World Screen

LOS ANGELES, September 21: Gary Scott Thompson, the creator of the NBC drama Las Vegas, is working on two new dramas, one for CBS and the other for NBC. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Protect and Serve for CBS is …

NORWALK, September 21: CABLEready has sold its real-crime investigation series Accident Investigator to Hungary and the Czech Republic’s Spektrum Channel, Sweden’s TV4 Fakta, and Thailand’s UBC. The host of the show, Rusty Haight, entered the Guinness Book of World Records …

TORONTO, September 21: Portfolio Entertainment has promoted Aron Dunn to the position of manager of creative development. Dunn joined Portfolio Entertainment in January as a development executive. In his new role, he will oversee the acquisition of new intellectual properties …

BURBANK, September 20: The Walt Disney Company predicts it will sell some $50 million worth of movies in the first year of its partnership with Apple Computer’s iTunes Music Store. In less than a week since Disney made available movies …

CENTURY CITY, September 20: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (TCFHE) is launching FOXFAITH, a new branded distribution label to house its growing portfolio of faith-based programming. This new brand is targeted at Christian retailers as well as churches and ministry …

BEVERLY HILLS, September 20: Liberty Media Corporation has completed the first stage of its acquisition of IDT's entertainment division, including a stake in Stan Lee's POW! Entertainment Inc. Now IDT and Liberty will work together in the distribution and development …

HONG KONG, September 20: Indonesian broadcaster Indosiar (PT Indosiar Visual Mandiri) will premiere a locally produced version of Sony Pictures Television International’s (SPTI) U.S. sitcom The Nanny on September 25, 2006. The Indonesian show, called Si Neny, is SPTI’s first …

LONDON, September 20: FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) and the Canadian independent producer Insight Productions Company have concluded a mutual first look agreement. The deal will grant FME a first look at Insight Productions projects; while Insight will have the first option …

LOS ANGELES, September 20: Actor Will Ferrell’s production company is branching out into television with a comedy for HBO called P.E. Ferrell and Adam McKay, his partner in Gary Sanchez Prods, reportedly shopped the series around to various broadcast and …

NEW YORK, September 20: MTVN Kids and Family Group is making its new Mr. Meaty series available on iTunes prior to the show’s September 22 premiere on Nickelodeon. Mr. Meaty is Nickelodeon’s absurd new comedy/puppet series set in a mall …