World Screen

LONDON, August 17: FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) has announced several new appointments as it looks to boost its home entertainment and archive sales businesses. David Bealing has been appointed to the newly created position of commercial director, home entertainment. In this …

LONDON, August 17: British independent Seven Stones Media has been asked by BBC Two to create a 10×30-minute prime-time version of its daytime series Return to Tuscany. The show will run in a 7 p.m. slot, beginning this fall. Sold …

LONDON, August 17: DLT Entertainment has received a commission from BBC One for a 9×30-minute seventh season of My Family, along with 50-minute Christmas special. Through its sixth series, the sitcom regularly achieved a viewing share of 30 percent or …

LONDON, August 17: UKTV Style has inked a deal with the BBC and Haymarket Exhibitions to relaunch The Clothes Show two decades since it first aired on the British pubcaster. The channel has commissioned Shine Limited, in association with Giant …

PALO ALTO, August 17: A slate of programs from National Geographic are now available on a download-to-rent basis on the Open Media Network. OMN boasts sharp DVD-quality video and speedy downloads. It has secured the Nat Geo titles via a …

MIAMI, August 17: On August 26, Telemundo will launch the new youth competition Quinceañera for talented 15-year-old girls. The show gives a young girl a chance celebrate her 15th birthday with an unforgettable party, and grooms her to become an …

MUNICH, August 17: ProSiebenSat.1 Group’s international channel, ProSiebenSat.1 Welt, is expanding its soccer programming and has picked up the North American pay-TV rights to Bundesliga matches. ProSiebenSat.1 Welt acquired the Bundesliga rights from sportsman media group, which markets the international …

BURBANK, August 17: The Jetix programming block on Toon Disney in the U.S. is set to launch the new original series Yin Yang Yo! with a marathon on September 4. The 18-hour programming event will run from 6 a.m. to …

NEW YORK, August 17: The New York Television Festival kicks off September 12 with a premiere of Kidnapped, Sony Pictures Television’s buzzed-about series for NBC that makes its broadcast premiere on September 20 at 10 p.m. The show, set and …

NEW YORK, August 17: The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric will become the first network evening news broadcast to be simulcast live on the Internet when it launches September 5 at 6:30 p.m. In addition, the broadcast will be …