World Screen

LONDON, July 20: Granada International has licensed a number of its British mini-series to broadcasters in France, including TF1, which opted for Walk Away and I Stumble. M6 picked up If I Had You and Kindness of Strangers, while Canal …

LONDON, July 20: Darlow Smithson Productions has been commissioned by Channel 4 and Discovery Channel in the U.S. to produce a two-hour docudrama on the 1993 siege in Waco, Texas. Inside Waco will chronicle what happened on April 19, 1993, …

LONDON, July 20: HIT Entertainment has inked ten new broadcasting deals across Europe for its portfolio of preschool brands, including agreements with the BBC, YLE and SVT. In France, the Disney Channel took Bob the Builder, Barney and Thomas & …

VANCOUVER, July 20: Production company Shavick Entertainment has acquired OUTtv, a Canadian gay and lesbian television network, with plans to relaunch the channel under a new name and with a slate of new programming. Shavick acquired a majority interest in …

LONDON, July 20: Five in the U.K. has secured the free-TV and digital terrestrial rights to The Nine, slated to launch on ABC this fall, from Warner Bros. International Television Distribution. Vanessa Brookman, Five’s controller of acquisitions, described the show …

VANCOUVER/NEWARK, July 20: IDT Entertainment, which is in the process of being sold to Liberty Media, has inked a deal to sell its 62-percent stake in Canadian CGI outfit Mainframe Entertainment to the parent company of Rainmaker Animation & Visual …

NEW YORK, July 20: Early next year, Sundance Channel will launch a weekly three-hour prime-time programming block serving up content on environmental issues. “Once in awhile forces converge and affect social change,” said Robert Redford, the channel’s founder. “For some, …

HONG KONG, July 20: CASBAA has joined forces with FIFA and Hong Kong Cable Television to initiate legal proceedings against a number of public venues for allegedly airing unlicensed pay-TV broadcasts of the World Cup. CASBAA, representing the interests of …

BURBANK, July 20: Smoke House, the new television and film production venture set up by George Clooney and Grant Heslov, has inked a long-term production and development agreement with Warner Bros. Pictures and Warner Bros. Television. Clooney and Heslov collaborated …

LONDON, July 20: BBC Two’s fall season unveiled today includes Tsunami—The Aftermath, a fictional drama set in Thailand that is based on first-hand research and interviews. "The 2004 Asian tsunami shocked and devastated the world, touching the lives of people …