World Screen

BURBANK: Andie MacDowell and Erica Dasher star in the new ABC Family series Jane By Design, premiering January 3. The one-hour series is about a regular high school girl who hides her true identity in order to work as an …

LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK: Debmar-Mercury and ITV Studios America are bringing back The Jeremy Kyle Show for the 2012-13 season, with the syndicated talk show cleared in more than 50 percent of the U.S. Renewals for the FOX and Sinclair stations bring …

MONACO: Monaco Mediax, which organizes such industry events as the Monte-Carlo Television Festival, Imagina, SportelMonaco and SportelAsia, has promoted Laurent Puons to the role of general manager, as David Tomatis leaves his CEO duties to take on a new senior …

BRUSSELS: Former Zodiak USA exec Ludo Poppe’s new outfit EcchoMedia has landed two deals for the Peking Express format, which is returning to Net5 in the Netherlands for a fifth season and M6 in France for an eighth. EcchoMedia’s EcchoLine …

NEW DELHI: Discovery Turbo, the 24-hour male-skewing channel dedicated to speed, has expanded its reach in India with a launch on the DTH platform Reliance Digital TV. The service is already available in India on Dish TV, Tata Sky, Airtel Digital …

NEW YORK: CBS has ordered 25th and 26th editions of the hit reality competition Survivor for the 2012-13 broadcast season. Jeff Probst will return as host and executive producer for the new installments. He has been the host of Survivor …

WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which would punish companies for posting pirated content online, has drawn opposition from Internet giants such as Yahoo, Google, Facebook and the Consumer Electronics Association, saying that it would give the government …

NEW YORK: A recent Nielsen survey shows that the Apple iPad is the most desired consumer electronic among kids 6 to 12 for the holiday season. The findings are consistent with U.S. kids’ 2010 wishlists, with the iPad even increasing …

LOS ANGELES: Endemol Studios is working with ABC Studios to develop versions of the Dutch drama Penoza and the Australian series Spirited for ABC. Endemol’s NL Film &TV’s Penoza, penned by Pieter Bart Korthuis and produced by Alain de Levita for …

NEW YORK: The NPR radio quiz show Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! is to make its U.S. television debut on BBC America during the 2011 Year in Review special airing December 23. The year-end special will also run on NPR …