World Screen

MUNICH: SevenOne International has sold the U.S. Showtime series The Borgias, featuring Jeremy Irons, to the Swiss free-TV channel 3+. The Borgias, from Academy Award-winner Neil Jordan, is set in 15th-century Italy at the height of the Renaissance. It chronicles …

TORONTO: BBC Worldwide Canada has licensed the U2 documentary From the Sky Down to Super Channel in Canada. From the Sky Down became the first documentary to ever open the Toronto International Film Festival. The doc marks the 20th anniversary …

LONDON: Entertainment One (eOne) Family has secured a deal for Peppa Pig with Chellomedia’s Central European cartoon channel Minimax. Minimax will launch Peppa Pig seasons one and two in December to be broadcast in the local languages of Hungarian, Romanian, …

LOS ANGELES/TORONTO/LONDON: Entertainment One (eOne) has named Sally Caplan as the managing director of the company’s international film division. Caplan will be based in eOne’s London office, continuing to expand the company’s international film division through new partnerships with producers, …

LONDON: DLT Entertainment has made Michaela Hennessy-Vass, the former comedy commissioning editor at ITV, its executive editor. Hennessy-Vass will report to Don Taffner Jr., the president of DLT. Prior to joining DLT, she spent 20 years at ITV, becoming comedy …

LONDON: A German version of the Disney website Club Penguin is launching today, becoming its fifth local-language site. Club Penguin sites have more than 150 million registered users in more than 190 countries, and the German version will be located …

LOS ANGELES/LONDON: The FX freshman hit American Horror Story delivered a total of 3.2 million viewers in 59 countries through its FOX International Channels (FIC) rollout. The series, from Ryan Murphy (Nip/Tuck, Glee) and Glee co-creator Brad Falchuk, delivered an estimated …

MADRID: The Spanish production outfit Veralia is working on a new version of El gran juego de la oca, a classic game show from the ’90s, to be launched on four channels in Latin America. Stefano Torrisi, the director of …

LONDON: Optomen International has sold 50 hours of programming featuring Gordon Ramsay, Heston Blumenthal and Mary Portas to BBC Worldwide Channels in Asia, Central Europe and Africa. BBC Lifestyle Asia picked up retail specialist Mary Portas’ latest series, Secret Shopper, …

LOS ANGELES: Chelsea Handler has signed a new deal with E! Entertainment that sees her continuing to host and executive produce the late night talk show Chelsea Lately through 2014, along with firming up an agreement with the network for …