World Screen

LONDON: Entertainment One (eOne) Family has picked up the second season of the Amberwood Entertainment and One Animation preschool show Rob the Robot. The new deal extends eOne’s existing TV and home-entertainment agreement with Amberwood for season one. eOne is …

CANNES: Among the newest titles to join the Fun World Media catalogue are Superior Cage Combat and the adventure-travel series Season on the Edge. The 12 three-hour Superior Cage Combat event can, which can also be broadcast live, features a rapidly …

DALLAS: Customers of AT&T’s U-verse TV can now access movies and original programming from Starz and Encore anytime through the U-verse website.  More than 500 titles are available on U-verse Online as part of customers’ existing subscriptions. This includes Starz …

LOS ANGELES: Terra Nova, The Playboy Club and New Girl lead off Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution’s MIPCOM slate. In Terra Nova, an ordinary family travels back in time to prehistoric earth in an experiment aimed at saving the human …

NEW YORK: The classic sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show is joining the TV Land lineup on October 3, exactly 50 years since its 1961 debut on CBS. To celebrate the golden anniversary, TV Land will be airing 36 “best …

CANNES: Paul Johnson, CEO and executive producer of Tuvalu Entertainment, tells World Screen Newsflash about how the company is using top-notch creative partnerships to deliver high-quality content. "Tuvalu Entertainment specializes in premium film, TV and digital productions created in partnerships," …

ATLANTA: TBS has ordered the half-hour comedy pilot Sullivan and Son, which stars Steve Byrne and is executive produced by Vince Vaughn (The Break Up) and Peter Billingsley (Iron Man). The project is from Vaughn’s Wild West Picture Show Productions …

CANNES: MIPCOM delegates can be among the first to view Marc Dorcel’s new glasses-free 3D technology, also called autostereoscopy, done in collaboration with Stereogram. Marc Dorcel, which unveiled full 3D HD videos at MIPTV 2010, is offering a preview of …

NEW YORK: Bob Baskerville, the general manager of Scripps Networks International, tells World Screen Newsflash about the company’s British success and its plans for further expanding the reach of its channels over the next year. WS: What have been the …

CANNES: DCH Capital is investing $100 million in a fund to support media companies, co-production projects and media hub infrastructure. The DCH Media Fund will be based in Singapore, focusing on the funding of production companies and/or their projects, along …