World Screen

LONDON: Food Network has picked up Shaftesbury’s gastro-travel series From Spain With Love, to premiere in October across EMEA and in the U.K. in 2012. From Spain With Love will be available in more than 80 countries. The series follows …

LOS ANGELES: Lifetime has renewed its docu-series Dance Moms for a second season, ordering 13 new episodes. The series features Pittsburgh-based dance instructor Abby Lee Miller, her young students pushed to the limit while rehearsing for dance competitions and their …

SUFFOLK: Bomanbridge Media has been granted representation rights to New Dominion Pictures’ catalogue of more than 500 hours of factual and scripted drama programming for select territories. The Singapore-based company will distribute New Dominion’s catalogue throughout Asia, the Middle East …

LOS ANGELES: Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) is launching Super Soul Sunday, a three-hour Sunday morning programming block to premiere October 16. Super Soul Sunday features unseen episodes of Oprah’s Soul Series, a series of conversations between Oprah and some of …

MUNICH: SevenOne International is to showcase the dramedy Lilyhammer and the comedy Betty White’s Off Their Rockers, among other highlights, in Cannes. The U.S. feature film The Greening of Whitney Brown, National Geographic’s near-death experience series The Indestructibles, the docu-reality …

STOCKHOLM: Sparks Network and the local Japanese member Collaboration have signed up for the worldwide distribution rights for the format Jobs from Hell. ABC in Japan originally aired the series as a two-hour special and a second installment is currently …

LONDON: Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has inked a range of new deals for its key music formats, including Cover Me and The Sing-Off, which will be highlighted at MIPCOM. SPT’s 2waytraffic sold its format Cover Me to TV4 in Sweden …

CANNES: Foothill Entertainment has firmed up its relationship with investment partner Odyssey Pictures, with the two serving as the exclusive sponsors of the MIP Junior Networking Lounge this year, in addition to showcasing its roster of live-action reality shows and …

AMSTERDAM/LONDON/BURBANK: Further expanding its format business, Warner Bros. International Television Production has picked up a majority stake in BlazHoffski Holding B.V., the Belgian and Dutch non-scripted entertainment producer led by Taco Ketelaar. The investment also gives Warner Bros.—which last year …

LONDON: Leading off DRG’s drama slate is the upcoming Channel 4 series Top Boy, from the producers of the Oscar-winning film The Last King of Scotland. The four-part HD drama stars Ashley Walters (Five Days 2, Small Island), Kierston Wareing …