World Screen

MIAMI: Latin Media Corp is to unveil its third production, Temptations of Love, a co-production with Malaysia’s WRC, at MIPCOM. Temptations of Love tells the story of a doctor and his sons, each with very different personalities and lifestyles. The …

BURBANK: ABC Family is making its foray into the world of music with the movie musical Elixir, which features Jane Seymour, Chelsea Kane and Sara Paxton, among others. Seymour (Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman) plays Harper, who used to be one …

NEW YORK: Talking Dead, AMC’s first live-after show, will serve as a platform for discussion of the network’s original series The Walking Dead.   The half-hour episodes, to be produced by Michael Davies’ Embassy Row, will be hosted by Chris …

LOS ANGELES: FOX has ordered the new drama series Touch, created and written by Heroes‘ Tim Kring and starring 24‘s Kiefer Sutherland.   The 13-episode series will join the FOX lineup in spring 2012. The pilot was executive produced by …

PREMIUM: The Modern Times Group’s president and CEO, Hans-Holger Albrecht, talks to World Screen Newsflash about operating successful over-the-top services as well as thriving pay- and free-TV businesses. WS: In Scandinavia you launched Viaplay, the market’s first over-the-top Internet on-demand …

PREMIUM: The senior VP and general manager of Comcast Interactive Services, Matthew Strauss, tells World Screen Newsflash how Comcast’s new generation of products and services is redefining the cable experience, boosting subscriptions and delighting subscribers. Comcast, the largest cable operator …

MADRID: Four new format titles will be on offer from Spain’s Phileas Productions at MIPCOM, among them The Crazy Cow and Celebrity Surprise Party. The Crazy Cow is from the creators of The 20 Little Piggy Banks and Involution: The …

NEW YORK: Watch clips and access detailed information on hundreds of new preschool, kids’ and tween shows on offer at MIP Junior on WorldScreenings.com. WorldScreenings.com allows you to search for a show by company, title, keyword, genre and duration. Clips can be watched …

LONDON: Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has secured a range of format deals for The Dr. Oz Show in Latin America, Russia, France, Armenia and the Middle East. The medical talk-show format, represented internationally by SPT’s 2waytraffic, will be locally produced …

NEW YORK: CTV’s Mike Cosentino, Channel 5’s Jeff Ford, Sky’s Sarah Wright and Televisa’s Carlos Sandoval will receive the inaugural World Screen Content Trendsetter Award, in partnership with MIPCOM, at the end of the Acquisition Super Panel: What do Buyers …