World Screen

MIAMI: Caracol Televisión and Sony Pictures Television (SPT) have aligned for a three-year co-production agreement, focused on prime-time series to air in Colombia. SPT and Caracol will co-produce two prime-time series per year, over the course of the three-year partnership. …

BUENOS AIRES: Telefe International is making a package of series and mini-series available for streaming on Netflix, which is expanding to 43 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Internet-based subscription service is already available to more than 25 …

NEW YORK: Adriana Cisneros, Barry Diller, Leslie Moonves and Anne Sweeney are among the executives set to take part in The Paley Center for Media’s International Councel that will convene September 14 to 16 in Los Angeles. The 18th meeting …

LOS ANGELES: The Gurin Company has signed a deal with Todd Goldman and his company David & Goliath to develop and produce four original series, including game shows and an unscripted project. Goldman’s David & Goliath is behind the clothing …

BUCHAREST: HISTORY has secured carriage on the Romtelecom platform in Romania, expanding its current reach in the country. HISTORY is programmed and operated in Romania by AETN UK. It offers such hit shows as Pawn Stars, Ice Road Truckers and …

LONDON: A new round of commissions have been made by BBC Worldwide Channels for its portfolio of networks, with 112 hours of new content coming for 2011, including the murder mystery Dripping in Chocolate. In 2010, BBC Worldwide Channels commissioned 34 hours, …

BETHPAGE: Cablevision Systems Corp. has unveiled a new Optimum App for the iPhone and iPod touch that brings more than 300 channels of live TV and thousands of VOD titles to the devices, following on the launch of its dedicated …

PREMIUM: Lisa Erspamer, the executive VP of production and development at OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, tells World Screen Newsflash that the cable channel’s fall schedule is "looking very bright and shiny."   Erspamer, a 15-year veteran of Winfrey’s Harpo Productions, …

While beauty, fashion and celeb-reality have been dominant on The Style Network’s schedule, the channel recently launched a documentary initiative that brings to the forefront issues that are often overlooked or misrepresented in the mainstream media. "Style Exposed brings out …

A U.K. television institution, the car-based Top Gear originally launched on the BBC in 1977. The show was relaunched in 2002, incorporating many of the elements that make it popular today, including the Stig. "Presenter Jeremy Clarkson and exec producer …