World Screen

NEW YORK: A fourth season of Merlin is headed to Syfy for a 2012 premiere via a deal with FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME). With its third season, Merlin averaged 1.93 million total viewers. This marks a gain of 12 percent on …

SYDNEY: A second season of the travel-adventure reality series The Amazing Race Australia has been commissioned by Seven Network. The multi-Emmy Award-winning series is a Disney format produced in conjunction with Active TV. There are currently three episodes remaining until …

PARIS: TF1 has firmed up an agreement with Sony Pictures Television for the studio’s series, TV movies and feature films to air across the French group’s channels. The deal also covers rights for new-media distribution. Through this agreement, films such …

SAN DIEGO: Ben Silverman’s Electus and publisher BOOM! Studios have teamed up for the original graphic-novel series Fanboys vs. Zombies, being launched at this year’s Comic-Con International. The graphic novels follow a group of friends who are making their annual …

After spending a number of years at Argentina’s Telefe International, Gonzalo Cilley set up Resonant TV to identify and develop scripted properties with international potential. He discusses with TV Formats Weekly what have been some of his strategies to help …

LOS ANGELES: Howie Mandel’s Alevy Productions and Angel City Factory, a member of the Banijay Group, are teaming up to bring the comedy format Celebrity Stand-Up, which debuts today in Denmark, to the U.S. The concept sees celebrities create an …

LOS ANGELES: Charlie Sheen is to star in the new series Anger Management, a sitcom loosely based on the 2003 comedy film of the same name, with Lionsgate Television as producer and Debmar-Mercury distributing the show. Sheen will retain a …

LOS ANGELES: The scripted series Single Ladies has been given a second-season order from VH1, coming just ahead of the show’s season one finale, to air on August 8. The show has been averaging 2.8 million total viewers during premiere, …

NEW YORK: Adding to its slate of original reality programming, Syfy has greenlit the docu-series Monster Man, which goes behind the scenes of a famed Hollywood monster prop workshop. Gurney Productions, behind Syfy’s Haunted Collector, has received an order for …

LONDON: Channel 4 has secured the U.K. premiere rights to five new series from Twentieth Century Fox, among them the political thriller Homeland and the comedy New Girl, which will air on E4. Homeland, which stars Claire Danes, Damien Lewis, …