World Screen

LONDON: Emma Swain, who has been serving as the BBC’s acting controller of knowledge commissioning since February, has been formally appointed to the role. Swain is responsible for BBC knowledge’s strategy across factual programming, leading the commissioning teams and guiding …

MUNICH: Your Family Entertainment (YFE) has brought on digital publisher Auryn Inc. to create games based on select properties for the iPad and other tablet devices. Shadow of the Elves, Sherm and Ric the Raven are among the titles set …

BURBANK: As part of ABC Family’s annual Campus Crush programming event, the new two-hour original movie Teen Spirit, about the transformation of a shy wallflower into the ultimate prom queen, is set for a network launch on August 7. Teen …

LOS ANGELES: A new daytime talk show is on the planner from CBS, to be led by Jeff Probst, the Emmy Award-winning host of the reality hit Survivor. The as-yet-untitled series is expected to start in fall 2012. The CBS …

NEW YORK: Sunday’s live premiere of the BET Awards garnered 7.7 million total viewers, making the event the number one awards show on cable this year. The BET Awards ’11 rank as the number two telecast in network history, only …

UNIVERSAL CITY: Two new detectives have been cast as series regulars for NBC’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Kelli Giddish (Chase) and Danny Pino (Cold Case). Giddish starred in the NBC drama Chase as U.S. Marshal Annie Frost. She …

BERLIN: EuroArts Music International and NHK have produced a charity concert to benefit the March 11 earthquake and tsunami victims in Japan, and will start worldwide TV and DVD distribution of the event, donating the revenue to the Japanese Red …

LONDON: 4Kids Entertainment International’s animated series Dinosaur King has added P&R to its licensing program. Dinosaur King merch, including sticker albums, activity books, candy, chips and juice, will now be available across Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Croatia and Slovenia …

MIAMI: Venezuelan actors Maria Gabriela de Faria and Willy Martin have joined the cast of the Nickelodeon Latin America telenovela Grachi, which has a second season in the works. Grachi’s second season will be shot in Miami in July and …

NEW YORK: USA Network has promoted Vida Bauer to VP of program and production operations and administration, and Rebecca Rhodes to VP of program scheduling. Bauer started at USA in 1988 and joined the department in 2001. She previously held …