World Screen

NEW YORK: Lesli Rotenberg, the senior VP of children’s media at PBS, discusses the importance of connecting today’s youth with age-appropriate and developmentally appropriate media content, highlighting new innovations coming down the pipeline.   At the start of the year, …

TOKYO: The historical drama Princess Atsu has been sold by NHK Enterprises to Romania’s Antena TV Group for its Euforia Lifestyle TV channel. The 50-episode period drama tells the story of a woman who rose to become the wife of a …

NAIROBI: MTV Networks Africa has re-upped its partnership with the Staying Alive Foundation, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the Partnership for an HIV-Free Generation (HFG) to produce a second season of the drama Shuga in Kenya.  …

PARIS: The documentary Twice, a collaboration of Europe Images International and NHK that spotlights a survivor of both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, is set to air on France 2. The documentary has been in production from Europe Images …

NEW YORK: Denis Leary is developing and co-writing a half-hour pilot adapted from the upcoming Channel 4 comedy Sirens, about a group of young paramedics, for USA Network. Leary is writing the pilot with Bob Fisher (Wedding Crashers, Traffic Light). Both …

NEW YORK: Spike TV has ordered a third season of Auction Hunters, with 26 fresh episodes slated, including a first-ever live broadcast. The show will again follow Allen Haff and Ton Jones as they traverse the country in search of …

SEOUL/LONDON: South Korean media group CJ Entertainment & Media has licensed the rights to launch its own version of BBC Worldwide’s hit motoring show Top Gear on its men’s lifestyle channel XTM. The Korean version will be fronted by former race …

LOS ANGELES: Building out the hit Basketball Wives franchise, VH1 has ordered the spinoff Basketball Wives: Los Angeles, along with giving the greenlight to a new dating show, Siggy Flicker (working title). Premiering August 29, Basketball Wives: Los Angeles is …

LONDON: The daily CBS chat show The Talk is to make its U.K. premiere exclusively on the female-skewing lifestyle channel DivaTV on July 4. DivaTV acquired the exclusive U.K. broadcast rights from CBS Studios International. The Talk is hosted by …

MUNICH: Belgium’s vtm has commissioned a local production of Danni Lowinski in a deal with SevenOne International, to be produced for the network by Sultan Sushi, a subsidiary of the ProSiebenSat.1 company Red Arrow Entertainment. The series will launch on …