World Screen

MONTE-CARLO: The winners of the Monte-Carlo Television Festival’s Golden Nymph Awards have been announced, with CSI: Crime Scene Investigation taking the international audience award for best drama, while Desperate Housewives took the comedy win. The international TV audience award for …

LONDON: The upcoming Sky Atlantic drama Hit and Miss, the latest project to come out of the development pact between FremantleMedia Enterprises and Paul Abbott (Shameless, State of Play), is set to star film and television actress Chloë Sevigny. FME has …

PREMIUM: Central European Media Enterprises (CME) is aiming to build up a big library of premium international titles for its new Voyo video-on-demand brand, its head of new media, Robert Berza, tells Jay Stuart. But the group, which is a …

MIAMI: Among the properties Exim Licensing Group is highlighting for the upcoming licensing show in Las Vegas is BondiBond, which it co-produced with Ledafilms and Mondo TV Spain. BondiBand tells the story of six rock students, who become superheros when …

ATLANTA: The highly anticipated TNT original series Falling Skies, due for a U.S. debut on June 19, is set to roll out to more than 75 international markets, including Germany, Brazil, Mexico, Spain, Canada, South Korea and the U.K., beginning this …

LOS ANGELES: Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball Kai have secured additional broadcast deals in Latin America via a new round of sales from Toei Animation. Cartoon Network Latin America is taking episodes 1 to 54 of Dragon Ball Kai. …

BOGOTÁ: Colombia’s Caracol Televisión has entered into a cooperation agreement with Chinese state broadcaster CCTV. Carlos Alejandro Pérez, the president of Caracol Televisión, made the announcement at a press conference in Colombia this week together with Gao Zhengyue, China’s Ambassador …

NEW YORK: Classic Media is partnering with Mattel to roll out a new consumer-products program for Masters of the Universe to celebrate the brand’s 30th anniversary in 2012. The new line will encompass apparel (t-shirts, sweatshirts, thermals, track jackets and …

TORONTO: Breakthrough Entertainment has sold the factual-entertainment series Books Into Films to HBO Central Europe, while also securing deals on an additional 375 hours of programming across Eastern Europe. Books Into Films looks at how certain literary works have been …

UNIVERSAL CITY: NBC and Columbia Records have signed an agreement for the recording rights to the soundtrack of the network’s new musical drama Smash, with series star Katharine McPhee scoring a solo deal.  Smash launches midseaon on NBC, taking a Monday …