World Screen

LOS ANGELES: The new ten-part docu-comedy Rhett & Link: Commercial Kings, based on the web series I Love Local Commercials, is to launch on IFC on June 24. The show follows lifelong best friends Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal as they …

PREMIUM: Elizabeth Guider speaks with a number of buyers, including ProSiebenSat.1’s Rüdiger Böss and SRF’s Stefano Semeria, about the new shows presented by the Hollywood studios this week. "Dinosaurs are always great," is how Rudiger Böss, ProSiebenSat.1’s senior VP of …

NEW YORK: Iginio Straffi, the founder and CEO of Rainbow S.p.A., talks about the new MagicLand theme park opening later this week, as well as current feature-film projects and more.     Taking the easy route has never been Straffi’s strategy. …

NEW YORK: Verizon has added an additional five Spanish-language channels to its FiOS TV lineup: CentroAmerica TV, Latele Novela Network, Pasiones, Teleamazones Internacional and Vme Kids. CentroAmerica TVis dedicated to Central Americans in the U.S., with morning shows, comedy series, …

SILVER SPRING: TV One has appointed Wonya Lucas, who joins from Discovery Channel and Science Channel, as president and CEO, effective August 8. Lucas was previously the executive VP and COO for Discovery Channel and Science Channel, where she was responsible for strategy …

NEW YORK: The Korean TV show Superstar K, a singing competition that airs on the Asian pop-culture channel Mnet, is opening its audition process to U.S. hopefuls for the first time ever, with a talent search to be held in …

LOS ANGELES: Toonzone Studios’ 52×11-minute YooHoo & Friends has been snapped up by CSC Media Group’s POP channel in the U.K. and is set to begin airing daily in 2012. The series is produced by Toonzone and financed by the Animation Development Company; it …

WASHINGTON, D.C.: The three-part series Live Like An Animal from Tigress Productions is to premiere globally in all Nat Geo Wild territories in 2012. The show follows an intrepid team who will occupy human-scale recreations of some of the animal …

NEW YORK: Spike TV has picked up six episodes of the original half-hour unscripted series Flipping Foreclosures, set for a fall premiere. Flipping Foreclosures features the entrepreneurial duo of Doug Clark and Mike Baird, who turn around foreclosed properties. In …

LOS ANGELES: Camelot producer GK-tv and Gale Anne Hurd’s Valhalla Entertainment are developing a period drama, Port Royal, for FX and FOX International Channels. Based on an original idea by Hurd, the show is set in the late 17th century on …