World Screen

LOS ANGELES: MTV Latin America has started production on its second telenovela format, Popland, which tells the story of one girl’s journey from small-town life to the big-city world. The series will be shot on set and on location in …

TORONTO: The summer schedule of Global features a number of Canadian original productions, including Combat Hospital and Rookie Blue. Combat Hospital (formerly known as The Hot Zone) looks at the lives of resident doctors and nurses at a hospital in …

LOS ANGELES: James Cameron’s Academy Award-winning blockbuster Titanic will be theatrically re-released in 3D next year, in time for the 100th anniversary of the ship’s sinking. Paramount Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox and Lightstorm Entertainment jointly announced the re-release of the film, …

LONDON, May 19: RDF Television’s hit Shipwrecked is set to return to the U.K.’s Channel 4 with a new 15×1-hour series slated for a late 2011 broadcast. After a two-year hiatus, the show’s eighth season will strand contestants in the …

NEW YORK: Univision Communications, which is planning to launch three new networks—devoted to sports, news and novelas—has unveiled a broad slate of original content for the 2011-2012 season, including a new strand of documentaries and additional co-pros with Venevision Productions. …

BURBANK: The movie My Babysitter’s a Vampire, which was produced by Fresh TV and distributed by FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME), is set to premiere on Disney Channel on June 10, ushering in a series that is scheduled to air on June 27. …

NEW YORK: This summer, EPIX is launching the original documentary The Captains, focused on the Star Trek franchise, as the centerpiece to its Shatnerpalooza programming event, which will feature a marathon of William Shatner’s movie and TV projects. Shatnerpalooza will …

LONDON: Lord Patten, the chairman of the BBC Trust, is to deliver the Royal Television Society’s (RTS) Fleming Memorial Lecture at the Royal Institution of Great Britain on July 6. His lecture, The BBC: Old Values, New Technologies, will set out …

SÃO PAULO: Uruguay’s Teledoce has acquired the second season of Internal Affairs and The Cleaning Lady from Globo TV International. Internal Affairs is an investigative series based on a behind-the-scenes look at police charged with the duty of investigating their own …

NEW YORK: Among the new series scheduled for The CW’s fall season are the dramas Ringer, featuring Buffy alum Sarah Michelle Gellar in her return to TV, and Hart of Dixie, starring The O.C.‘s Rachel Bilson. Hart of Dixie features …