World Screen

COLOGNE/MUNICH: Studio100 Media and production company mielke nowak media have aligned to produce a TV stage show for the property Maya the Bee for the German market. The production will feature well-known actors and comedians. The stage show will be …

TORONTO: Breakthrough Entertainment’s new comedy Single White Spenny, starring Spencer Rice from Kenny vs. Spenny, is launching June 2 on Showcase Canada, taking a 9:30 p.m. slot as part of the network’s comedy lineup. Rice stars in this comedy of …

MAINZ: ZDF Enterprises has signed on as a co-production partner and international distributor on a new documentary about the engineers below the decks of the Titanic, to be available in time for the 100th anniversary of the ship’s sinking next year. …

LONDON: The three-part series Making Faces, which debuted earlier this month on BBC, is getting its international launch at DISCOP with Passion Distribution. The 3×1-hour program is produced by Landmark Films. Making Faces looks at babies and children with life-threatening …

EL SEGUNDO: Effective June 1, DIRECTV’s entertainment channel The 101 Network, the new home of the Glenn Close drama Damages, will be known as Audience Network. Accessible in 19.4 million homes, the channel aims to deliver content that can’t be found …

CULVER CITY: Carlos Gutierrez has been tapped to fill the newly created post of VP of business affairs and legal at the 3D network 3net, joining the team as of June 1. Gutierrez will be based at the network’s corporate …

BURBANK: 20th Century Fox Television and Warner Bros. Television will jointly produce an update of the classic animated comedy The Flintstones, to be helmed by Seth MacFarlane, for FOX’s 2013 schedule. Warner Bros. holds the rights to the The Flintstones …

DUBAI/BURBANK: Warner Bros.is teaming with Prodea Systems for the launch of a branded SVOD service on the NXT platform in the United Arab Emirates. WarnerTV will deliver on-demand access to series and movies from Warner Bros. Entertainment. The slate will …

SCOTTSDALE: The 3D TV market is poised to grow by 500 percent this year, rising to more than 300 million in 2015, In-Stat reports. “Over the next few years, a greater percentage of large-screen TV sets will ship with the 3D …

BURBANK/NEW YORK: ABC Entertainment Group’s president, Paul Lee, calls the network’s 2011-2012 grid "diverse and ambitious" with 13 new shows, including a Charlie’s Angels reboot and the 1960s-set Pan Am, joining several returning dramas and comedies. “We’re thrilled to be launching …