World Screen

MUNICH: The pay-TV service Sky Italia is the latest broadcaster on board for Tom Fontana’s Borgia, with the sale secured by Beta Film. The 12×1-hour series focuses on the scandal-ridden Renaissance papal clan. The show, budgeted at $30 million, is …

NEW YORK: Broadcasters throughout Europe and Asia have signed up for programming from AETN International following the company’s MIPTV outing. In Belgium, VMMA went for AETN’s Lifetime Movie Package, along with the series Most Extreme Airports, Heavy and a fifth …

MUNICH: The sales closed by Telepool at MIPTV cover categories such as series, feature films, family entertainment, TV movies and documentaries. The series Alarm for Cobra 11 sold to Hungary, with RTL Klub picking up season 15, as did Nova …

LUCERNE: Submissions are now being accepted for entries to the Rose d’Or Festival’s 51st competition, which now features 13 categories for the Golden Rose awards. The deadline for entries is December 31. Submissions span 13 categories, including the newly introduced …

For seven out of the last eight TV seasons, CBS has been the most-watched broadcast network in the U.S. With a string of lucrative hits, including NCIS and the hit comedy The Big Bang Theory, CBS’s programming team, led by …

Digital terrestrial television, whether free or pay, is offering audiences across Europe a better viewing experience. Terminology sometimes gets in the way of clarity in the tele­vision business and this is probably the case with digital terrestrial television (DTT), a …

From documentaries to reality series to lifestyle programming, factual product was in demand at MIPTV. MIPDOC alone welcomed 700-plus registered attendees, with more than 1,360 programs available for screening, marking the largest digital library of documentaries in the world. TV …

A comparatively quiet week for kids’ TV deal-making, MIPTV nonetheless witnessed a host of key announcements. TV Kids Weekly recaps what you might have missed. There weren’t that many big kids’ brands on display on the Croisette last week—partly a …

It was a busy week for formats at MIPTV last week. TV Formats Weekly recaps the flurry of deals and discerns the latest trends in the market. Game shows are back in a big way. That was the consensus among …

LONDON: Rob Clark, the president of worldwide entertainment at FremantleMedia, talks about the trend toward “feel-good” formats, the continuing success of the creative alliance with Fuji Television and the power of the company’s library of classic shows.