World Screen

TORONTO/CANNES: Shaftesbury Sales Company has firmed up deals for the TV movie Vacation with Derek with a number of international broadcasters, including Disney in territories such as Germany, Italy and Latin America.  The 90-minute made-for-TV movie is the follow up …

MIAMI: Univision Communications has named Jessica Rodriguez as the senior VP for Univision Cable Networks, where she will oversee the company’s expanding portfolio.  Based in Miami, Rodriguez will report to Cesar Conde, the president of Univision Networks. She has been …

STOCKHOLM: Collaboration Inc. and TV Tokyo have aligned for the fast-turnaround doc SOS Japan: Voices from the Destruction, which has already been picked up from Sparks Network by SVT in Sweden.  The documentary features the first-hand accounts from some of …

SÃO PAULO: Globo TV International has nine new titles within its GloboDOC franchise to launch in Cannes.  Among the highlights are Invisible Blanket, produced in HD. The doc shows the damage caused the the Greenhouse Effect. There’s also Brazil 2014: …

ATHENS: Among the recipients of Peabody Awards at the 70th annual event, honoring the best in electronic media, were HBO’s The Pacific and TNT’s Men of a Certain Age. Also scoring Peabody wins were Reel Injun: On the Trail of …

MODENA: The Licensing Machine (TLM), the licensing and media division of the Panini Group, is heading to Cannes with a range of children’s titles that "are not competing with each other and can fill the complete range of time slots …

PHILADELPHIA: In the run-up to the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, Comcast is providing customers with a range of content on demand and online at XfinityTV.com that focuses on the upcoming nuptials. Comcast customers throughout the month …

NEW YORK: The Hub has picked up an additional 13 episodes of the CGI animated series Strawberry Shortcake’s Berry Bitty Adventures for a second set to debut this fall. The series debuted last fall on The Hub and ranked number …

LONDON: The dance format Dancing Nation has been sold by Sony Pictures Television’s 2waytraffic to broadcasters in Brazil, Australia, Ukraine and the Philippines. In Brazil, TV Globo is set to air its version of the format later this year. In …

LONDON: As part of a new development alliance, ITN Productions and MercuryMedia are to develop four topical magazine formats for the international market, with the titles to be launched at MIPTV. The programs include N2K, focusing on all you need …