World Screen

NEW YORK: A total of 11 new original series, accounting for a 20-percent gain in original programming hours, along with five returning hits, have been announced for the Bravo schedule. The additions include a series with Flipping Out‘s Jeff Lewis, …

TORONTO: The addition of former Senator Jerry S. Grafstein to the board of directors at Knightscove Media Corporation is the latest effort in the company’s grand plan to become a family-entertainment powerhouse across a variety of platforms, Leif Bristow, president …

MADRID: Two of the stars of the hit RTVE series Love in Difficult Times, Manu Baqueiro (Marcelino) and Itziar Miranda (Manolita), will be on hand in Cannes to help celebrate the show’s six-year success. Airing on La 1 in Spain, …

LONDON: Nic McNeilis, co-developer and executive producer of The Million Pound Drop Live, has been tapped for ITV Studios’ team of entertainment creative directors. McNeilis was previously the executive producer at Endemol. Starting in May, he joins a team at ITV Studios …

LONDON: A fourth season of the hit fantasy drama Merlin is set for France, Germany, Australia, Norway and Denmark. The renewals come as production gets under way on season four in Cardiff and France. The show will launch in its …

MUNICH: The format slate of SevenOne International features the Dick de Rijk game shows You Deserve It and Money Grabbers. You Deserve It, which is currently piloted for ABC, features contestants playing on behalf of a beneficiary. The contestants potentially …

LOS ANGELES: Lifetime Television has renewed One Born Every Minute for a second season, with ten new hour-long episodes headed to the network. The show takes an in-depth look at life inside the maternity ward at a hospital in Ohio. …

LONDON: Endemol’s The Money Drop is headed to Brazil, the Netherlands and Italy, with 17 territories having now signed up for local versions of the game show. Canale 5 in Italy has commissioned the show for prime time. In the …

LONDON: The prime-time quiz show Secret Fortune has scored ten new production deals, secured through DRG. The format will be produced locally in France with Starling, as well as in Australia by Shine, in Finland by Nordisk Film & TV, …

LONDON: CAKE has wrapped up a new round of deals on Coolabi’s animated preschool show Poppy Cat. Among the new broadcasters that have signed up for the 52×11-minute series are Al Jazeera Children’s Channel, e-vision (U.A.E), SVT (Sweden), S4C (Wales), …