World Screen

CANNES: There are more than 65 exhibitor companies from Spain expected at this year’s MIPTV, with Audiovisual from Spain highlighting a range of Spanish independent film productions, animation, TV and multiplatform services. Coming with a slate of documentary titles and …

NEW YORK: A second season has been ordered for Starz Digital Media’s How It Should Have Ended, with the franchise expanding into the video-game genre in its new iteration. The series of online video spoofs parody the endings of popular …

TORONTO: Production has wrapped on From Spain with Love: with Annie Sibboney, the first series from Shaftesbury’s newly launched factual-entertainment division. The 13×30-minute series explores the diverse culinary culture of Spain through the eyes of host Annie Sibboney. The series …

LONDON: The new Italian unscripted entertainment channel You & Me, which launches on SKY Italia next month, has scooped up more than 150 hours of content from Zodiak Rights. The package includes four seasons of Channel 4’s Faking It, seasons …

LONDON/ABU DHABI: Driver Dan’s Story Train, a preschool series from 3Line Media in association with twofour54, heads into MIPTV with the momentum of a recommission from CBeebies. The show’s companion website recently received an award. The series itself was shortlisted in …

MIAMI: Telemundo’s bilingual cable network, mun2, is working with Telemundo Studios on a show that is being billed as a "dramela"—a dramatic series with its roots in the novela genre. RPM Miami is a 13-episode series that is slated to …

BUENOS AIRES: BBC Worldwide has scored its first local format commission in Chile, with MEGA TV on board for its own version of Make My Body Younger. Thirteen one-hour episodes will be co-produced by BBC Worldwide with its production partner, GP Media, as …

LONDON/BURBANK: Warner Bros. International Television Production (WBITVP) has secured the format and finished-program rights to upcoming television projects from British independent Outline Productions, kicking off with the BBC Two series Great British Food Revival. WBITVP will have the exclusive right to …

HELSINKI: FremantleMedia has named Marika Makaroff to the newly created post of creative director for its operations in Finland, upped from a role as managing director. Starting April 1, Makaroff takes on her new position, under which she will place …

SILVER SPRING: Every Friday starting April 1, Military Channel will present An Officer and a Movie, which pairs actor Lou Diamond Phillips with retired and active duty officers who lived through major battles and can shed light on conflicts depicted …