World Screen

NEW YORK: Spike TV has given a 20-episode order to Repo Games, a game show from Jersey Shore producers 495 Productions, and a 10-episode order to Bar Rescue. In Bar Rescue, which goes into production in April, Jon Taffer, a leading …

LOS ANGELES: At last night’s Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards, the cast of Boardwalk Empire was recognized for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a drama series, while Modern Family took the same top honor on the comedy side. Individual …

DOHA/CAIRO: Al Jazeera Network’s Cairo bureau was closed by the Egyptian government over the weekend, and the international news channel’s license to broadcast in the country has been revoked. Al Jazeera had been on the front lines covering the protests …

SYDNEY: The DaVincibles from SLR Productions has secured a slot on Channel 7 in Australia, where it will debut in February. The show will air Saturday mornings at 11:30 a.m. from February 5 to April 9. The 52×11-minute animated series …

NEW YORK: Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood, a reality series centered on the husband and wife team of Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott, has made its way to WE tv in Asia for a February 3 debut. The show …

HONG KONG: FOXTEL’s Kim Williams, Astro’s Rohana Rozhan, MNC Group’s Hary Tanoesoedibjo and Tata Sky’s Harit Nagpal are among the executives slated to speak at Media Partners Asia’s second-annual Asia Pacific Pay-TV Operators Summit, set to be held in May in Bali. Taking …

PARIS: New carriage has been secured for FRANCE 24 to air part-time on the PBS KCET network in California through its U.S. partner MHz Worldview. The English-language version of FRANCE 2 is available Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to …

NEW YORK: MTV International is to produce its own English-language version of the reality makeover series Plain Jane from Sony Pictures Television’s (SPT) 2waytraffic, while also taking on the original U.S. version for multi-territory broadcasts. MTV International is set to …

PREMIUM: Disney Channels UK is kicking off a new production strategy this year with an eye to building more local content with international potential, according to Boel Ferguson, general manager. Disney Channels UK has already dipped into local production in …

PARIS: Zodiak Rights has closed a round of international sales for WikiLeaks: War, Lies and Videotape that includes broadcasters such as Discovery Europe, TV4 in Sweden, MTV OY in Finland and TVP in Poland. The documentary has further been picked …