World Screen

MIAMI: SPE (Sony Pictures Entertainment) Networks Latin America has acquired the upcoming FOX U.S. version of The X Factor from FremantleMedia Enterprises. The deal, brokered by Sheila Aguirre, FME’s senior VP of sales for Latin America and Hispanic-speaking U.S.A., will see …

BURBANK: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment is expanding into social games with the launch of Gossip Girl: Social Climbing, playable on Facebook. The game is based on the Warner Bros. Television series Gossip Girl, which airs Mondays on The CW. The …

MIAMI: In its inaugural Miami outing, NATPE had 4,504 registered attendees, a 22-percent gain over last year’s event in Las Vegas. Registered buyers reached 702, up almost 94 percent on the year prior. Registered individual stations, group or station owners …

NEW YORK: ION Television has picked up the rights to existing and future episodes of the police procedural Flashpoint from CBS Television Distribution. The Canadian drama is currently in its third season on CTV; the season finale is due to air after the Super …

PARIS: Vivendi has completed the sale of its 20-percent stake in NBC Universal for $5.8 billion, paving the way for GE to enter its new joint venture with Comcast Corporation. "We are very satisfied that our strategic objective to exit NBC Universal …

LONDON: Scott Free Productions, the venture founded by Tony and Ridley Scott, has joined Headline Pictures, Sennet Entertainment and FremantleMedia Enterprises as a co-producer on The Drivers, a period drama set against the backdrop of Le Mans. FME is funding …

NEW YORK: The hit Syfy series Warehouse 13 is to begin production on a third season, with 13 fresh episodes going to air this summer.  Production gets under way in Toronto on February 9, picking up after the season two …

DUBLIN: New forecasts indicate that the number of global IPTV subscribers will grow from 44 million at the end of 2010 to 111.5 million in 2014. This represents a compound annual growth rate of 26 percent. The global service revenue …

NEW YORK: Syfy.com is to debut its newest original web series, The Mercury Men, early this year, following the successful performance of the digital program Riese: Kingdom Falling. Riese: Kingdom Falling, narrated by Sanctuary‘s Amanda Tapping, premiered on Syfy.com on …

LOS ANGELES: OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network has a new prime-time series focused on home makeovers, Home Takeover with Simon & Tomas, based on a Scandinavian format sold to the channel by Strix Television. The entertainment format, originally titled Home Delivery, …