World Screen

MUNICH: ProSiebenSat.1’s Red Arrow Entertainment Group has set up shop in the U.K. with a local operation that intends to invest in British production companies as well as develop and package scripted properties for the international market. Red Arrow Entertainment …

LOS ANGELES: Entertainment Studios is working with the well-known attorney Gloria Allred on a new television court series, We The People with Gloria Allred. "It is unprecedented to have the biggest name in law come to television and be a part …

LOS ANGELES: Kelsey Grammer is getting into the unscripted content business with a new entity, G3 Productions, that has entered into a joint venture with Zodiak USA. Zodiak USA will have the first look rights to all properties from G3, which is …

MIAMI: Fireworks International has licensed a range of content to Sony Pictures Entertainment Networks Latin America, including Vuguru’s Pretty Tough and the Animal Planet series Freak Encounters. The three-year deal kicks off in April and covers the pay-TV and Internet …

MIAMI: BBC Worldwide has clinched a deal with Mexican terrestrial broadcaster TV Azteca covering a host of natural history and science titles, including David Attenborough’s Life in Cold Blood. Other titles covered under the agreement, which was announced at NATPE, include Walking …

MIAMI: FremantleMedia Enterprises has scored a host of deals in Latin America, including sales of the new seasons of American Idol and Project Runway. Season ten of American Idol will air on Sony in Central and South America and the …

MIAMI: Mexican media giant Televisa has secured the rights to the new Power Rangers Samurai series, which launches in the U.S. on Nickelodeon next month, in a deal with MarVista Entertainment. The latest series in Saban Brands’ long-running Power Rangers …

LONDON: Responding to news that Jeremy Hunt, the U.K.’s Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, has referred its proposed takeover of BSkyB to the Competition Commission, News Corporation has called Ofcom’s analysis of the merger "deficient in …

MIAMI: Sir Martin Sorrell, the CEO of ad giant WPP Group, delivered the opening keynote at NATPE under the banner “Kiss & Punch,” representing the need to cooperate and compete in the media industry. Sorrell began by talking about how …

MIAMI: TeleFutura On Demand is a new service that provides 24-hour access to a range of prime-time novelas within one day of their linear broadcasts. New programming is to be made available on a daily basis. The launch lineup includes …