World Screen

NEW YORK: American Greetings Properties has named Televix Entertainment as the exclusive distributor of the Care Bears entertainment library for free TV and DVD in Latin America. The deal includes 52 episodes of the series Care Bears: Adventures in Care-a-Lot, five …

LONDON: BBC Worldwide’s production studios in France and India are to adapt The Week the Women Went, an observational series that tracks as women leave their homes for a week and men pick up the remaining duties. BBC Worldwide Productions …

BOSTON: APT Worldwide has picked up the international representation rights for the performance special A Celebration of Leonard Bernstein, honoring the famed composer and conductor on his 90th birthday. The tribute features performances of Bernstein’s best-loved works by opera stars …

The Hub, a joint venture between Discovery Communications and Hasbro, launched in place of Discovery Kids last October in the U.S. with the aim of providing children and families with a new and different destination for quality entertainment. With a …

As the saying goes, what’s old is new again. Indeed, Banijay International certainly believes in leveraging the potential of a classic format to secure continued sales by reinvigorating the concept. Such is the case with the property guessing game Sold! …

NEW YORK: Syfy, which has upped Mark Stern to president of original programming, is partnering with Mark Burnett and Seth Jarrett to develop a new reality series about paranormal activity in schools and universities across the U.S. School Spirits from Jarrett …

TORONTO: Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Werner Herzog’s 3D film of the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind, will be screened at History Makers on January 28. For the film, Herzog was given exclusive access to the Chauvet Cave in Southern …

NEW YORK: Writers Jane Espenson and Drew Z. Greenberg, who previously worked together on Caprica and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, will write the pilot development script for a potential U.S. version of the classic British detective show Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) …

LONDON: Channel 5 has commissioned Tigress Productions, an Endemol company, to produce Red Sea Jaws, a documentary about the recent shark attacks in Sharm el-Sheikh. Red Sea Jaws pieces together the events that unfolded over five days when last month the …

NEW YORK/LONDON/BARCELONA: 41 Entertainment has signed up Morningstar in Canada, Swen Entertainment in Brazil and Televix in Latin America for the premiere rights to the HeathCliff: Bad Kitty film. Morningstar, Swen and Televix were granted exclusive broadcast and home entertainment …