World Screen

LONDON: Zeppotron, an Endemol company, has been commissioned for a fifth season of the entertainment panel show Would I Lie To You? for BBC One. The fourth season of the series consistently won its Friday night time slot, bringing in 3.7 …

LOS ANGELES: Remarkable Content Group has taken on the distribution for two documentary projects from William Shatner: The Captains and William Shatner’s Gonzo Ballet. Television distribution has already been secured in the U.S. and Canada, and Remarkable Content Group is …

MUNICH: Beta Film’s children’s label Wunderbox has struck a deal for the whodunit Little Robbers to air on Germany’s KI.KA, which will launch the film in March 2011. A co-production from Studio F.O.R.M.A. and Mini Film, Little Robbers tells the …

LOS ANGELES: Paramount Digital Entertainment has secured an exclusive first-look deal with Red Hour Digital, a new subsidiary of Ben Stiller’s Red Hour Films, that covers the development of original digital properties to be launched through a variety of formats. …

LONDON: The preschool channel JimJam has expanded its distribution with two new launches, in the Netherlands and in Portugal. In the Netherlands, JimJam is part of a new digital kids’ package for KPN. KPN has also taken on JimJam’s non-commercial …

HONG KONG: Celestial Pictures has signed a multi-year output deal that supplies its flagship channel, Celestial Movies, with the exclusive first-run pay-TV rights to broadcast the entire upcoming slate of theatrical productions from Emperor Motion Pictures. This covers Malaysia, Brunei …

LOS ANGELES/PARIS: The inaugural edition of DISCOP Istanbul has already confirmed 160 companies that have signed up for the event, which takes place March 14 to 16, 2011. The market will focus on the broader Middle East, Central Asia and …

PREMIUM: The Hub, a joint venture of Discovery Communications and Hasbro, is set to launch October 1. ON THE RECORD: MARGARET LOESCH, PRESIDENT & CEO How do you schedule the channel from morning through late night, Monday through Sunday? The …

KUALA LUMPUR: Asian lifestyle network Li (Life Inspired) has scored new carriage deals in Taiwan, with the service now available on eight platforms in four markets in the region. The new deals were inked with  DishHD and Chunghwa Telecom MOD, adding to …

HYDERABAD: Discovery Channel in now available in four languages in India, with a Telugu-language feed, for viewers in Andhra Pradesh, adding to existing feeds in English, Hindi and Tamil. In Asia-Pacific alone, Discovery Channel is broadcast in 11 different languages. …