World Screen

LONDON: ALL3MEDIA has finalized a deal to acquire Optomen, along with its U.S. production arm, Optomen Productions, and its joint-venture subsidiary with Gordon Ramsay, One Potato Two. Optomen’s catalogue includes Great British Menu, Mary, Queen of Shops and What To …

MEXICO CITY/LOS ANGELES: Lawless Entertainment has been appointed as the licensing agent for international formatting of TV Azteca’s What Us Women Keep Quiet About (Lo Que Callamos Las Mujeres). Lawless will represent the show for formatting in the U.K., France, …

CARLSBAD: The action sports company TransWorld Media has teamed up with Apparent Gravity Media on its first TV series, TransWorld Sessions. The series, 26×30 min., will feature some of the most popular action sports, including freestyle motocross, skate, snowboarding, BMX …

LONDON: Following its rebrand earlier this year, Bravo in the U.K. has ramped up its original programming, with its latest addition, Kung Fu Street Fighters (working title), commissioned from Optomen Television. The 6×1-hour factual entertainment series has taken more than …

STAMFORD: ESPN has sublicensed the multimedia rights to select matches of England’s Barclays Premier League through a three-year deal with Fox Sports International. Covering the 2010-11 through 2012-13 seasons, the deal includes up to 74 live matches each season on …

LOS ANGELES: No Brainer Films is a new specialty production company from actor, writer and producer Jamie Foxx and writer, director and producer Deon Taylor that will focus on film and TV projects. Foxx and Taylor will develop, finance, write, …

COLOGNE: Among the shows added to Super RTL’s 2011 lineup is the hit U.S. series Glee, to be featured in the channel’s revamped prime-time grid. At a special presentation in Cologne-Deutz, Claude Schmit, Super RTL’s managing director, and Carsten Göttel, …

NEW YORK: A new scripted pilot from Bryan Fuller, the creator of Dead Like Me and Pushing Daisies, has been ordered by Syfy. The show will be based on the book The Lotus Caves by John Christopher. The story follows …

NEW YORK: Rick Feldman, the president and CEO of NATPE, talks in this video interview about the advantages the new location in Miami boasts, and what attendees can expect overall from the event.    In January 2011, NATPE makes a …

SINGAPORE: ESPN STAR Sports (ESS) has added Wenjia Fang to its management team, in the role of managing director and chief representative for its China operations. Fang reports directly to Manu Sawhney, the managing director of ESS. Fang will be …