World Screen

NEW YORK: Among the new shows headed to VH1’s fall schedule are Real & Chance: Legend Hunters and Bret Michaels: Life As I Know It, along with returning series such as Football Wives and Fantasia For Real. On September 6, …

SANTA MONICA/VANCOUVER: Revenues at Lionsgate fell 14 percent to $326.6 million in the first quarter, with the studio posting a net loss for the period of $64.1 million, as compared with the year-ago profit of $36.3 million. The loss was …

The Canwest-Hot Docs Documentary Fund recently selected the recipients for its fifth round of disbursements. Sean Farnel, the director of programming at Hot Docs, talks to TV Real Weekly about the new projects and the overall aim of allotting this …

LOS ANGELES: HBO has lined up a slate of TV movies and mini-series for 2011, including TheSunsetLimited, based on the Cormac McCarthy play and starring Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel Jackson. Directed and executive produced by Jones from a script by …

LONDON: Emmanuelle Namiech is to take on the role of senior VP of content and development for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, as well as the Asia Pacific, for FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME). Namiech is responsible for sourcing, developing and acquiring …

LONDON: UKTV is rolling out the HD versions of its channels Good Food and Eden, which launch in the third and fourth quarter of this year, respectively. Good Food HD will be available August 31 and will simulcast from 5 a.m. …

NEW YORK: Ben Silverman’s Electus is partnering with the co-founders and executive producers of 5X5 Media to develop a slate of unscripted programming. Craig Armstrong, Rick Ringbakk and Tod Mesirow are well known in the non-fiction content world, with credits such …

LONDON: FremantleMedia has secured a number of new format commissions for Whizz Kid Entertainment’s Let’s Dance. The series was originally commissioned by BBC One. New deals include RTL4 in Holland, Sat.1 in Germany, Channel Russia, Indosiar of Indonesia, TVJoj of Slovakia …

LONDON: The Tanzanian free-to-air channel Clouds TV has signed up for a range of music and lifestyle programming from the pan-African music channel MTV base. MTV base programming will air from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Monday to Sunday, as …

OTTAWA: Canadian pubcaster CBC/Radio-Canada has unveiled its plans for the digital transition, and has announced the exit of its executive VP for English services, Richard Stursberg. With the analogue switch-off a year away, CBC reports that it is installing digital transmitters …