World Screen

LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK: FOX has come on board with ABC, CBS, NBC and several cable networks for a live, commercial-free fund-raising event, Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C), set to air September 10. The cable networks that have signed up for the live telecast …

LOS ANGELES: The August lineup of The Africa Channel will feature two new original productions, Between the Lines and Africa Laughs, both in HD. Between the Lines features Cameroonian-American author Sarah Culberson as host. The series spotlights Africa’s literary giants. …

LONDON: Sky 1 and Sky 1 HD have commissioned a new series from Pulse Films that serves as a follow up to the successful show Pineapple Dance Studios, featuring Louie Spence. Tentatively titled Showbusiness, the 13×1-hour series will be a …

LONDON: The family entertainment game show Face to Face has been re-commissioned by its launch broadcaster in Germany, and ALL3MEDIA International has further scored new options for the format. The studio-based game show watches two contestants battle with brain teasers …

LONDON: Darlow Smithson Productions (DSP) has been commissioned by Channel 4 to produce a new documentary, WWI: Finding the Lost Battalions, which follows the search to reveal the identities of some of the war’s unknown soldiers. Channel 4 and DSP …

BURBANK: Disney Channel has ordered a second season of Good Luck Charlie, and a holiday-themed movie based on the series is also in the works. The second-season pickup comes just three months after the show’s premiere. Good Luck Charlie ranked …

LONDON: Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has secured a number of new launches for its general-entertainment channel AXN in HD in countries such as Poland, Spain and Italy. AXN HD launched yesterday in Poland, with a programming lineup that includes Criminal …

LOS ANGELES: Larry A. Thompson has reached a deal to produce a television adaptation of Kitty Kelley’s unauthorized biography of Oprah Winfrey. Oprah, published by Crown Publishers, a division of Random House, will serve as the basis for the telefilm or …

LOS ANGELES: The U.S. version of Shameless and Matt LeBlanc’s new comedy series Episodes are slated to premiere on Showtime in January, alongside season four of Californication. Shameless, from Warner Bros. Television, based on the acclaimed Channel 4 series and starring William …

TORONTO/LOS ANGELES/LONDON: ABC and Canwest have renewed the freshman cop drama Rookie Blue, an E1 Entertainment and Thump production, just three weeks after its premiere. The series has garnered a combined weekly average of 8.5 million viewers on ABC in …