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PREMIUM: Inking a broad range of licensing deals as Netflix continues its international expansion, chief content officer Ted Sarandos tells World Screen Newsflash that while bringing “Hollywood content to the world is a proven good business…I think [offering] the world’s …

LONDON: The Crime & Investigation Network has commissioned Eyeline Entertainment to produce the new crime documentary series At Home with The Noonans. The six-episode one-hour series explores the lives of the Manchester crime family the Noonans. It is a co-production …

NEW YORK: In this video interview, the cast of the new ABC Studios drama Missing—Ashley Judd, Cliff Curtis and Adriano Giannini—sat down with World Screen Newsflash to discuss the show and its international appeal.   Returning to television after having …

LONDON: CreaCon Entertainment has secured two new licensing deals for its preschool property City of Friends for international live mini-shows and character appearances. The new licensing agreements follow the launch of the first City of Friends live stage show in …

BARCELONA: Among the animation companies based in Barcelona, Imira Entertainment, Edebé Audiovisual Licensing, Motion Pictures, BRB Internacional, Tomavistas, StorkFisk, Mago Producciones and Cromosoma were part of the event organized by ICEX for international trade press publications. The event kicked off …

NEW YORK: The NPR radio quiz show Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! is to make its U.S. television debut on BBC America during the 2011 Year in Review special airing December 23. The year-end special will also run on NPR …

MADRID: Boomerang TV announced it will be making El tiempo entre costuras and Toledo, two epic productions, for Spanish broadcaster Antena 3 to air next year. El tiempo entre costuras, an adaptation from the novel by María Dueñas, is due …

LOS ANGELES: Endemol Studios is working with ABC Studios to develop versions of the Dutch drama Penoza and the Australian series Spirited for ABC. Endemol’s NL Film &TV’s Penoza, penned by Pieter Bart Korthuis and produced by Alain de Levita for …

LONDON: The four-day BBC Worldwide Showcase event is planning to incorporate a day dedicated to digital, with Ted Sarandos, the chief content officer of Netflix, and Somrat Niyogi, the CEO and co-founder of the Internet start-up Miso, confirmed as speakers. A host …

MADRID: Daniel Écija, Globomedia’s CEO, announced that the company and Antena 3 will co-produce Luna, el misterio de Calenda, which began shooting this week and will air on the Spanish broadcaster in prime time. The series about werewolves is set …