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AMSTERDAM: Eyeworks International’s hit format The Italian Dream continues its successful rollout across Scandinavia, with Swedish broadcaster TV4 as the latest to commission a local version. The show, which sees four couples competing for their own bed and breakfast in …

SYDNEY: Beyond Distribution has licensed the fifth season of Taboo to National Geographic Channels International for rollout in 164 countries beginning this August. Greece’s SKAI TV also took the 15-part fifth season, as did MediaCorp in Singapore. The show, from Beyond Productions, explores …

LONDON/TOKYO: NHK World TV, the English-language news and information channel from the Japanese pubcaster NHK, is joining the Freesat lineup in the U.K., effective tomorrow. Available in the "News and Sport" section of the EPG, the channel targets English speakers with …

LOS ANGELES: E! Entertainment Television has ordered an eight-episode series, The Lamas Family, from Mike Fleiss and Warner Horizon Television, as well as a new show from Ryan Seacrest Productions and Bunim-Murray Productions featuring two of the Kardashian sisters. From the producers of E!’s …

PALISADES PARK: Alfred Haber Distribution, Inc. (AHDI) has reached a deal with Nash Entertainment for the international distribution rights to the sixth season of the police reality series Most Shocking, which airs in the U.S. on truTV. AHDI now how has the …

LONDON/ABERDEEN: Tern Television has received a commission from Sky Real Lives for the 10×30-minute series Celebrity Parents’ SOS. Each episode of Tern’s new lifestyle format will feature a British household that needs assistance in the fundamentals of mending, cleaning, cooking and DIY. …

MAINZ: Karoline Meichsner-Sertl has been appointed as the head of ZDF Enterprises’ legal and contract department. Meichsner-Sertl takes over from Tobias Könemann, who remains the head of personnel at the company. She was previously an in-house lawyer at Deutsche Welle. She also served stints …

NEW YORK: Surveying 14,000 consumers in 13 countries, Accenture has found that people are watching more content on a greater number of platforms than they were a year ago, and are more willing to pay for programming via subscription services. …

LOS ANGELES: The national board of directors of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) has voted to approve a tentative two-year contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers and has recommended its ratification to members, after a year …

SAN JOSE/LAS VEGAS: Adobe Systems Inc. is expanding its Flash technology—the leading platform for online content—to Internet-connected TV sets, set-top boxes, Blu-ray players and other devices, facilitating the delivery of high-definition web video, games and more to the television screen. …