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NEW YORK: The international media industry’s leading publishing group relaunches its flagship website, WorldScreen.com, today with a whole new look and a slew of cutting-edge features designed to provide the same news and information that you’ve come to rely on, …

LONDON, January 20: The new 15-part series Tellytales, which combines live action and animation, will debut on CBeebies in March. The show highlights some of the world’s most classic stories, while exploring different cultures and landscapes. In each episode, a …

LONDON: Power heads to NATPE with a number of adventure series, big-budget mini-series and dramas, including the 13-part Crusoe, to offer.  Joining the adventure series Crusoe on Power’s slate is XIII: The Conspiracy, a 2-part action thriller starring Val Kilmer and …

LONDON: In the lead up to next month’s DISCOP Africa, ALL3MEDIA International has notched up a range of deals across the African continent, totaling more than 50 hours. A pan-territory deal was signed with Hallmark for the 3×1-hour drama Torn. Hallmark …

BUENOS AIRES: Flor Latina Entertainment Group is representing the rights to a series from Bubby Producciones about the Boca Juniors football team. Boca Juniors, A True Love Story is a six-episode series in which fans, players, coaches, celebrities and more talk …

CHICAGO: Towers Productions is at work on some 30 hours of original content for Discovery Channel, Investigation Discovery and Animal Planet. The slate includes Secret America, two one-hour specials for Discovery Channel about the meaning of hidden symbols embedded in America’s …

BUENOS AIRES: Telefe International is offering up the rights to the Casanova Producciones high-definition series Turning Points. The show, airing on Channel 7 in Argentina, focuses on two office clerks, Pérez and García, with a rotating cast of characters over the 13 …

SÃO PAULO: TV Globo’s international channel for Brazilian and Portuguese-language communities is set to launch an original series specifically for its subscribers in Angola. On January 24, TV Globo Internacional will roll out Revista Africa, a weekly magazine series targeted at viewers …

LOS ANGELES: Bennett Media Worldwide has reached a volume deal for content from its MEN7 brand with the Malaysian broadband provider SyQic Capital. The agreement brings 150 hours of content from the MEN7 Digital Network to SyQic’s broadband TV platform YOONIC, …

NASHVILLE: The Documentary Channel (DOC) will present the U.S. premieres of five films this February that focus on men and women working in unorthodox professions in its Primetime Premieres Monday night lineup.  Fit for a King looks at B&K Enterprises, …