World Screen

MIAMI: Australia’s SBS International is launching a number of new shows at NATPE in the genres of factual entertainment, comedy, lifestyle/food and documentary series. Among the highlights is Hipsters, hosted by Samuel Johnson from the hit Aussie TV show The Secret Life of Us. The series follows Johnson on a …

MELBOURNE: Tony Iffland, the director of television at SBS, is exiting the Australian pubcaster, which is now bringing together its TV and online content teams. For the last three years, Iffland has steered SBS television through a period of growth and transition, including the launch of free-to-air NITV and the …

HONG KONG/SINGAPORE: FOX International Channels (FIC) has inked a co-production deal with Singapore's mm2 Asia that gives its Chinese movies channel SCM first-run and exclusive pay-TV rights for four upcoming theatrical features. The titles covered in the pact are Jack Neo’s Ah Boys to Men 3: Frogmen and Long Long …

SINGAPORE: RTL CBS Asia Entertainment HD has snapped up the exclusive regional pay-TV broadcast rights for this year's Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards ceremony, which is slated to air next week. The SAG Awards exclusively honors actors for their performances in film and television productions. The two-hour event will broadcast …

HONG KONG: The pay-TV provider now TV has added on-demand services for BBC, Disney Movies, FOX and WarnerTV to its offerings. BBC On Demand delivers such hit shows as Top Gear, Ripper Street and The Musketeers, all in HD. Disney Movies On Demand features a collection of classic films from …

SEOUL: CJ E&M has licensed 51 television shows, including Grandpas Over Flowers, Dancing 9 and Get It Beauty, to 4-Ladies, Myanmar's latest Hallyu channel. Other titles headed to the network are Noonas Over Flowers, The Cook-Off and Tasty Road. 4-Ladies is operated by Myanmar's MRTV-4 and MKCS Global Pte. The …

SEOUL: Later this month, CJ E&M's music channel Mnet is slated to debut Unpretty Rapstar, Korean's first female rap battle reality series. Unpretty Rapstar will look on as a group of female rappers—including Jolly V, Cheetah, Ji Min, Tymee, Kisum, Lil Cham and Ji Dam Yuk—compete to create the country's first …

BOGOTÁ: The Voice of Freedom, a Colombian series produced by CMO Producciones for Caracol Televisión and distributed by Caracol TV Internacional, has launched in Vietnam. The 62×60-minute series will air on Vietnamese channel VTV 9 every Monday to Friday at 12 p.m. The title is inspired by the most important …

LONDON: BBC Worldwide has entered into a pact with ELTA TV that will see the largest volume of U.K. content become available in Taiwan. As part of the pact, four of BBC’s channels—BBC World News HD, BBC Knowledge HD, BBC Lifestyle and BBC Entertainment—will be available on Chunghwa Telecom’s MOD …

SEOUL: Through its partnership with Transformational Films, CJ E&M is investing in the Thai movie Cha-Lui: Touching the Sky, which it will also distribute in select markets. Cha-Lui: Touching the Sky is a musical comedy about two young men who come to Korea to chase after their dreams of becoming K-Pop …