World Screen

LONDON: Content Media Corporation's Content Television has licensed several dramas, including Dead Rising: Watchtower, to broadcasters throughout Asia. FOX International Channels Asia Pacific inked a pan-Asian deal for Dead Rising: Watchtower, which is based on the hit video-game franchise, for …

NEW YORK: The online video network DramaFever is rolling out a set of new short-form DF Minis, with all episodes of each series being released at once to maximize binge-viewing potential. Each episode in the DF Minis series is around …

NEW YORK: The sophomore season of Fear the Walking Dead, a companion show to AMC's hit horror series The Walking Dead, has begun production in Baja, Mexico, for broadcast next year. Fear the Walking Dead takes place during the beginning …

LOS ANGELES: Colony, which comes from executive producers Carlton Cuse (Lost) and Ryan Condal (Hercules), has been licensed by Legendary Television to France's TF1. Set in the very near future, Colony centers on one family’s struggle to survive and bring …

LONDON: The U.S. drama Manhattan is set to launch exclusively in the U.K. on BT’s AMC early next month. The 13-episode series will debut January 5. It chronicles the scientists charged with building the first atomic bomb in Los Alamos, …

NEW YORK: Spike has given a straight-to-series order for an original TV adaptation of Kim Stanley Robinson’s award-winning Mars book trilogy. Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars chronicle mankind’s colonization and transformation of the red planet. The books have been …

LONDON: ITV Studios Global Entertainment (ITVS GE) has named Knockout Licensing as the licensing agent for the period drama Poldark in the U.S. and Canada. Knockout Licensing will oversee the development of a dedicated Poldark consumer products program. Co-produced by …

NEW YORK: Expanding its suite of services exclusively focused on the business of drama production and distribution, World Screen is launching TV Drama Daily in 2016. A new online newsletter, TV Drama Daily will provide the latest updates on the …

TORONTO: Shaftesbury has partnered with Sharon Mustos to adapt Ann-Marie MacDonald’s novel Fall on Your Knees into a four-part miniseries for CBC. The book will be adapted by Adriana Maggs (Rookie Blue, Call Me Fitz, Grown Up Movie Star) and …

NEW YORK: Homeland and The Affair, the top two highest-rated scripted programs on premium television this fall, have been renewed by Showtime for sixth and third seasons, respectively. Homeland stars Claire Danes as a bipolar CIA agent. The show, based …