World Screen

DUBLIN/LONDON: UKTV has picked up two prime-time factual series from RTÉ Global, The High Hopes Choir and Rachel Allen’s Coastal Cooking. Tyrone Productions' The High Hopes Choir is a series about Ireland’s first choir of homeless people. The 3×52-minute series was …

LOS ANGELES: WWE's John Cena has signed up to lead the all-new competition series American Grit, which has been given a ten-episode order from FOX for 2016. The show will see 16 men and women from across the U.S. split …

LONDON: Vaudeville Productions and Crook Productions are co-producing a magic-based competition show for ITV, The Next Great Magician. The series will feature the world’s best magicians performing their greatest tricks, many of them for the first time ever on television, …

ATLANTA: As truTV marks the one-year anniversary of its "Way More Fun" brand refresh, the channel has ordered three new prime-time series while renewing two fan favorites and announcing the development of a pair of unscripted shows. truTV has greenlit …

LONDON: TCB Media Rights has sold more than 80 hours of factual and factual-entertainment content into Australia and New Zealand. TCB has closed deals with seven of the region’s top broadcasters, including ABC, Channel Nine, SBS Australia, Foxtel, Sky TV, …

LONDON/MOSCOW: Digital Television Russia (DTR) has lined up the first international premiere for its natural-history documentary The Far Eastern Leopard: Struggle for the Taiga Throne on Prasar Bharati's Doordarshan in India. The Far Eastern Leopard: Struggle for the Taiga Throne …

LONDON: The new documentary Roller Derby: Skate Fast, Hit Hard is launching today on BBC iPlayer. The 20-minute documentary examines the full-contact, female team sport, which is played on quad roller skates. Roller Derby: Skate Fast, Hit Hard follows two …

LONDON: Channel 4 in the U.K. is set to air tonight an undercover investigation into British women who are supporting the ISIS militant group. ISIS: The British Women Supporters Unveiled is due out at 9 p.m. Led by young British …

TORONTO: Blue Ant International, a division of Blue Ant Media, has secured an exclusive distribution output agreement with factual producer Cream Productions. The multi-year deal will see Blue Ant International represent Cream Productions’s factual content, including such titles as Wild …

LONDON: The professional life of writer, director, actor and presenter Stephen Fry will take center stage in the upcoming BBC Two documentary Stephen Fry: A Life on Screen. Stephen Fry: A Life on Screen will feature commentary from Fry's colleagues …