World Screen

STUDIO CITY: 44 Blue Productions has elevated one executive and added two new members to its development team. Julie Merson has been promoted and will now serve as VP of development. Since joining the company from Original Media, Merson has …

LOS ANGELES: E! is bringing back the docuseries I Am Cait, which follows Caitlyn Jenner as she lives her life as a transgender woman, for a second season in 2016. The first season of I Am Cait aired in 153 …

PARIS/LOS ANGELES: Alhurra has acquired 208 episodes of Prime Entertainment Group’s celebrity and entertainment series through a package deal. Alhurra signed on for 104 episodes of the magazine show Hollywood News Feed, as well as 104 episodes of Zoom In for …

MANCHESTER: Australia’s Foxtel has picked up the space documentary Is Anybody Out There?, distributed by Espresso Media International. The 52-minute doc is set to debut on Foxtel’s History HD channel tomorrow night. The title calls upon leading scientists and cutting-edge …

NEW YORK: TLC has appointed Sara Helman as VP of development and production. Helman joins TLC’s east coast development team from Destination America, which is owned by Discovery Communications. At TLC, Helman will be based in New York and report …

LONDON: A new 90-minute movie, jointly commissioned by BBC Worldwide and the BBC from Big Earth Productions, will follow football star David Beckham as he plays seven games in all of the seven continents around the world. The project will …

ALBUQUERQUE: U.S. general-entertainment channel REELZ has announced a November programming lineup focused on the Kennedy family, with its new docuseries The Kennedy Files anchoring the slate. Each one-hour episode of the ten-part Asylum Entertainment production will depict a different facet …

LONDON: DRG has picked up the global distribution rights for My Son the Jihadi, a one-off documentary that recently premiered on Channel 4 in the U.K. My Son the Jihadi chronicles the daily struggles of a mother whose once mild-mannered …

BURBANK: ABC Family has given the go-ahead for a sophomore season of its original reality series Monica the Medium. Produced by Dave Caplan’s Trooper Entertainment in association with Lionsgate TV, Monica the Medium follows Monica, a college student and psychic …

LOS ANGELES/TORONTO: Breakthrough Entertainment and Daniel H. Birman Productions have joined forces to co-produce a multi-part documentary series based on the Hinges of History book series by historian and author Thomas Cahill.  The six best-selling books in Cahill’s Hinges of …