World Screen

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 …

LOS ANGELES: E! Entertainment has greenlit Botched By Nature, a new series from Evolution Media featuring Dr. Paul Nassif and Dr. Terry Dubrow of the network's hit plastic-surgery show Botched. The 8×1-hour series will debut on E! in 2016. It will follow …

LONDON: Twofour Rights and the CBS AMC Networks EMEA Channels Partnership have inked a deal for the first two seasons of the Posh Pawn spin-off The Deal Makers, which will broadcast on CBS Reality in 115 territories. The Deal Makers …

LONDON: ITV2 in the U.K. has given the go-ahead to the competition series Prank Pad. The 8×1-hour production will see a group of eight tricksters compete through pranks to be the last one standing in order to win six months …