World Screen

LOS ANGELES: Queen Latifah and producer Jermaine Dupri are teaming up to find the next big hip-hop star with an all-new unscripted series titled The Rap Game. Queen Latifah and her partner Shakim Compere will executive produce the series under …

BOSTON: PBS International has lined up several broadcasters for the three-part Frontline series My Brother’s Bomber, within days of its U.S. premiere. BBC’s Storyville strand (U.K.), SBS (Australia), MBD/Alhurra (the Middle East), DR (Denmark) and Phoenix Satellite (Hong Kong and …

WASHINGTON, D.C.: National Geographic Channel has greenlit two specials for 2016, one on Pope Francis’s pre-Vatican life and another on the 30th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion. Rebel Pope, a FOX Telecolombia production, will interweave scripted accounts of …

BURBANK: ABC has given the go-ahead to a second season of its BattleBots revival. The show’s second run will feature new technologies, more destructive bots and even the possibility of drones and flying battlebots. In its first season, the competition …

LONDON: Channel 4 has commissioned Oxford Scientific Films (OSF), in association with Manchester’s North West Film Archive and the Imperial War Museums, to produce the special Calling Blighty (working title), honoring Britain’s servicemen fighting in Burma during World War II. …