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6 days ago | 
worldscreen.com | Jamie Stalcup
Matthew Modine, Adam Rackoff and their Cinco Dedos Peliculas production company have boarded Partickular Films and Two Rivers Media's documentary Michael Caton-Jones: This Broxburn Boy's Life. The co-production explores Michael Caton-Jones' rise from a working-class mining village in Broxburn, near Edinburgh, to the heights of fame as a Hollywood director, with credits for Memphis Belle, Doc Hollywood, This Boy's Life, Rob Roy, The Jackal and many more.
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6 days ago | 
worldscreen.com | Jamie Stalcup
BBC Studios will be rebranding its drama channel BBC First in the Netherlands to BBC NL on May 15. BBC NL will continue to provide Dutch audiences with the same British dramas they watched on BBC First, fully localized with subtitles. To mark the launch of the rebrand, season five of Miss Scarlet will be premiering on May 15. The debut of season five of All Creatures Great and Small will follow on May 21.
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6 days ago | 
worldscreen.com | Jamie Stalcup
Acorn TV has curated a month-long lineup of mystery and crime dramas for its first annual Murder Mystery May. The event will feature the premieres of series such as The One Who Got Away, White Lies and Safe House, as well as the return of the hits Harry Wild, The Brokenwood Mysteries and Murdoch Mysteries. Films in the lineup include Rogue Agent, Cracks and Six Minutes to Midnight. Other new series debuting on Acorn TV throughout the month of May are The Light in the Hall and Boglands.
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6 days ago | 
worldscreen.com | Jamie Stalcup
Bell Media has signed a development agreement for Prejudice with creator and showrunner Celeste Parr ( Plan B) and actor Emily VanCamp ( Revenge, Captain America: Civil War). The series, which marks the first show produced under Bell Media's content licensing and distribution agreement with FOX Entertainment Global, follows a rising litigator whose life and career are thrown into disarray when her past as a sex worker is exposed.
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6 days ago | 
worldscreen.com | Jamie Stalcup
Malaysia's Monsta has extended the reach of its animated series Mechamato with a launch in China on Youku. The robotics-filled action show is already available in more than 75 countries, and the Mechamato movie was the highest-grossing animated film produced in Southeast Asia. "We're thrilled that Mechamato will soon be airing in China through a new partnership with Youku," said Monsta's CEO, Nizam Abd Razak.
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6 days ago | 
worldscreen.com | Jamie Stalcup
Lingokids has launched Theater, a streaming hub within its app that is designed to provide children with ad-free educational content, in the U.S.The hub features over 300 videos tailored to support early childhood learning and development, including content from well-known figures such as Bill Nye, Melissa Joan Hart, Howie Mandel, Brie Garcia and Bethany Hamilton. There are also activity-based videos available that cover drawing, dance, yoga and more.
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6 days ago | 
worldscreen.com | Jamie Stalcup
The long-awaited Nigerian-infused animated superhero series Iyanu from Lion Forge Entertainment has debuted on Max and Cartoon Network in the U.S., bringing a taste of Yoruban culture, music and mythology to kids' TV. Based on the graphic novel by Roye Okupe, the series follows the titular young orphan as she discovers she has divine powers. She must then embark on a journey to save her home of Yorubaland, accompanied by her friends and a magical leopard.
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1 week ago | 
worldscreen.com | Jamie Stalcup
CBS has ordered America's Culinary Cup (w.t.), a new cooking competition series from food expert Padma Lakshmi (Top Chef, Taste the Nation), for the 2025-26 broadcast season. The show will feature an invitation-only cast of the U.S.'s most decorated chefs, who will then embark on a competition designed to challenge their creativity, endurance, presentation, leadership and more. Lakshmi is hosting the series and producing for Delicious Entertainment.
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worldscreen.com | Jamie Stalcup
ITN Productions has produced the fast-turnaround current affairs documentary Trump Revolution: 100 Days That Changed the World for Channel 4. The 60-minute documentary is presented by Channel 4 News anchor Matt Frei, who considers whether U.S. President Donald Trump's actions in the first 100 days of his second term are part of a thought-out strategy and whether billionaire supporters and voters still have faith in his leadership.
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worldscreen.com | Jamie Stalcup
Netflix has slated the premiere of the limited series Fred and Rose West: A British Horror Story, about the lives and crimes of the eponymous husband and wife serial killers, for May 14. The three-part series features exclusive access to previously unseen police video and unheard audio recordings to show how the Gloucestershire police pieced together the couple's dark and twisted relationship and were eventually able to unearth the remains of the Wests' 12 victims to build a case against them.
