How I Met Your Mother, Last Man Standing, This Is Us and Awake are getting international remakes as part of a global scripted formats drive by Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution. The Neil Patrick Harris- and Jason Segel-fronted comedy How I Met Your Mother is being remade in China, Tim Allen's Last Man Stand…

The Pearson family is going global. Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution has begun to license hit drama This Is Us as a scripted format with Fox Networks Group in Turkey the first to order a local adaptation. Turkey’s Medyapim will produce the first season for FNG’s entertainment channel, Fox. TCFTVD says…

Ricardo Rubini has been named Senior Vice President of Sales, Latin America, Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution (TCFTVD). In his expanded role, Fox vet Rubini will now oversee all television licensing negotiations throughout Latin America. Rubini is based out of the company's office in São Paulo and will…

The world is calling for the emergency services after Ryan Murphy's procedural police drama 9-1-1 was sold in more than 100 territories including to Sky in the UK. The series, which stars Angela Bassett, Peter Krause and Connie Britton, has been sold across Europe, Asia and Latin America by Twentieth Century Fox Televi…

Company veteran Gina Brogi officially has been promoted to President of Global Distribution at Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution. Brogi was slated to step into her new role when Marion Edwards, President of International Television, announced that she would be leaving at the end of 2016 after 24 years at…

The Zurich Film Festival has set The Weinstein Co/See-Saw Films' Lion as its opening night film. The European premiere of the Garth Davis-directed pic will take place on September 22. Based on Saroo Brierley's A Long Way Home, Lion tells the true story of how a wrong train takes a 5-year-old Indian boy hundreds of…

Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution said today that its International Television president Marion Edwards is leaving at year’s end after nearly a quarter-century at the company. She will be replaced by Gina Brogi, the current EVP Worldwide Pay Television and Subscription Video on Demand. As president of…

Endemol Buys Rights To Relationship Format ‘The Extra Mile’ Endemol has picked up multiple-territory rights at Mip-TV to the Israeli format The Extra Mile from Studio Glam. The show sees divorced couples that can barely speak to each other brought together in an exotic location. There they must learn to co-habit and…