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“Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light,” formats “Upside Down” and “Shaolin Heroes” and premium doc feature “Front Row,” offering a novel take on the Ukraine War, are potential highlights on Banijay’s powerhouse lineup at what promises to be one of the biggest presentations at next week’s London TV Screenings.

Mixing third-party pick-ups and Banijay productions, further scripted titles take in second seasons of two Banijay hits, the sumptuous and revisionist “Marie Antoinette,” and “Rogue Heroes,” a big WWII special ops adventure story which hit high ratings on BBC.

Unspooling over Wednesday Feb. 28 at BAFTA in three sessions, dedicated to factual, scripted and then formats, the Banijay@BAFTA lineup, as last year, the spread will give audiences a chance to catch up with high-concept adventure reality “The Summit” and “Deal or No Deal Island,” described as an “epic” recast of the format.

Banijay’s lineup features some big names on the current U.

Fort Boyard and Survivor producer Alp’s Alexia Laroche-Joubert and Frédéric Lussato are launching a Banijay-backed scripted label in France.

Screen Line Productions will focus on character-driven content, as the two French vets develop original ideas as well as book adaptations, spanning mainly youth-oriented themes. Banijay said a debut commission will be unveiled soon. As part of the launch, the pair have appointed Lavinia Jullien as Development Executive.

The pair run Alp, which produces some of France’s biggest non-scripted shows including Fort Boyard and Koh Lanta (Survivor).

“During my career I have created and adapted many formats from the world of entertainment including Koh Lanta (Survivor) and Star Academy, with the commonality of all being popular formats,” said Laroche-Joubert. “With our knowledge of this audience paired with production expertise, Screen Line is geared up to develop ambitious projects for a wide audience.”

Banijay France also runs the likes of Shine Fiction,...

Rihanna appeared on-stage for a live performance at French TV singing contest "Star Academy". She delivered two of her songs from 2007 LP "Good Girl Gone Bad", "Umbrella" and "Rehab", on the season finale of the TV talent show on December 19.

Previously, Rihanna revealed to the media she wants to collaborate with Lily Allen, Duffy and Leona Lewis for her next effort. "Lily Allen is bad ass - I love her. I also really like Duffy and Leona Lewis, who is so beautiful, with an amazing voice. I would love to do a collaboration with those girls," she explained.

Scheduled to be recorded in early 2009, Rihanna's new album will feature new works from Chris Brown. He said, "I actually have a couple of songs written already that would be dope collaborations between me and her. And I'm writing for her new album now."

Rihanna singing "Umbrella":

Rihanna singing "Rehab...

Rihanna and Chris Brown did a little of what they do best - luxury shopping at Lv and Gucci - in Paris yesterday. The romantic city is perfect for the stylish couple in their various matching black, white and gray pieces. Rihanna is in town to perform on Star Academy and if the viewers are lucky they'll get a steamy cameo by Chris on stage as a bonus. Rih has your favorite short haircut of the year and she recently talked about what it does for her saying, "My hair definitely inspired different things like how I dress, the swagger. I became more confident and more comfortable with myself. . . I like to have an edge to it, no matter what it is that I'm doing. It's really cool when I see people in the audience with the same hair as I have. It's very flattering. Not too long ago I...

PARIS -- French television channel TF1 said Tuesday that the interruption of its live Star Academy talent show Saturday night by striking stagehands cost the company about €2 million ($2.3 million) in advertising revenue. The company, which interrupted its primetime broadcast for two hours after a scuffle broke out between the intruding strikers and security guards, said they were forced to abort two commercial breaks of four and six minutes, resulting in the losses. France's most popular TV show was being watched by an audience of nearly 3.5 million, 42.8% of the audience viewing at that time, according to figures released by Mediametrie, the official body that measures TV audiences.

PARIS -- A group of more than 60 striking showbiz workers invaded the set of Star Academy in a Paris suburb, disrupting a live primetime telecast of France's most popular talent show and forcing it off the air. About 30 artists and stagehands, roughly half of the group of strikers, rushed onto the TV show's set Saturday night, five minutes after a young hopeful had started belting a song, unfurling a banner that read "Turn off your TVs" in French, the TF1 commercial channel confirmed the next day. TF1 hastily covered up the incident with an ad, followed by its popular Julie Lescaut police serial as an estimated audience of 6 million watched. The protest took an ugly turn when a skirmish broke out in the studio between the strikers and security staff, leaving a TF1 staffer with a broken arm and one of the protesters badly injured. They were hospitalized later, police confirmed.