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MONTREAL: Incendo has formalized its long-standing working partnership with Zone3, signing a new deal that sees the companies teaming up to create programming for Canadian broadcasters. Zone3 and Incendo intend to use their collective experience and talent to build a …

LAUSANNE: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has awarded broadcast rights for the 2010 and 2012 Olympic Games to América Televisión in Peru. América Televisión has been granted the free-to-air TV and radio broadcast rights for the Vancouver Winter Games and …

NEW YORK: Syfy’s new supernatural drama series Haven, based on the novella The Colorado Kid from Steven King, will feature Emily Rose in the lead role. Rose (Jericho, Brothers and Sisters, ER) will play Audrey Parker, an FBI agent with a …

TORONTO: Ricky Gervais, a comedian best known for creating the comedy hits The Office and Extras, has been selected to receive this year’s Sir Peter Ustinov Comedy Award at BANFF/nextMEDIA. The Sir Peter Ustinov Comedy Award each year is presented …

  This article originally appeared in the MIPCOM ’09 issue.   Offering the best shows, from animated series featuring lovable characters in endearing story lines to documentaries about children in real-life situations, the Milkshake! block on Five has won the …

  This article originally appeared in the MIPCOM ’09 issue.   A pioneer of the digital video recorder (DVR), TiVo helped revolutionize the television-viewing experience by giving customers the ability to record shows and play them back at a more …

Shine Group’s chairman and CEO delivered the International Keynote at NATPE last week, which was followed by a Q&A with Anna Carugati, World Screen‘s group editorial director. Elisabeth Murdoch had a strong message for content creators last week about the …

KidsCo’s program director, Eileen McCarthy, and managing director, Paul Robinson, discuss the channel’s expansion and buying remit. TV KIDS: What is the overall mission of KidsCo? ROBINSON: KidsCo has been designed to be…complementary to the existing kids’ channels. We have …

As television executives converged onto Las Vegas last week for NATPE, there was much to be said about the changes in the syndication market in the U.S. over the last few years. Signaling a further shift in the business, domestic …

PARÍS: MIPDoc ha realizado una convocatoria de proyectos para ser incluidos en su nueva iniciativa Co-Productions Seeking Funding, producida en asociación con World Screen.   MIPDoc, la muestra y conferencia internacional para documentales y programas factuales, que se llevará a …