World Screen

LOS ANGELES: Flavio Morales has been upped to senior VP of programming and production for mun2, where he will have the added responsibility of overseeing both West and East Coast production teams for the network. Morales joined mun2 in February …

LONDON: KidsCo has signed a deal with France’s SFR to launch the children’s channel as part of its triple-play product Neufbox. Programming will initially be in French and include shows such as The Wiggles, The New Adventures of Madeline and …

LONDON: Egmont has uncovered an original Mr. Men character from Roger Hargreaves, Mr. Nobody, which returns to bookshops after 20 years. The book brings the total number of classic Mr. Men books, represented by Chorion, to 47. Mr. Nobody is …

NEW YORK: HIT Entertainment has secured agreements with a number of new licensees to develop, manufacture and market new Thomas & Friends products in a variety of categories. Added Extras will be creating a line of Thomas-branded health and beauty …

NEW YORK: U.S. advertising revenues will rise 3.5 percent this year following last year’s decline, according to Barclays Capital, increasing to an estimated $167.6 billion. According to Bloomberg, the new forecast revises a previous report that saw U.S. adspend remaining …

BRYN MAWR: The Pennsylvania-based Steve Rotfeld Productions has announced the renewals of three of its weekly children’s series for fall 2010 with the FOX O&O and CBS Television Stations Groups. Wild About Animals and Awesome Adventures are currently cleared in …

LOS ANGELES: Shine International has taken the Strikeforce brand of mixed martial arts (MMA) programming into six markets across Europe, Australia and Latin America. The U.K.’s Bravo, Turner in Latin America, FX in Portugal, Ukraine’s Megasport, Seven Network Australia and …

LONDON: Food Network is continuing its international rollout with a launch on February 1 on Orbit Showtime Network (OSN), which will broadcast the channel across the Middle East with Arabic subtitles. The Middle East launch follows Food Network’s November debut …

NEW YORK: Lifetime Movie Network has reached 75 million subscribers throughout the U.S., and is cable’s fastest growing network for the second consecutive year. The network had an 11-percent increase in distribution from December 2008 and a 28-percent increase from …

NEW YORK: BET Networks, along with Queen Latifah, Sean "Diddy" Combs and Pharrell, is to host a televised concert and celebrity telethon aimed at supporting several organizations that are providing relief to Haiti. The two-hour telecast concert, SOS Saving OurSelves: …