World Screen

  NORWALK: CABLEready has acquired the exclusive international distribution rights to the luxury travel series Wine Portfolio, produced by Re:Source Media. The 10×30-minute HD showcases wine-producing regions, which are also known for world-class food-and-wine consumption. Wine Portfolio is hosted by …

NEW YORK: Media Mundi has been appointed as HIT Entertainment’s TV broadcast agent in Brazil, where it has already secured distribution for Barney & Friends, Angelina Ballerina and Thomas & Friends on pubcaster TV Brasil. As part of the multi-year …

PAWTUCKET/NEW YORK: Hasbro has clinched a ten-year deal with Sesame Workshop, beginning in 2011, to manufacture and market toys and games based on Sesame Street. Hasbro is set to roll out products featuring the likes of Elmo, Big Bird, Abby …

  LOS ANGELES: The lives of the wives and girlfriends of some of the most elite basketball players in the NBA are put into the spotlight in the new VH1 original series Basketball Wives. The 8×30-minute series heads into production …

LORETO: Rainbow S.p.A. has closed a new round of deals for the fourth season of its hit Winx Club series, bringing the total number of countries that will air the latest installment to 100.  Cartoon Network in Australia and Asia, …

SILVER SPRING: Former FOX entertainment chief Peter Liguori is joining Discovery Communications as COO in January, replacing Mark Hollinger, who was recently named president and CEO of Discovery Networks International. Liguori takes up his new post on January 19, 2010, …

By Vivek Couto, the managing partner and a co-founder of MPA, an information-services group focused on media and related sectors in the Asia Pacific. What a difference a year makes. The market for media consumption and advertising expenditure has yet …

December 1-4 Melbourne, Australia Following a string of sold-out successes in Manchester (2006), New York (2007) and Florence (2008), the annual World Congress of Science and Factual Producers (WCSFP) kicked off yesterday in its 17th year, in Melbourne, Australia. The …

NEW YORK: Nielsen’s latest Three Screen Report reveals that while 99 percent of video content in the U.S. is viewed on traditional TV, DVR usage is up by 21.1 percent since Q3 2008, while online video usage is up by 34.9 …

LOS ANGELES: Latino 101 is a new 13-episode original comedy for Si TV that profiles Latino life in America through the perspective of 39 comedians and celebrities. Premiering January 8 at 9 p.m., Latino 101 features a collection of Latino …