World Screen

VANCOUVER: Shattered, the new E1 Entertainment and Force Four Films original series for Canwest, has been slated for a 2010 premiere on Showcase, with Molly Parker set to star alongside Callum Keith Rennie and Camille Sullivan. Rennie (24, FlashForward, Battlestar …

MONTREAL: The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is paying tribute to the life and work of Quebec film director Gilles Carle, who passed away on Saturday, by making eight of his films available on NFB.ca, in French. Carle spent …

SILVER SPRING: Planet Green is to host the U.S. premiere of five new series acquired from Canada and the U.K. that will debut during Premiere Week 2010, which kicks off January 4.  On January 4 at 10 p.m., the 4×1-hour …

CHICAGO: Jimmy Jellinek has been tapped to fill the newly created position of chief content officer at Playboy Enterprises, overseeing content development across television, online, mobile, film, radio and print assets. Jellinek takes on the role after serving as the …

NEW YORK: Syfy has ordered 13 episodes of E1 Entertainment’s supernatural drama Haven, based on the Stephen King novella The Colorado Kid, for rollout on its feeds worldwide, excluding Canada and Scandinavia. Production on the new series is slated to …

NEW YORK: David Sternberg is stepping down as the executive VP and COO of emerging networks at Fox Cable Networks, where his remit includes Fox Soccer Channel, Fox Sports en Español and FUEL TV. Sternberg leaves at the end of …

SINGAPORE/HONG KONG: HBO Asia is teaming with the Hong Kong-based Chinese-language content producer Mei Ah Entertainment Group for a new Asian movie channel set to roll out in 2010. The new service will be HBO Asia’s first service exclusively featuring …

LONDON: India is on track to become the world’s 15th largest advertising market this year, according to GroupM, with a 6-percent growth forecast for 2010. Media buyers in the smallest of the BRIC countries are making the most of soft …

NEW YORK: Vivendi is said to have agreed to sell its 20-percent interest in NBC Universal for $5.8 billion, clearing the way for Comcast Corporation’s joint venture with GE. According to U.S. reports, Vivendi has agreed in principle to the …

Indian entertainment channels are putting their own spin on international concepts to give themselves a competitive edge. In a year when dwindling local-production budgets put a question mark over the health of the format business, India has emerged as one …