World Screen

MEXICO CITY: Televisa Internacional is heading to the Asia Television Forum with a slate of telenovelas, series and reality contests to present to buyers, with titles such as Wild Heart.  The 150×1-hour HD telenovela Wild Heart follows two individuals who fall …

LONDON: KidsCo has named Anna Pak as its commercial director for Western Europe. Pak will be tasked with expanding the channel’s presence in regions where KidsCo is already available, as well as closing carriage deals in territories such as France, Spain, Italy, …

LONDON/NEW YORK: Sangeeta Desai is to join the senior management team of HIT Entertainment in the role of chief operating officer. Desai will be responsible for the day-to-day operations of the company, and will oversee the business development, global brand …

NEW YORK: Showtime Networks and its licensing agency 360ep have struck several new licensing deals for the hit original series Dexter.  Triad Toys is developing a limited-edition collectible Dexter figure. The product will be produced in an initial run of 1,000 …

TORONTO/LONDON: Ahead of the Asia Television Forum, DECODE Enterprises has firmed up a string of sales in Asia across its preschool catalogue, which includes Franny’s Feet. okto in Singapore has picked up Super WHY! alongside deals for Halifax Films’ action-adventure series …

LONDON/LISBON: Chello Multicanal and ZON Multimédia have entered into a partnership for the production, marketing and distribution of children’s, movie and entertainment channels in Portugal and Portuguese-speaking Africa. The new company, Dreamia: Serviços de Televisão, is owned equally by both partners. Eduardo …

Allstream Centre at Exhibition Place Toronto, Canada The Alliance for Children and Television (ACT), which is celebrating its 35th anniversary, hosted its 2009 Children, Youth and Media conference last week, with a full day of presentations, panels and workshops. The …

  LONDON: Optomen International has closed new deals across seven different territories on two series featuring the famed British chef Gordon Ramsay. Deals have been firmed up for the fifth season of Gordon Ramsay’s F Word, currently airing on Channel …

LONDON: LIVING has commissioned the newly created prime-time entertainment format My Ugly Best Friend from ITV Studios. The hour-long series will premiere in December on LIVING. The show will transform women who find themselves living in the shadow of their …

RESTON: Twenty-eight billion videos were viewed online during the month of October by more than 167 million U.S.-based web users, according to ComScore, with Google sites accounting for 38 percent of all videos viewed online. Videos watched on YouTube accounted for …