World Screen

 LONDON: Outright Distribution has scored more than 50 hours of programming sales in Asia, with deals across the Shed Media catalogue and third-party-produced shows. In Japan, the third season of The Choir, produced by Twenty Twenty, was bought by MICO …

NEW YORK: The winners across ten categories were named at last night’s International Emmy Awards Gala, with five wins going to the U.K.   The performance wins both went to British talent, with Ben Whishaw named best actor for the …

Four years in the making, David Attenborough’s ten-part natural-history series Life features footage of how different animals and plants struggle to stay alive. Many of the same groundbreaking photographic and technological advances that were used in the worldwide phenomenon Planet …

  This article originally appeared in the MIPCOM ’09 issue.   For decades, Nielsen has been synonymous with ratings and research about television and advertising. It continues to track audience and consumer trends even as technology offers new ways of …

  This article originally appeared in the MIPCOM ’09 issue.   Phrases like “Is that your final answer?” “No whammies, no whammies, no whammies!” and “Come on down!” have all made their way into the pop-culture lexicon courtesy of game …

Ahead of the Asia TV Forum in Singapore next month, World Screen Weekly catches up with some of the region’s top buyers about their acquisitions remits. ABS-CBN, The Philippines Leng Raymundo, the VP and head of program acquisitions for Filipino …

Jon Kramer, the chairman and CEO of Rive Gauche Television, talks to TV Real about the advantages of having strong brands to offer broadcasters. The premiere of the fifth season of Operation Repo last week scored truTV’s largest audience ever …

  MUNICH: Bavaria Media Television will present new programming highlights at this year’s German Screenings, among them Prisoner of Love. Prisoner of Love is set in the final days of World War II and features Barbara Sukowa in the leading …

HARRINGTON PARK: Nicola McAllister has been appointed as a sales executive at Janson Media, where she will be responsible for TV and VOD markets in Eastern Europe.  Previously, McAllister worked as a sales exec for Network Ireland Television for six years before …