World Screen

SANTA MONICA: Graham King’s GK Films has launched a new company division dedicated to the development, production and worldwide distribution of TV programming, GK-TV, with former Lionsgate exec Craig Cegielski at the helm. As president of GK-TV, Cegielski will be …

LONDON: The average viewer in the U.K. watched 16 hours and 20 minutes of commercial broadcast TV a week from January to September this year, up 11 minutes from the same period last year, according to new figures from Thinkbox. …

LOS ANGELES: Nickelodeon has ordered a half-hour comedy pilot about a group of kids at summer camp from Peter Barsocchini, writer of the High School Musical movies.   Reveille and E1 Entertainment are co-producing the pilot, which follows a group …

LOS ANGELES: The yet-to-be named Discovery Communications-Hasbro children’s network, slated for launch in late 2010, has added four new senior executives to its team.   Amber Fredman-Tarshis has been appointed chief marketing officer, joining from a role as VP of marketing for Victoria’s Secret. Fredman-Tarshis …

LONDON: Morten Mogensen has been named CEO of Blu, FremantleMedia’s Danish production arm. Mogensen will be responsible for the development and production operations in Denmark, as well as for developing existing and new strategic relationships with both broadcast and non-broadcast partners …

LONDON: ITV Studios is to reorganize its program-making division into four content groups: entertainment, factual, daytime and scripted. Controllers will be renamed creative directors and their numbers reduced to eight. Though the restructure will result in the loss of around 15 …

LOS ANGELES: Univision Interactive Media, the digital division of Univision Communications, the leading U.S. Spanish-language media company, is partnering with YouTube to make short- and long-form Univision videos available on the YouTube.com website. Programming from Univision Communications’ three main networks, …

NEW YORK: Time Warner has announced it will spin off AOL to shareholders on December 9, thereby putting an end to one of the worst mergers in history. Time Warner shareholders of record on November 27 will receive an AOL …

NEW YORK: Gary Ginsberg, News Corporation’s executive VP of global marketing and corporate affairs, and close advisor to Rupert Murdoch, is stepping down at the end of the year. “Gary has been one of my most trusted and effective executives …

NEW YORK/STAMFORD: World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and USA Network have signed a four-year renewal agreement that sees WWE Monday Night Raw remain on the channel through fall 2014.  WWE Monday Night Raw is currently averaging 5.5 million total viewers. The show has seen a …