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TOKYO: The winners for the 36th Japan Prize, which recognizes high-quality educational media, were announced at a ceremony at the NHK Broadcasting Center, with the Grand Prix going to What’s Your News? from the U.K.’s TT Animation. What’s Your News? …

NEW YORK: truTV has greenlit a new show from Langley Productions, the outfit behind such real-life crime series as Cops and Inside American Jail, that will look at life within the confines of Las Vegas’s Clark County Detention Center. The network …

NEW YORK: WorldScreen.com is providing readers with an AFM preview site, AFM.WorldScreen.com, delivering a feature on independent distributors, an interview with Starz Entertainment’s Bill Myers, a range of resources and a special video report. To view it, please click here. …

NEW YORK: CBS Interactive’s CEO, Quincy Smith, will be stepping down from his role at the end of the year to start up an advisory business, where he will consult CBS Corporation on its digital-media strategy. Smith had led CBS …

BURBANK/MIAMI: In his new role as senior VP and general manager for Latin America at Warner Bros. International Television Distribution (WBITD), John Garcia will be responsible for all the company’s program licensing activities in region, along with supervising the sales …

Starz, LLC, consists of two main businesses, Starz Entertainment and Starz Media, and through them it provides a variety of content to consumers on several platforms: theaters, traditional linear TV channels, DVDs, and on-demand services on TV and via broadband …

LOS ANGELES: David Borshell, the former head of Image Entertainment, has teamed up with Andy Reimer, who was most recently at HBO Video, to launch Inception Media Group, an L.A.-based venture focused on the acquisition, production and distribution of films and …

This article originally appeared in the AFM ’09 issue. The financial crisis of 2008 did more than spark a series of controversial bank bailouts, shut off credit spigots, cripple the advertising market, and set off the biggest economic downturn since …

LONDON: Richard Sattin takes on the role of head of factual at Parthenon Entertainment with immediate effect.  Sattin will be responsible for developing new factual programming and supervising documentary production. He was formerly the managing director at Principal Films and head …

MUNICH: Tandem Communications has closed an output deal with Belgian broadcaster VMMa covering a range of TV movies and series, following similar agreements with Spain’s Cuatro, Slovakia’s TV JOJ and Romania’s ProTV. The broadcasting group has secured the rights to a …