World Screen

LONDON: BSkyB’s profit for the first quarter rose by 75 percent from £73 million to £128 million, with revenues increasing by 10 percent to £1.38 billion and its customer base growing by 94,000 to reach 9.536 million homes. “Our business …

LONDON: The BBC is allocating an additional £25.5 million to its children’s services over the next three years, following a review of the pubcaster’s kids’ output by the BBC Trust. The BBC Trust, in its review earlier this year, found …

SINGAPORE: Man Shu Sum, formerly CEO of Mark Burnett Productions Asia, has been named managing director of MediaCorp Raintree Pictures. In addition to his stint at Mark Burnett Productions Asia, Man Shu Sum has held senior management positions in the then Television Corporation of …

LONDON/NEW YORK: The Yes Men, a group of activists that stage pranks and hoaxes targeting politicians and corporations, have launched a dedicated channel on Babelgum. The group’s most recent documentary, The Yes Men Fix The World is currently rolling out …

MADRID: Zinkia has launched Pocoyo World, a virtual universe that allows children, parents and caregivers to share in a host of fun and educational activities with their favorite characters from the property.  With the full backing of Internet security operator Protégeles, the …

MIAMI: Boomerang in Latin America has set a November 2 premiere date for the new season of Venevision International’s (VVI) teen series Somos tú y yo: Un nuevo día (You and Me: A New Day).  You and Me: A New Day takes …

LONDON: Shine TV has received a commission from UKTV for a new game show, What Do Kids Know?, that is slated to launch on Watch early next year. The show pairs celebrities with kids and attempts to unravel what goes on …

TORONTO: The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) has lined up the TV broadcast premieres and a host of additional Canadian and U.S. screenings for Paris 1919, which comes out on DVD in North America this week through BFS Entertainment. Inspired by …

LONDON: Richard Roxburgh, Frances O’Connor, Stephen Moyer and Sam Neill are among the cast of Power’s new disaster epic Ice, based on the book by James Follett and directed by Nick Copus. The cast lineup announced today includes Richard Roxburgh (Stealth, Van Helsing, …

PARIS: Jean-Marie Messier, the ex-CEO of Vivendi, and other former senior executives from the company, including Edgar Bronfman Jr., have been ordered to stand trial in Paris on charges of misleading shareholders. The investigation into Messier’s dealings at the company have …