World Screen

CANNES: Brian Goldner, the president and CEO of Hasbro, spoke about the move into becoming a branded play company in his keynote speech at MIPCOM, followed by a Q&A with Anna Carugati, the group editorial director of World Screen. After …

CANNES: Shaftesbury Films has been given the go-ahead on the half-hour series Good Dog, written by and starring producer and creator Ken Finkleman, by Astral Media’s The Movie Network and Corus Entertainment’s Movie Channel. The series is set for production …

CANNES/LOS ANGELES: Flashpoint has been ordered for a further 13 episodes by CBS Television Network in the U.S., following the pickup from Canada’s CTV. The total number of episodes in the series is brought to 44. Starring Hugh Dillon, Enrico …

LONDON/NEW YORK: Bloomberg Television is partnering with the Turkish media group Ciner Media to roll out the 24/7, local-laguage service BloombergHT (Haberturk). BloombergHT will deliver Turkish-language, real-time financial news and business information via carriage on cable and satellite platforms across Turkey …

CANNES: CBS’s new hit series NCIS: Los Angeles is headed to Scandinavia on TV3, with CBS Studios International licensing the exclusive free-TV rights to Viasat Broadcasting. Viasat will air the show in the spring of 2010 on TV3 in Sweden, Norway and …

BURBANK: Rich Ross, currently the president of Disney Channels Worldwide, has been tapped to succeed Dick Cook as the chairman of The Walt Disney Studios, overseeing worldwide production, distribution and marketing for the company’s live-action and animated feature film labels. Reporting to …

Guest commentary from Paul Zilk, the president and CEO of Reed MIDEM. The international television industry has gone through so many changes in the past 25 years that the vocabulary we use today would have been mostly unrecognizable to delegates …

TERRITORIES: U.K. and Ireland and South Africa LAUNCH DATE: July 2006 in the U.K. and Ireland; February 2007 in South Africa OWNERSHIP: A joint venture of A&E Television Networks (AETN) and BSkyB DISTRIBUTION: Number of homes reached: 12 million in …

ORIGIN: An original idea from J.J. Johnson, a partner at the Canadian production house Sinking Ship Entertainment. DISTRIBUTOR: Breakthrough Entertainment holds the worldwide rights, excluding the U.S. PorchLight Entertainment is the U.S. sales agent for Dino Dan. CREATOR: J.J. Johnson …

CANNES: HIT Entertainment has signed new deals worldwide for the CG series Angelina Ballerina: The Next Steps, and has also made progress on its development slate, which includes Hippo’s House. In addition to co-productions in the U.K. with Nick Jr and …