World Screen

Petra Schneider Director, Distribution   What are some of the highlights of the DW programming schedule?   We will be introducing four new programs from DW-Transtel at MIPCOM this year that offer a little something for everyone. Profit At All …

Tim Mutimer Senior VP, Sales & Distribution EMEA     What are some of your top properties for MIPCOM?   Long running drama series like Doctor Who and Torchwood are always big titles for us but we’ll also be focusing …

LONDON: The BBC Trust has launched a review of BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Four and the Red Button. Although this is part of a regular series of reviews, it will be the largest and most significant the Trust has …

SILVER SPRING: Next month, Planet Green is set to premiere the six-part series The 100 Mile Challenge, based on the 2006 bestselling book The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating. The show is being billed as part reality series, part docu-soap, …

TORONTO: DECODE Enterprises has notched up international sales in France, Scandinavia, Canada and Latin America for the family series Grandpa in My Pocket, produced by Adastra Creative. Canal+ in France, French-speaking TFO and Knowledge in Canada, CBeebies Latin America, Norway’s …

SCHAUMBURG/HONG KONG: STAR launched four of its South Asian channels—Star India Plus, Star One, Star India News and Star India Gold—on Comcast Cable in Chicago. The channels, delivering Hindi entertainment, news and Bollywood films, launched on Comcast in Chicago today. “We …

HONG KONG: Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has named Todd Miller as executive VP of networks for the Asia Pacific, overseeing all of the company’s channels across the region. Miller’s expanded remit includes the branded television networks AXN, ANIMAX and Sony …

LOS ANGELES: AmericanLife Network (ALN) has appointed industry veterans Ed Frazier, John Goldhammer and Jon Lunsford to take on senior roles at the baby-boomer network. Frazier will serve as managing director of network operations. Goldhamer will serve as executive VP …

WASHINGTON, D.C.: National Geographic Home Entertainment has tapped Warner Home Video to distribute its slate of documentaries in China, with 130 titles slated to be released in the first year. The shows will be made available in China through Warner Home …

PALISADES PARK: The Nash Entertainment series Breaking the Magician’s Code: Magic’s Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed has been sold by Alfred Haber Distribution, Inc. into new territories such as the U.K., the Middle East and Norway.   ITV4 in the U.K., …