World Screen

LONDON: Channel 4’s high-definition service is set to join Virgin Media’s HD offering, which today added FX HD, MTVNHD and National Geographic HD to its lineup. 4HD, delivering programming like Skins, Shameless and Desperate Housewives in high-definition, will launch on the service …

LOS ANGELES: David Simon, an industry veteran who has held senior-level executive roles at DreamWorks Animation, Fox Television Station Group and Disney, has been named to the advisory board of Israeli content creation and new-media outfit The Box. Simon, who …

LONDON: Microsoft is set to launch the MSN Video Player in the U.K. next week, delivering more than 300 hours of content online. The service will stream full-length episodes for free, supported by advertising. Initial content suppliers are BBC Worldwide …

LONDON: Two new appointments have been made within FremantleMedia’s worldwide drama division: Donna Wiffen as senior VP of production and network, and Sarah Hoeflich as the first to take on the newly created post of senior VP of editorial. Wiffen …

LONDON: Sky will launch the U.K.’s first 3-D channel next year, following the tremendous growth of its Sky+HD service. Sky+HD is the only HD platform in the U.K. capable of broadcasting 3-D services. Its base now stands at 1.3 million …

KUALA LUMPUR/SEOUL: At the Seoul International Cartoon & Animation Festival Promotion Plan (SPP), Malaysian animation production company Centraline Animation and Korean media content producer ToonZip announced the joint-production of a 3-D adventure comedy, Robot ARPO. The 52-episode animation series tells …

LONDON: Five has joined the BBC, ITV and BT as a partner on Project Canvas, the British broadband initiative to deliver Internet content to television sets. The proposed platform will bring broadband content to television sets for Freeview and Freesat …

PARIS: Tom Rogers, the CEO of TiVo, has been lined up to deliver a keynote at MIPCOM, sharing his vision for the future of television and advertising. The keynote, slated for October 7, will see Rogers being interviewed by The …

LONDON: UKTV has signed a content deal with Five and IWC Media to part-finance a second installment of Rory and Paddy’s Great British Adventure, while also acquiring the first. The 6×1-hour factual-entertainment series Rory and Paddy’s Even Greater British Adventure …

NEW YORK: Glenn Martin, DDS, a new stop-motion series from Michael Eisner’s Tornante Animation, is set for a prime-time debut on Nick at Nite on August 17. The contemporary comedy looks at the adventures of a beleaguered dentist and his family …