World Screen

NEW YORK: In New York today to meet with DreamWorks Studios’ partners Steven Spielberg and Stacey Snider, Anil Dhirubhai Ambani, the chairman of India’s Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, announced that there will be an initial $825 million in financing …

SANTA MONICA: Soap star Antonio Sabato Jr. searches for loves from a pool of 13 women in the new VH1 series My Antonio, premiering August 16. Contestants travel to a Hawaiian paradise to seek out a love connection with the …

LONDON: BBC Comedy has commissioned ITV Studios’ comedy division to produce the five-part online series Brian Pern, starring The Fast Show’s Simon Day. Brian Pern is a video-blog style sitcom, centered on a fictional character who was once a flamboyant …

NEW YORK: New research from MTV Networks has found that a five-second pre-roll combined with a ten-second lower-third ad unit is the most effective and the most audience-friendly ad product for short-form online video. The findings are revealed in Project Inform, …

MIAMI: Dori Media Group has reached an agreement for the Spanish brand-management outfit Elastic Rights to handle the rights for the format and finished version of the Argentinean teen series Champs 12 in Spain, Italy, Portugal, Greece and Turkey. The …

NEW YORK: PBS dominated the 30th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Award nominations with a total of 41, followed by CBS with 23, ABC and HBO/Cinemax with 13 each, National Geographic with 12 and NBC with ten. CNN picked up …

DHAKA: Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific (DNAP) has signed an exclusive agreement with Bashundhara Group that sees its bouquet of factual channels distributed in Bangladesh by Bashundhara Infotainment.  Bashundhara Infotainment will distribute Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and Discovery Travel & Living. Bashundhara …

NEW YORK/SYDNEY: FOXTEL is to assume expanded rights for multiplatform representation of content from A&E Television Networks (AETN) across Australia and New Zealand, according to terms of a new partnership agreement. FOXTEL currently programs, operates and distributes localized versions of …

SINGAPORE: Neil Montefiore is set to take over as the CEO of Singaporean quad-play operator StarHub following the retirement of Terry Clontz in January 2010. Clontz has been with the platform since its inception in 1999. He will remain on the …

MELBOURNE: EXERO HDTV has acquired the worldwide rights to The Asia-Pacific Chamber Music Competition, which it will offer as a format. Held at the Dame Elizabeth Murdoch Hall in the Melbourne Recital Centre from July 1 to 5, the music …