World Screen

LONDON: UKTV has appointed Catherine Mackin to the position of director of program acquisitions, taking up the new role on August 3. Mackin will have overall responsibility for UKTV’s acquisition strategy across its portfolio of ten channels. She will also …

LONDON/NEW YORK: The Chinese adaptation of Nickelodeon’s GUTS, called Tiao Zhan Xiao Yong Shi, is set to to premiere on state broadcaster CCTV this summer. The deal extends the long-standing relationship between Nick and CCTV and marks the first time that …

NEW YORK: The video for the new Peter Doherty track Broken Love Song debuts exclusively on web and mobile TV service Babelgum this month. Babelgum will also present Doherty’s live acoustic renditions of Arcady and Lady Don’t Fall Backwards, as …

HONG KONG: UTV’s Ronnie Screwvala, FOXTEL’s Kim Williams and ABS-CBN’s Eugenio Lopez III are among the speakers lined up for this year’s CASBAA Convention, taking place November 3 to 6 at Hong Kong’s Grand Hyatt Hotel. The theme of this year’s …

HONG KONG: Presented by Cartoon Network Asia Pacific and HP, the inaugural Toon Creator Award is an online animation contest for kids aged 6 to 14 across Australia, India, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore. Between July 13 and September 30, …

SOFIA/BURBANK: Central European Media Enterprises’ (CME) PRO.BG is to become the new Bulgarian home for TV series, feature films and animated series from Warner Bros. International Television Distribution (WBITD) via a multiyear output deal announced today that includes the hit …

NEW YORK: A wealth of historical footage that had been stored in Dwight D. Eisenhower’s former World War II headquarters has been resurrected by The Associated Press, which has plans to make the "lost archive" available in HD. Twenty-thousand film …

BRUSSELS: The European Commission today unveiled new rules for the funding of public-service broadcasters with a view to ensuring healthy competition in the media sector. The new framework replaces the Commission’s 2001 Broadcasting Communication and promises more accountability at the …

ENGLEWOOD: The long-running legal battle between DISH Network and TiVo took a new turn late yesterday after a Texas court granted the satellite platform a stay on a previously issued permanent injunction that would have disabled DISH customers’ DVRs. DISH and TiVo …

LONDON: Two new children’s programs are being made for CBBC, the sitcom Jinx and factual series This Kid Could Change the World. The commissions will be produced in Manchester, as will two other CBBC hits, Prank Patrol (season three) and …