World Screen

There is a bit of a disconnection in the new-media world when it comes to the business of entertaining kids. Everyone in kids’ television recognizes that their networks and shows have to have elaborate new-media components to be full-time players …

President and CEO Dori Media Group   Dori Media Group has coined a phrase for the kind of titles it is offering on the international market: “new-velas.” The term reflects the company’s ambition to refresh and renew the telenovela genre, …

TORONTO: Incendo Media has acquired the Canadian distribution rights to Just Ask Baby, a new 12-part series designed to help first-time parents understand their infants. The first round of half-hour episodes has just been completed and is available for broadcast …

TRIVANDRUM/GALWAY: Toonz Animation India and Ireland’s Telegael Group are partnering to develop, co-produce and finance a slate of animated projects for the worldwide market. Toonz and Telegael previously worked together on Freefonix for the BBC. “Our fruitful partnership for the Freefonix project served …

DEVON: The animated series Grizzly Tales, which had a six-season run from 2000 to 2006 on ITV1, is being reinvented for Nickelodeon U.K., with 26 new 11-minute episodes based on the recent series of books written by Jamie Rix and …

LONDON: Discovery Networks EMEA has inked new carriage deals in Southern and Eastern Europe, including the expansion of ID Investigation Discovery into the Greek market. Discovery HD launched in Greece on IPTV provider Hellas Online’s on hol TV platform in May. The platform has …

Tween Hit-Maker Dan Schneider A self-professed kid at heart—actually he says he’s always going to be that cutup in class making fun of the teacher—Dan Schneider has the uncanny ability to be able to get into kids’ heads and think, …

HAMILTON: On July 1, Wallace Macmillan will relinquish his role as chief financial officer of Central European Media Enterprises (CME). He has held his role as CFO since 2003. Charles R. Frank, Jr. has been named interim CFO. Frank has served as an independent director of CME since 2001 …

NEW YORK: Bill McGoldrick is returning to USA Network as senior VP of original scripted programming, after previously serving as an executive in series development. McGoldrick will oversee all USA scripted development, reporting to Jeff Wachtel, the president of USA’s …

SEATTLE: Wetpaint, a developer of online communities, has released a new tool that measures a viewer’s online engagement with a TV show, revealing that the "most engaged" viewers spend up to five hours per week discussing a favorite series on …