World Screen

TORONTO: David Weitzman has joined the ole Los Angeles team as director of business development. Over the last eight years, Weitzman has been music supervisor on a variety of programs, including Party Monsters for E! Networks; Rob and Big, Runs …

SAN FRANCISCO: Joy Tashjian Marketing Group (JTMG) has appointed Lisa Napolitano as director of sales and retail and Heather Cavalli as product development and administration coordinator. Napolitano joins JTMG with a background in strategic marketing, licensing and retail business development …

GENEVA: Rights-management collection organization AGICOA has appointed Paul Duggan as its CEO, effective immediately. Duggan was previously CEO of consultancy firm Intermedia Partners, and for the last ten years has advised corporations and governments in Europe, Asia and the Middle …

LOS ANGELES: Jeff Pryor, the former executive VP of corporate communications for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (MGM), is returning to Priority PR to head up the marketing and publicity agency, which he founded in 1990. Pryor is bringing on MGM as a …

SILVER SPRING: Reel Impact, a programming block dedicated to films about human impact on the environment, will air from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. every Saturday on Planet Green. The block will repeat Thursdays at 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. …

MUNICH/LONDON: TV-Loonland has secured a pan-European deal with Bandai Europe for capsule vending-machine toys for its comedy series Pat & Stan, which landed the Jury’s Special Prize for Best TV Series at the Annecy Animation Festival last week. A further …

LONDON: CAKE Entertainment is in the works on a live-action/CG hybrid tween comedy pilot for Cartoon Gene, co-produced with Galakids and TELETOON Canada. Cartoon Gene follows the life of a teenage human boy who has cartoon DNA. Gene’s mom is a computer-generated …

NEW YORK: Global ImageWorks has been named the exclusive worldwide clip-licensing representative for the iconic series Soul Train by Direct Holdings Americas. The deal includes the clip licensing of more than 1,100 weekly Soul Train episodes, 20-plus Soul Train award …

LONDON: Telecinco in Spain and ITV Studios are to co-produce 300 new episodes of Pasapalabra, an ITV Global game-show format. Filming will begin July in Madrid, Spain, with the premiere slated for fall. Pasapalabra airs seven days a week on …

SAN FRANCISCO: TV.com has signed an agreement that allows users to find and schedule TV shows to record on their TiVo DVR directly through the website. TV.com users that have a TiVo Series2 or Series3, TiVo HD or TiVo HD …