World Screen

BURBANK: Disney Channel’s hit series for preschoolers Handy Manny has been given an order for a further 29 episodes for a third season, along with a new short-form series and two prime-time specials. Handy Manny’s School for Tools, consisting of …

SILVER SPRING: ITV Global Entertainment has wrapped up its largest deal to date with Acorn Media U.S., in a move that sees more than 300 hours of its programming released on DVD and Blu-ray in North America over the next …

SYDNEY: LMNO Productions has named Southern Star International as the exclusive distributor for all its product outside of the U.S., covering both new titles and the existing catalogue of more than 950 hours of content. The first program announced under …

TORONTO: BBC Worldwide Canada and SPACE have firmed up an agreement for the four new specials from the long-running Doctor Who franchise and the third installment of the hit spin-off series Torchwood: Children of Earth. The deal sees SPACE take …

CHICAGO: Playboy Enterprises has announced Scott N. Flanders as its new CEO, also to serve as a member of the board of directors. Flanders is responsible for Playboy’s strategic direction and business operations. He joins the company from Freedom Communications, …

LOS ANGELES: Microsoft has plans to make its Xbox 360 game console into a portal for movies, TV and social networking, announcing new relationships with Facebook, Twitter and Sky. In harnessing the popularity of social networking, Facebook users would be …

LONDON: ITV is said to have opened discussions with BSkyB about moving its free-to-air digital channels to a subscription model. The move would take ITV’s three digital channels—ITV2, ITV3 and ITV4—off Freeview. Switching the digital channels to pay would mean …

NEW YORK: The results of a new poll show that only 22 percent of the "Generation Y" demographic—defined here as 18- to 24-year-olds—use Twitter, while 99 percent have a profile on a social-networking site. Conducted by Participatory Marketing Network and …

Marina Williams  CEO, Central and Eastern European Operations Endemol With 12 years of experience in the television business in Central and Eastern Europe, Marina Williams was a natural choice to run Endemol’s businesses in the region. Before joining Endemol at …

Exploring International HISTORY “The beauty of the HISTORY brand is that it allows us to look at a lot of different genres, because history touches just about everything,” says David McKillop, the senior VP of development and programming for series …