World Screen

Banff World Television Festival June 7-10, Fairmont Banff Springs, Banff, Alberta, Canada For 30 years, the Banff World Television Festival has been luring attendees to the Canadian Rockies for several days of networking and creative inspiration. With workshops, panels and …

OSLO: A joint venture of Norwegian broadcasters NRK, TV 2 and Modern Times Group has launched MiniTV, a mobile-TV service delivering six free-to-air channels using the DMB (Digital Multimedia Broadcasting) standard. The service was launched by the joint venture, the Norwegian …

LONDON: ITV Global Entertainment, home to the U.K.’s largest library of British films, has notched up a host of DVD and Blu-ray deals on Michael Powell’s acclaimed 1948 film The Red Shoes. The digitally restored version of the film premiered at …

HILVERSUM: The Argentine actress Florencia Bertotti, whose credits include the hit Floricienta, is on board for a new family comedy from Endemol that is being launched at the L.A. Screenings. Nini is a 120-part series that is being filmed in Buenos Aires. …

LONDON: BBC Worldwide has announced the launch of a magazine and range of books for the hit preschool series In the Night Garden in China, along with signing a DVD partner for the Ragdoll-produced show. Licensing agent U Young has …

HBO: Looking Both Near and Far For the past three nights (May 10 to 12) on HBO, The Alzheimer’s Project has been putting the spotlight on the faces behind the disease, and the forces leading the way to finding a …

LONDON: Michele Pearce, formerly the senior U.K. and international licensing manager at Jetix Consumer Products U.K., has joined BKN New Media as VP of licensing and merchandising. Pearce will coordinate worldwide licensing and merchandising activities with her counterpart, Jesus Diaz, …

Star Wars: The Clone Wars‘ Dave Filoni Dave Filoni has spent a long time immersed in the Star Wars universe. A fan of the franchise since childhood, Filoni today serves as the supervising director of Lucasfilm Animation’s Star Wars: The …

NEW YORK: FOX kicked off the network Upfront presentations today, announcing two new dramas, Human Target and Past Life, for the fall season, along with four comedies and one late-night show. Announcing the 2009-2010 season, Peter Rice, the chairman of entertainment at Fox Broadcasting …

NEW YORK/PHOENIX: The 600-title film catalogue of Moving Pictures Film & Television, which includes the latest in the well-known Hellraiser franchise, Hellraiser IV: Bloodline, is to be represented in Latin America by Bender Media Services. Also among the titles Bender …