World Screen

LONDON/TOKYO: NHK World TV, the English-language news and information channel from the Japanese pubcaster NHK, is joining the Freesat lineup in the U.K., effective tomorrow. Available in the "News and Sport" section of the EPG, the channel targets English speakers with …

SYDNEY: Beyond Distribution has licensed the fifth season of Taboo to National Geographic Channels International for rollout in 164 countries beginning this August. Greece’s SKAI TV also took the 15-part fifth season, as did MediaCorp in Singapore. The show, from Beyond Productions, explores …

PARIS: The French platforms CanalSat and Orange will broadcast coverage of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, which runs from May 13 to 24, on their dedicated TV Festival channel. Edited by Canal+ and co-produced by Canal+, Orange and the Festival de …

CHANNEL: Sky Arts COUNTRY: U.K. LAUNCH DATE: The service was launched under the name of Artsworld in 2000 by Sir Jeremy Isaacs and a group of partners. In 2003, BSkyB bought a 50-percent stake in the channel and then took …

President E1 Television International With offices in Toronto, Los Angeles, Montreal, New York, London, Holland and Belgium, E1 Entertainment is a truly international company. The group also has a wide focus when it comes to content, housing the broad slate …

LONDON: Sky1 has scored the first-run British rights to the hit medical drama House from NBC Universal International Television Distribution, after the first four seasons aired on terrestrial broadcaster Five. House will continue its second run in the U.K. on Hallmark, …

LONDON: Former BBC director-general Greg Dyke will chair a review of the U.K.’s creative industries by the Conservative Party, leading a panel that will include Shine’s Elisabeth Murdoch. According to published reports, other members of the 12-person panel include Carphone Warehouse’s Charles …

EDINBURGH: James Murdoch, the chairman and chief executive of European and Asian operations at News Corporation, will deliver the MacTaggart Lecture at this year’s MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, taking place August 28 to 30. Murdoch will deliver his address on August …

SAN JOSE/LAS VEGAS: Adobe Systems Inc. is expanding its Flash technology—the leading platform for online content—to Internet-connected TV sets, set-top boxes, Blu-ray players and other devices, facilitating the delivery of high-definition web video, games and more to the television screen. …

After hitting the highest ratings in its history in January 2009, the National Geographic Channel in the U.S. is looking to commission about 400 hours of programming this year, much of it in the genres of natural history, science, history, …