World Screen

MUNICH/NEW YORK: Red Arrow Entertainment Group is boosting its alliance with the New York Television Festival (NYTVF), providing additional development and production opportunities for two new comedy projects from independent creators selected during the festival. Two of Red Arrow’s U.S.-based …

LONDON: ITV is acquiring Boom Supervisory, the holding company of the Twofour Group, which includes U.S.- and U.K.-based production outfits behind such shows as Educating Yorkshire, The Hotel Inspector and Posh Pawn. The group includes Twofour, Boomerang, Oxford Scientific Films, …

NEW YORK: David Hill, a veteran of 21st Century Fox, is exiting his role as the company's senior executive VP to launch a new production venture, Hilly. 21st Century Fox will back Hill's new outfit, which will focus on live …

PRAGUE: Adrian Hodges, whose credits include serving as co-creator and lead writer on Primeval and showrunner on The Musketeers and Survivors, kicked off the opening of NATPE Europe this morning with a breakfast keynote, in which he shared his experience …

LOS ANGELES: MarVista Entertainment has licensed the Lifetime movie A Deadly Adoption, starring Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig, to a number of broadcasters around the globe. A Deadly Adoption is headed to Shaw Media in Canada; Channel 5 in the …

MEXICO CITY: Global trade organization LIMA has partnered with Mexican licensing group PROMARCA to establish LIMA Mexico in an effort to extend its reach into Latin America. The new unit will operate under a license from LIMA, utilizing the association’s trademark …

PRAGUE: The pre-market sessions at NATPE Europe today included a look at the prodigal son of the content business, the co-production, with a panel that featured Versailles producer Claude Chelli, BBC Worldwide's Ben Donald, Sky's Anne Mensah and others. Once …

This interview originally appeared in the MIPTV 2015 issue of World Screen. Discovery Communications reaches some 3 billion cumulative subscribers in more than 220 countries and territories through more than 190 worldwide networks. Leading the pack of channels are Discovery …

LONDON: ZenithOptimedia is forecasting that the internet will be the largest advertising medium in 12 key ad markets in 2017, overtaking television. Last year, the internet was the dominant medium in seven markets: Australia, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden …

SEATTLE/LONDON: Amazon released all six episodes of season one of Catastrophe today, as Avalon Distribution announced it had clinched deals on the London-set comedy in a number of international markets. Written by comedian and best-selling author Rob Delaney and award-winning …