World Screen

LONDON/BURBANK: Nicky Wood has been upped to senior VP of sales for Russia, Central and Eastern Europe and sub-Saharan Africa at Warner Bros. International Television Distribution. Based in London and reporting to Robert Blair, the senior VP and managing director for Northern …

LONDON: Home, the first of UKTV’s lifestyle channels to be rebranded, will launch on April 30 with a host of original commissions, including the brand-new series Gutted. In each episode of Gutted, an unsuspecting "hoarder" returns home to discover that …

SINGAPORE: Former Discovery Networks Asia executive Mark Whitehead has been tapped as the new general manager and senior VP of BBC Worldwide Channels Asia, where he succeeds Christine Leo-McKerrow. Based in Singapore, Whitehead will take on responsibility for the reach, ratings …

LONDON: The Day of the Triffids, an adaptation of John Wyndham’s best-selling novel for BBC One starring Dougray Scott, Joely Richardson, Eddie Izzard, Brian Cox, Vanessa Redgrave and Jason Priestley, leads off Power’s lineup of big-budget dramas for MIPTV. Also on …

SILVER SPRING: New appointments and promotions have been made within the Discovery Enterprises International program sales and licensing group, which is responsible for driving sales opportunities with international third-party broadcasters and licensees. Holly Roessler was named to the newly created …

TORONTO: marblemedia has begun production on the North American version of the hit British animated/live-action series Skatoony. The new version builds on the success of the Cartoon Network U.K. series, adding new voices, older contestants, an interactive website and new …

MIAMI: Telemundo has acquired the rights to develop a telenovela based on Spanish author Arturo Perez-Reverte’s novel La reina del sur (The Queen of the South). One of Spain’s bestselling novelist, Perez-Reverte has already seen his work adapted into feature films, such …

NEW YORK: Little Airplane Productions has presold Tobi!, its new series of four-minute interstitials, to Treehouse TV in Canada and Nickelodeon in Australia. Tobi! centers on a little boy who wants to make his world a better place to live …

ATLANTA: TBS plans to launch a new late-night talk show hosted by actor and comedian George Lopez, to air Monday through Friday in an 11 p.m. slot. The show, from 2.2 Productions, paraMedia and Telepictures Productions, in association with Warner …

TORONTO/LOS ANGELES/LONDON: Prentiss Fraser has been appointed VP and head of sales for the E1 Television International team, while Ben Bishop has been upped to sales executive and acquisitions manager. Formerly director of international sales at Oasis International, Fraser will …