World Screen

NEW YORK: BBC Worldwide America has extended Kids Preferred’s rights portfolio for Charlie and Lola to include eight new product categories, such as wooden toys and backpacks. Kids Preferred will also develop wood puzzles, children’s umbrellas, melamine tableware, felt and …

NEW YORK: Philippe Dauman, the president and CEO of Viacom, has been added to the keynote speaker lineup of the 2009 Media Summit New York, set to take place March 18 and 19. Dauman joins previously announced speakers Jeff Zucker, …

NEW YORK: Top Chef Masters, produced by Magical Elves with consulting producer Tom Colicchio for Bravo in the U.S., will feature 24 world-renowned chefs battling it out in a series of weekly competitions for a prize for the charity of …

WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Federal Communications Commission in the U.S. has sanctioned Time Warner’s spin-off of its cable platform, which is the second-largest in the country. "The transaction will lessen the extent to which TWC is vertically integrated with program providers …

STOCKHOLM: Modern Times Group has reported a fourth-quarter profit of SEK 528 million ($62.6 million), a 15-percent increase, with revenues up 18 percent to SEK 3.8 billion ($456.2 million). The group posted equally positive results in the year, with profit …

HONG KONG: Turner Broadcasting System Asia Pacific has aligned with Hong Kong’s CSL to launch a 24-hour Cartoon Network mobile TV channel on its Studio on Demand service.  The 24-hour Cartoon Network mobile channel will be available to all 1O1O …

NEW YORK: Spike TV has signed a multi-year talent and production deal for video game journalist Geoff Keighley to develop, executive produce and host a slate of original specials for the network. As part of the deal, Keighley will continue …

STOCKHOLM: NonStop Television is launching the new TV7 channel in Scandinavia on February 14, targeting women with exclusive series, romantic films and lifestyle shows.  The entertainment channel will focus on love, drama and passion. It will broadcast American dramas, sitcoms, …

NEW YORK: AETN International has signed up several new international broadcasters for its hit factual series Ice Road Truckers, among them, M6 in France. Season one was also licensed to TV3 in New Zealand and RTL Klub in Hungary. Season …

TORONTO: The Canadian performers union is calling on the CRTC to encourage local private broadcasters to ramp up their domestic content output in the wake of a report revealing a 7-percent rise in expenditures on imported fare. The Canadian Radio-television …