World Screen

LONDON/ATHENS, January 5: Theodore Kyriakou, the Greek millionaire that heads up Antenna TV, is said to be looking to amass £2 billion to fund the acquisition of European media assets, with a focus on the U.K. In December, Guillaume de Posch, …

ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS/LOS GATOS, January 5: Expanding its alliance with Netflix, LG Electronics has unveiled a line of broadband-enabled high-definition TVs that will stream content directly from the online movie rental company. Netflix subscribers will be able to watch a library …

LONDON, January 5: The 26-year-old British actor Matt Smith has been cast as the new Doctor on the BBC's Doctor Who, replacing David Tennant, who leaves the show at the end of this year. Smith joins season five of the …

NEW YORK/LONDON/HONG KONG, January 5: HIT Entertainment has appointed Fisher-Price as the master toy licensee for the boy-skewing preschool property Thomas & Friends in a multi-territory, multi-year deal. Fisher-Price has been granted the global rights for Thomas & Friends, excluding …

LOS ANGELES, January 5: The new Showtime Networks original series United States of Tara, starring Toni Collette and John Corbett, will be available on Netflix on January 8, two weeks ahead of its premium cable premiere. Created by Academy Award-winning …

HILVERSUM, January 5: Martha Brass, whose prior experience includes roles at FremantleMedia and Simon Fuller's 19 Entertainment, has been named deputy COO of Endemol, based in the company's London offices. Reporting to Marco Bassetti, the COO of Endemol, Brass will …

WARSAW, January 5: Tim Horan is leaving his post as ITI Neovision's acquisition director to join the board of the digital terrestrial platform TV Numeric in Paris. Horan will take up his new post on January 12. TV Numeric is …

LONDON, January 5: BBC Worldwide has struck a three-year deal with Eurosport for the annual World Professional Darts Championship to air on both its European and pan-Asian channels. Eurosport will broadcast the championship across Europe, excluding the U.K. and Ireland, …

LOS ANGELES, January 5: Set to air on Hallmark Channel in late 2009, the new original movie Flower Girl follows a woman who has been unlucky in love, but finds two suitors who may be her perfect match. Marla Sokoloff …

SINGAPORE, January 5: MediaCorp's newly formed Interactive Media Division (IMD) will combine the online and mobile resources of the group's TV, radio, print, news and technologies divisions, in an effort to bolster the company's new-media activities. The IMD will run …