World Screen

BUENOS AIRES, January 5: Ahead of NATPE, Flor Latina Entertainment Group has added to its catalogue, scoring a deal to take on several successful Argentine shows from the producers Jorge Maestro and Sergio Vainman. With the deal, Flor Latina takes …

TV Kids Weekly, December 23, 2008 NAME: Jimmy Two Shoes ORIGIN: The series is based on an original idea. DISTRIBUTOR: Disney-ABC-ESPN Television has TV distribution rights for Europe and the Middle East. Breakthrough Entertainment has all other territories. CREATORS: Sean …

December 2008 Numbers and me—we never really got along. Fractions, percentages, equations, functions, proofs, sines and cosines, ooh, they would make my head explode. I’m definitely a word person, endlessly fascinated by the nuance of expression and the various ways …

SINGAPORE, December 23: Distributors concluded programming sales worth some $73.7 million at the Asia TV Forum in Singapore earlier this month, according to Reed Exhibitions, up from the $62.7 million in deals concluded at last year's event. Attendance was up …

LOS ANGELES, December 23: With its membership base divided, the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) has delayed the strike authorization vote originally scheduled for January 2. After failing to accept the final contract offer from the Alliance of Motion Picture and …

HONG KONG, December 23: Hong Kong tycoon Sir Run Run Shaw has confirmed plans to privatize Shaw Brothers—which owns a stake in terrestrial broadcaster TVB—for $172 million. The move sent the company’s stock up by some 58 percent today, peaking …

MUMBAI, December 23: UTV Software Communications has halted plans to launch its Bindaas and Bindaas Movies channels in Pakistan, and will cease releasing its movies in the territory, in the wake of the Mumbai attacks and India's increasingly strained relations …

NEW YORK, December 23: CBS Corporation has reached a deal to sell off three radio stations in Denver, Colorado, to Wilks Broadcasting for $19.5 million in cash. The deal includes KWLI-FM (country), KIMN-FM (adult contemporary) and KXKL-FM (classic hits). With …

HONG KONG, December 23: STAR is targeting Farsi-language speakers with a new general-entertainment service scheduled to launch early next year. The channel will feature programming from across the world and will target the 100 million-plus speakers of the Farsi language, …

NEW YORK, December 23: U.S. cable channel AMC has put in a pilot order for an untitled political thriller from writer and executive producer Jason Horwitch, to be produced by Warner Horizon Television. This is the third pilot order from …