World Screen

PARIS, November 18: France Télévisions Distribution International has tapped HOLA Entertainment to represent its catalogue, excluding animation, across Latin America. "HOLA Entertainment’s appointment is in keeping with our strategy to better serve our international buyers’ needs by creating a sales …

TEL AVIV, November 18: Dori Media Group will be offering buyers at the upcoming Asia TV Forum a range of new telenovelas, headlined by Cupid: The Business of Love. Cupid is a romantic comedy starring Ana Maria Orozco, who starred …

LOS ANGELES, November 18: Production has begun on a new western-themed original movie for Hallmark Channel titled Kingdom Come, which stars Dean Cain in the lead role. The movie is being shot in Vancouver and tells the story of a …

LOS ANGELES, November 18: G4 Investigates: Tech Fight Clubs, airing on G4 on December 13 at 10 p.m., takes a look at real underground clubs in Silicon Valley where grown men gather to beat each other up. The special focuses …

MUNICH, November 18: Michael Bütow, the senior VP of international production for ProSiebenSat.1, has been tapped to lead the group’s efforts in producing German productions and co-productions outside of Germany. Bütow will be responsible for both fiction and non-fiction programming …

SINGAPORE, November 18: SPE Networks—Asia has named three new executives to its head office in Singapore, including Kim Sang-Im taking up the newly created position of director for Korea and new media. Kim joined SPE Networks—Asia in September and already …

LONDON, November 17: For 77 percent of European respondents of a new YouGov survey, daily access to the Internet is more important than the use of a car or washing machine, while the same number indicated that they had watched …

LONDON, November 17: ITV has agreed to a set of terms on product placement with the Pact independent producers body, should the practice win the approval of the British government. Proposals to allow product placement in certain programs are being …

NEW YORK, November 17: For the third quarter, revenues at Univision Communications fell slightly to $511.3 million, while a $3.7 billion impairment charge resulted in a net loss of $2.9 billion, as compared with the year-ago loss of $26.8 million. …

HONG KONG, November 17: For the 1,700-plus attendees of the CASBAA Convention in Hong Kong, a key theme was the continued growth of Asia's pay-TV market in the face of the global economic downturn. The event, organized by the Cable …