World Screen

LONDON, November 12: Dawn Airey is busy assembling her new team at Five, tapping Sky's Richard Woolfe to be the channel's controller. The announcement follows news that Jeff Ford would leave Channel 4 to become managing director of digital channels …

MUNICH, November 12: BSkyB's Nicola Bamford has been tapped to take over the responsibilities of Premiere's chief programming officer, Hans Seger, who is leaving the German platform at the end of January. "I had eight thrilling and exciting years at …

NEW YORK, November 12: Since presenting Seven Ages of Rock to buyers at the BBC Showcase Latin America in September, BBC Worldwide Americas has notched up a string of sales for the music-focused series in Brazil, Paraguay and Chile, among …

SYDNEY, November 12: Southern Star International's half-hour series Animal Emergency has been scooped up by Virgin Media Television to air on LIVING2 in the U.K. Produced by Nine Network Australia, Animal Emergency looks at one of the world's largest animal …

SÃO PAULO, November 12: At MIPCOM, Globo TV International notched up a number of new agreements on its telenovelas with international broadcasters, including the recently launched French channel IDF1. IDF1 took on the telenovela Shades of Sin, written by João …

HONG KONG, November 12: SPE Networks—Asia has struck a deal that sees the AXN and Animax channels being offered on KT’s IPTV platform Mega TV in Korea beginning November 17. First launched in Korea in July 2005 via the SkyLife …

HARRINGTON PARK, November 12: Discovery Communications Europe has picked up two military history documentaries from Janson Media—B-17: Flying Legend and The Last Ridge: The Uphill Battles of the 10th Mountain Division—to air on Historia Poland. Produced by Fortress Films, B-17: …

LONDON/SINGAPORE, November 12: The Singaporean production house Peach Blossom Media and the British distributor Evergreen Entertainment have inked a deal for the development, production and exploitation of new animated content for the global market. Peach Blossom will tap into Evergreen's …

MIAMI, November 12: A number of new Spanish-language preschool series are slated to premiere on Discovery Familia within its Discovery Kids en Español daytime block, including Mister Maker. Kicking off on November 17, Mister Maker aims to stimulate children's creativity …

MIAMI, November 12: Telemundo Internacional's Without Breasts There's No Paradise, adapted from the hit Colombian telenovela, launched on TV Kosova in Serbia last night, following its recent rollout in Bulgaria. The telenovela follows a beautiful girl who is desperate to …