World Screen

LOS ANGELES/PALO ALTO, November 3: MySpace has partnered with Auditude and Viacom in an initiative that creates advertising opportunities in pirated MTV Networks content uploaded to the social-networking site. Auditude's technology allows for advertising to be inserted into a range …

LONDON, November 3: BSkyB is said to be in exclusive talks to acquire Tiscali's British broadband operations for a reported £450 million. According to the British press, the deal, if completed, would make Sky the third-largest broadband supplier in the …

LOS ANGELES, November 3: Anne Sweeney, Chuck Lorre, Tyler Perry and Ben Silverman have been named as the recipients of the 2009 Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Award, which will be presented at NATPE on January 26 in Las Vegas. Sweeney is …

HILVERSUM, November 3: As part of its efforts to ramp up its business in Asia, Endemol has named Arjen van Mierlo as its new CEO for this region, effective early next year. Formerly the head of international operations at Endemol, …

ABU DHABI, November 3: Imagenation Abu Dhabi has entered into a $250-million financing deal to develop, produce and distribute feature films with Ashoj Amritraj's Hyde Park Entertainment in Los Angeles. The deal calls for the creation of up to 20 …

TORONTO, November 3: CTV has ordered 11 hour-long episodes of The Bridge, a new drama executive-produced by former Toronto police union head Craig Bromell. The full series order follows the production of a two-hour pilot last summer. The show looks …

DALLAS, November 3: ABC Radio Networks and Comcast Entertainment Group have signed a product development and distribution agreement that sees branded content from E! Entertainment, The Style Network and G4 available to radio audiences for the first time. E! will …

LONDON/NEW YORK, November 3: Chorion and Shanghai Media Group (SMG) have entered into a partnership to jointly develop new animation projects targeted at the 6-to-11 set for the worldwide market. The creative development process will begin almost immediately. Chorion and …

SINGAPORE, November 3: The Singapore Sports Council (SSC) and the Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA) have launched the SSC-MDA Sports Media Fund to support the creation of multiplatform local sports content. The S$1 million fund was set up to …

LONDON/LOS ANGELES, November 3: Courtney Williams, formerly with MGM, and Nicolas Bonard, an ex-MTV Networks International executive, are heading up the new international film-and-TV-distribution firm ScreenOpus, which makes its U.S. market debut at the American Film Market this week. Williams …