World Screen

HARRINGTON PARK, September 23: Janson Media has prepared a slate loaded with travel, lifestyle, mystery, history and family entertainment programming for its 19th consecutive year at MIPCOM. For travel, Janson is offering Travel with Kids, Discoveries…Asia, Discoveries…India, Indique: Untold Stories …

PARIS, September 23: Foreign Body, from Cyber Group’s Pierre Sissmann and Michael Eisner of Tornante/Vuguru, has been nominated at the Official Selection of Web Series at the Festival Cinema Tous Ecrans. The American thriller serves as the prequel to the …

WINNEPEG, September 23: Children’s IPTV service Ameba has signed a deal with Barcelona’s Sol 90 to distribute Great Civilizations, a Spanish-language animated series, on AmebaTV.com. AmebaTV.com, a portal designed to deliver children’s entertainment directly to viewers via the Internet, will …

NEW YORK, September 23: With the ski season about to kick off, truTV will premiere the series Ski Patrol, which follows an elite group of patrollers with special training. The half-hour series makes its debut on October 20. It focuses …

STOCKHOLM, September 23: Oksana Ferchuk has been appointed as the new CEO of Viasat Ukraine, replacing Richard Caproni, who will assume the position of chief financial officer of the company. Previously Ferchuk was the marketing and sales director of the …

LOS ANGELES, September 22: AMC’s Mad Men made history at last night’s 60th annual Primetime Emmy Awards as basic cable’s first show to win the award for best drama, though HBO’s John Adams scored the most wins, with 13 in …

LOS ANGELES, September 22: After months of speculation, Steven Spielberg has clinched a deal with India’s Reliance ADA Group to finance his exit from Paramount Pictures, and is reportedly taking the DreamWorks SKG brand with him. Spielberg and DreamWorks’ cofounder …

LONDON, September 22: Jane Tranter, who is currently the fiction controller at BBC in the U.K., is set to move over to BBC Worldwide to drive its scripted and reality production business in North America. Tranter will leave her current …

TORONTO, September 22: Astral Media’s The Movie Network and Corus Entertainment’s Movie Central will launch HBO Canada on October 30 as a multiplex channel, at no additional charge to their current subscribers. Astral Media and Corus Entertainment have expanded on …

CULVER CITY, September 22: Shephen Chow is set to direct Seth Rogen and star opposite him as Kato in Columbia Pictures’ The Green Hornet, which is slated for release on June 25, 2010. Chow has starred in and directed films …