World Screen

HALIFAX, September 3: DHX Media’s Halifax Film subsidiary will produce six episodes of a new one-hour family drama series for Vision TV in Canada. Mahalia, which is the working title, follows Mahalia Brown, a gifted young gospel singer who is …

VICTORIA, September 3: The Australian Children’s Television Foundation has completed Spanish and Latin American deals on the live-action children’s program Lockie Leonard. The program will make its Spanish-language debut on Cartoon Network Spain through Luk Internacional S.A. and Cartoon Network …

BUENOS AIRES, September 3: Production has begun at the Dori Media Contenidos studios in Argentina for Amanda O, the first telenovela produced for television, the Internet and mobile phones. The program will launch in October at MIPCOM. Episode number and …

HARRINGTON PARK, September 3: Alfred Haber Distribution, Inc. (AHDI) has been appointed as the exclusive international distributor for the 15th annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards, which will air live on the TNT and TBS Television Networks in the U.S. …

LONDON, September 3: Fireworks International has named Paul Lewis to the newly created position of VP of development, based in Los Angeles, to lead the acquisition and development of new scripted and non-scripted programming. Lewis was previously the director of …

PARIS, September 2: Vivendi’s second-quarter financials show a 15.1-percent increase in revenues, to 6 billion euros, while adjusted net income was stable at 757 million euros, with strong gains recorded at the Canal+ Group. Jean-Bernard Lévy, the chairman of Vivendi’s …

LONDON, September 2: The African pay-TV service GTV has received a further $35 million in funding, bringing its total investment capital to date to $200 million. The DTH platform is available in numerous African markets, including Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Namibia, …

NEW YORK, September 2: Data from Nielsen Media Research estimates that 38.4 million people tuned in to watch Presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama address the Democratic National Convention at the end of last week. The four days of coverage of …

LONDON, September 2: BBC Worldwide Channels has launched BBC Entertainment, BBC Lifestyle, BBC Knowledge and CBeebies in Africa on Multichoice’s DStv platform, featuring a range of first-run acquisitions. BBC Entertainment will include programs such as Primeval, Gavin & Stacey, Jekyll …

SINGAPORE, September 2: NBC Universal Global Networks will launch its package of four Asian channels—SCI FI, Universal Channel, Hallmark Channel and KidsCo—in Cambodia beginning September 9 on Star Digital TV. This makes Cambodia the second country in the Asia-Pacific region …