World Screen

JOHANNESBURG/NEW YORK, August 7: Sesame Workshop’s award-winning South African children’s show Takalani Sesame has added four new languages —Sesotho, Xitsonga, isiXhosa and Afrikaans—for the program’s fifth season to debut on SABC this August. Takalani Sesame will include new characters and …

LONDON, August 7: The Criterion series Biker Mice from Mars will premiere in the U.S. on August 9 on 4Kids TV, FOX’s Saturday morning programming block, before launching in several other markets this fall. The series has already launched in …

LONDON, August 7: Tiger Aspect’s commercial director and senior VP of international production, Jamie Munro, will assume a joint managing director role at Shine Television, alongside Karen Smith, who has been upped from director of programs. Smith and Munro will …

LONDON, August 7: UKTV has appointed two new channel heads, Adrian Wills for UKTV People and Richard Kingsbury for UKTV History, in preparation for the re-branding of its factual portfolio in 2009. Both will assume their new responsibilities immediately and …

HONG KONG/TOKYO, August 7: Hiromu Iwamoto has been named STAR’s VP of advertising sales for Japan, where he will oversee advertising sales activities for the company’s regional office in Tokyo. Prior to joining STAR in July, Iwamoto served as the …

NEW YORK, August 6: Time Warner increased its revenues by 5 percent to $11.6 billion in the second quarter, but net profit was down 26 percent to $792 million. Announcing the results, Time Warner’s CEO, Jeff Bewkes, said: “I’m pleased …

NEW YORK, August 6: Fourth quarter net profit at News Corporation increased by 27 percent to $1.1 billion on revenues of $8.6 billion, reflecting a 17-percent rise on the year-ago period. For the full year, meanwhile, revenues were up by …

LONDON, August 6: Impairment charges have left ITV plc with a loss for the first six months of the year of £1.5 billion, versus the £85 million profit recorded in the year-ago period. The non-cash impairment charge of £1.6 billion …

ENGLEWOOD, August 6: For the second quarter, revenues at Liberty Global were $2.73 billion, 25-percent higher than the same period last year, with a net profit of $428 million, as compared with last year’s loss of $130 million. At the …

CHICAGO, August 6: Playboy Enterprises has released its second quarter results, with revenues down 14 percent to $73.4 million, and a loss of $2.1 million, as compared with the year-ago profit of $1.9 million. Playboy’s chairman and CEO, Christie Hefner, …