World Screen

LONDON, August 1: Playhouse Disney in the U.K. has acquired the new British preschool animation series Claude, which is scheduled to air later this year. The 52 ten-minute episodes of Claude are based on David Wojtowycz’s award-winning illustrated books and …

SINGAPORE, August 1: Adrenaline, housing professionally produced and user-generated youth-sports programming, has broken new ground as the first content initiative in Singapore developed for multiplatform delivery. Produced by Content Craft, Adrenaline was started with support from the Media Development Authority …

SILVER SPRING, August 1: Discovery Health will next month premiere a four-part documentary series that combines high-tech graphics with live-action footage to explore how humans think, move and age. Body in Numbers premieres September 3, airing Wednesday nights at 9 …

HARRINGTON PARK, August 1: Janson Media has released the four-hour eco-adventure series Water’s Journey to worldwide television, VOD, new media and DVD/video markets. Water’s Journey, filmed in high definition, follows a team of scientists and adventurers as they explore an …

DUBAI/BOGOTÁ,  August 1: KIT digital has secured a deal with e-nnovva, the recently created new-media division of RCN, to provide proprietary technology to host live streaming, VOD and live audio content in both long and short formats for the Colombian …

HONG KONG, August 1: Beijing Netmovie has inked a deal to distribute 662 Shaw Brothers films and 170 hours of original TV dramas from Celestial Pictures through a slew of Internet cafés in China. Netmovie has licensed the rights to …

BURBANK, July 31: Net income at The Walt Disney Company increased by 9 percent for the third quarter to $1.3 billion on revenues of $9.2 billion, which were up just 2 percent on the same period last year. Robert Iger, …

LONDON, July 31: Reporting a £499 million profit this time last year, BSkyB has recorded a loss of £127 million for the year ended June 30, 2008—despite a 9-percent increase in revenues to £4.95 billion—as a result of a ?616 …

NEW YORK, July 31: CBS Corporation has released its second-quarter results, with revenues and profit both up just 1 percent to $3.4 billion and $408 million, respectively, and announced a plan to sell off a slate of radio stations. "The …

STOCKHOLM, July 31: Modern Times Group is acquiring the parent company of the Bulgarian broadcaster Nova, which had an 18-percent audience share of the 18-to-49 set in the first half of this year, for 620 million euros in cash. MTG …