World Screen

NEW YORK, July 28: The weekly arts and cultural program SundayArts, produced by Thirteen/WNET, has begun featuring segments of the award-winning Bloomberg Television program Bloomberg Muse. Yesterday’s Bloomberg Muse segment of SundayArts profiled the world-renowned choreographer Alexei Ratmansky, who resigned …

SILVER SPRING, July 28: Angela Shapiro-Mathes has left her post as the president and general manager of TLC and has been replaced by Eileen O’Neill, a 17-year veteran of Discovery Communications. During her time at TLC, Shapiro-Mathes completed a three-year …

SINGAPORE, July 28: Wong Swee Teng has been named the new managing director and chief representative of ESPN STAR Sports (ESS) China. Wong will be responsible for the strategic direction and growth of ESS’s operations in China as well as …

LONDON, July 28: Kate Shepherd has been hired by Simon Fuller’s 19 Entertainment to develop new projects from the company’s London office. Shepherd previously worked as a development producer for Endemol, overseeing shows such as Coleen’s Real Women on ITV …

TV Kids Weekly, July 22, 2008 ORIGIN: Dinosaur King was developed as a multiplatform media property, which includes the TV series as well as a popular arcade game in Japan. DISTRIBUTOR: 4Kids Entertainment (worldwide excluding the Middle East and Asia) …

 April 2008 In the last decade, TV Azteca has positioned itself as a leading producer of Spanish-language content, and it’s the second-largest free-TV broadcaster in Mexico, where it operates Azteca 13 and Azteca 7, two national networks targeting young adults. …

April 2008 Sheila Nevins, the president of HBO Documentary Films, loves ordinary people and the extraordinary stories they can tell. She has overseen such programs as Alive Day Memories: Home From Iraq, a 10-part series that conveys the physical and …

April 2008 What do you think of when you hear the words “science documentary”? Old men in white coats trying to explain obscure concepts? Amateurish diagrams of orbiting spheres and geological layers? Saturday morning TV? Think again. Those old stereotypes …

World Screen Weekly, July 24, 2008 Executive VP and General Manager CBS Consumer Products In the wake of the tremendous success of the CSI franchise, universities across the U.S. have reportedly seen a dramatic increase in the number of students …

TV Real Weekly, July 23, 2008 American Public Television Delivering high-quality, viewer-friendly programs to U.S. public television’s 360-plus stations has been American Public Television’s (APT) mission for nearly five decades, while its international sales division, APT Worldwide, has expanded the …