World Screen

April 2008 Lynda La Plante started her career as an actress, then became an author and screenwriter, creating the much acclaimed Prime Suspect series. She founded La Plante Productions to maintain control of her work and to have a say …

World Screen Weekly, July 17, 2008 Since joining BBC Worldwide in 2005 from Sony Pictures Television International, Darren Childs, the managing director of BBC Worldwide Channels, has been steadily building the company’s channels business around the world. Childs’ revamped strategy …

April 2008 Turn on your TV at any time of the day or night and you can find shows offering practical information on a wide range of topics such as home improvement, cooking or exotic travel destinations. But today’s media-savvy, …

TV Real Weekly, July, 16, 2008 Executive VP, Licensing, Americas FremantleMedia Enterprises Beginning early next year, visitors to the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida will get a small taste of what it’s like to be a part of American …

World Screen Weekly, July 17, 2008 COUNTRY: U.S. LAUNCH DATE: April 1, 2002, as a nighttime block on the preschool channel Noggin. It was relaunched as its own separate channel on December 31, 2007. OWNERSHIP: MTV Networks, a division of …

LOS ANGELES, July 18: The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) has formally rejected the final offer from the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), identifying new media as the main sticking point between the two organizations. “It’s not a …

MEXICO CITY, July 18: Revenues at Grupo Televisa for the second quarter gained 17.4 percent to Ps. 11.5 billion ($1.1 billion), delivering a consolidated net income of Ps. 2.3 billion ($227.7 million), reflecting a 4-percent increase on the year-ago period. …

NEW YORK, July 18: World Screen has promoted Kristin Brzoznowski to managing editor, and has appointed Jackie Stewart as associate editor, as it gears up to launch a range of new services in the coming months. Brzoznowski joined World Screen …

PARIS, July 18: The Spanish audiovisual industry will be highlighted at this year’s MIPCOM with a series of events and conferences organized in partnership with the Institute from Spanish Commerce Export (ICEX) and the Federation for Spanish Producers’ Associations (FAPAE). …

LONDON, July 18: The BBC has named Erik Huggers as its director of future media and technology, taking over from Ashley Highfield, who has left to become the CEO of Kangaroo, a proposed joint-venture on-demand service. Effective August 1, Huggers, …