World Screen

NEW YORK, June 20: Scholastic Media’s vocabulary-based 2-D animated series WorldGirl, produced by Soup2Nuts, won the award for Outstanding Writing in Animation at the 35th annual Creative Arts & Entertainment Daytime Emmy Awards. The series, which airs five days a …

LONDON, June 20: BBC Worldwide has reached an agreement with Gameloft for the creation of a mobile video game for the U.K. market that is based on its BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning motoring series Top Gear. Top Gear: The Mobile …

BUENOS AIRES, June 20: Dori Media Distribution has secured a raft of international sales for the telenovelas Lalola, Patito Feo and Rebelde Way. Lalola, which was nominated for 16 Martin Fierro Awards in Argentina and has been licensed into more …

MONTREAL, June 20: Distraction has secured new sales for its game-show format DNA in Scandinavia as well as the U.S. Nordisk has picked up the format for Denmark, Norway and Sweden, while Zodiak took on DNA for Finland. Distraction also …

NASHVILLE, June 20: Documentary Channel will air the U.S. debut of Saving the American Wild Horse, a documentary short directed by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker James Kleinert, in its Primetime Premieres programming block on Monday, July 7, at 9 p.m. Produced …

LONDON, June 20: BBC Worldwide sales and distribution has appointed Claudia Danser as the head of formats licensing for EMEA, effective in July. Reporting to Tim Mutimer, BBC Worldwide sales and distribution’s senior VP of EMEA, Danser will be responsible …

LONDON, June 19: According to PricewaterhouseCooopers (PwC), the global entertainment and media market will be worth some $2.2 trillion in 2012, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.6 percent over the next five years. A key trend going …

LOS ANGELES/LONDON, June 19: Twentieth Century Fox Television and British commercial broadcaster ITV have inked an international programming partnership that includes the creation of local versions of select titles in each other’s libraries. A British version of Dharma and Greg …

LONDON, June 19: BBC Worldwide has outsourced the collection of its secondary and tertiary rights revenues to Compact Collections in a four-year deal. Compact Collections will collect revenue for international cable and satellite retransmission, educational copying, public performance levies and …

NEW YORK, June 19: Susanne Daniels will resign from her post as the president of entertainment at Lifetime Networks, remaining in the position until she has identified a successor. Daniels, who joined Lifetime in August 2005, is responsible for all …