World Screen

LOS ANGELES, June 19: YouTube is rolling out a dedicated area that will showcase an international selection of short and feature-length films, allowing filmmakers from around the world to distribute their work and generate revenue. The YouTube Screening Room will …

HONG KONG, June 19: India’s INX Media will roll out its Hindi general-entertainment channel 9X, along with its music network 9XM, in the Middle East. INX Media has appointed Dubai-based consultancy outfit Media Solutions to spearhead its expansion into the …

MIAMI, June 19: Telemundo Communications Group revealed that Monday’s debut of the telenovela Sin senos no hay paraíso drew 749,000 adults aged 18 to 49, ranking as the night’s highest-rated premiere in the Nielsen Television Index (NTI) for the 10 …

LONDON/BUDAPEST, June 19: BBC Worldwide announced in Budapest today a 180-hour content deal with the Kazakhstan broadcaster Kahbar Agency covering a range of genres. “We haven’t done something there in a couple of years,” Christine Muller, the territory manager for …

LONDON, June 19: ALL3MEDIA International has licensed a range of dramas into Central and Eastern Europe for broadcast and home-entertainment distribution, including Midsomer Murders. Several of the deals were finalized at DISCOP. The thrillers He Kills Coppers and Cape Wrath, …

NEW YORK/STOCKHOLM, June 19: VOOM HD Networks and NonStop Television have inked a deal to distribute the action-sports channel RUSH HD into the Nordic and Baltic regions. This agreement adds to the companies’ current partnership, which brought VOOM HD into …

NEW YORK, June 19: The N has teamed up with Reveille for a new one-hour teen reality series, The N’s Student Body, premiering July 11 at 10 p.m. with a simulcast launch on Nick at Nite. Hosted by famed athlete …

MIAMI, June 19: Nickelodeon Latin America is launching a refreshed image campaign for the family-programming block Nick at Nite, complete with new promos, IDs, fillers, bumpers and classic series. The logo for Nick at Nite has been changed to orange …

SAN FRANCISCO, June 19: VIZ Media has licensed the North American trading-card game rights for its animated property Blue Dragon to Konami Digital Entertainment (KDE). Under the agreement, KDE will exclusively manufacture and distribute a Blue Dragon-branded trading-card game and …

TORONTO, June 19: Season one of the animated half-hour comedy Lil’ Bush will makes its Canadian broadcast debut on The Comedy Network on July 13 at 9:30 p.m., with season two launching on the network’s website on June 30. Lil’ …