World Screen

NEW YORK: Amanda Hill, previously the chief brands officer at BBC Worldwide, has been hired by A+E Networks to serve as chief creative officer for international. Hill will be reporting to Sean Cohan, the company's executive VP of international. In …

SINGAPORE: The worldwide pay-TV market grew at a steady rate of 4 percent last year, reaching 923.5 million subscribers, according to ABI Research, though weak currency exchange rates resulted in a slower increase of revenue for the segment. Worldwide, the …

LOS ANGELES: MarVista Entertainment has sold several of its thrillers and disaster movies to broadcasters around the world. The action disaster film 10.0 Earthquake has been picked up by TF1 in France; Mediaset in Spain; LNK in Lithuania; Channel 5 …

NEW YORK: AMC Networks International has made a raft of acquisitions for first-run original series and miniseries, in a bid to fuel the growth across Sundance Channel Global's linear and authenticated VOD and TV Everywhere services. The programming includes the …

MEXICO CITY: Televisa Internacional’s kids’ talent show format Little Giants (Pequeños Gigantes) has been picked up in Poland, airing on that country’s TVN channel. The competition show sees youngsters between 4 and 12 years old taking the stage to show …

LONDON: Pay-TV revenues in North America are said to have peaked in 2013 at $102.86 billion, with the latest forecast from Digital TV Research showing declines on the horizon. The Digital TV North America report projects pay-TV revenues (subscription and …

PARIS: The ways in which Millennials and their content consumption habits have dramatically transformed the media business will take center stage at MIPTV next month. Attendance is expected to be up at more than 11,000 participants, according to Laurine Garaude, …

SINGAPORE: Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) has named June Yeoh as its new senior director of international program sales in Asia. As part of her tasks, Yeoh will supervise all the company’s brands in Asia, among them children’s network Nickelodeon …

PALISADES PARK: Alfred Haber Distribution has sold The Victoria's Secret Swim Special, a brand-new CBS television event, to a number of broadcasters around the world. The Victoria's Secret Swim Special is headed to Global TV in Canada, Canal Sony in …

NEW YORK: Joel Denton, the managing director of international content sales and partnerships at A+E Networks, shares with World Screen some of the highlights coming down the company's pipeline, including historical event series, biographical TV movies and female-skewing shows.   …