World Screen

CANNES, April 7: Warner Bros. International Television Distribution (WBITD) and HBO, both Time Warner subsidiaries, have inked a multi-year deal to be the initial suppliers of programming to France Telecom Orange’s new multiplatform pay-TV service. Under the terms of the …

LONDON, April 7: FremantleMedia today announced two new alliances in Asia, with Japan’s TV Man Union and Singapore’s Media Development Authority (MDA), and additions to its MIPTV lineup with two new reality productions. One of the first steps for the …

PARIS, April 7: Harry E. Sloan, the chairman and CEO of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, will deliver a keynote speech as part of the two-day entertainment summit set to open the first edition of AMAZIA, Reed MIDEM’s new content market for Asia. …

CANNES, April 7: On the first day of MIPTV in Cannes today, Disney-ABC International Television announced several deals, including the extension of an agreement with ProSiebenSat.1 Group and the production of Colombian versions of Grey’s Anatomy and Brothers & Sisters. …

CANNES, April 7: Phoenix Satellite Television’s Liu Changle and Law & Order creator Dick Wolf are to receive the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ Directorate Award and Founders Award, respectively, at the International Emmy Awards gala on November …

NEW YORK, April 7: News Corporation has acquired additional shares in German pay-TV giant Premiere, taking its stake in the company to 22.7 percent. In January, News Corp. shelled out 287 million euros for 14.58 percent of Premiere, upping it …

TV Kids Weekly, April 1, 2008 Managing Director Millimages U.K. John Reynolds left his native Ireland for the U.S. with the intention of landing a job in advertising. However, as luck would have it, he “fell into television” instead, in …

TV Kids Weekly, April 1, 2008 ORIGIN: Based on an original idea by Jonathan Finkelstein and David Hansen. DISTRIBUTOR: MarVista Entertainment CREATORS: Jonathan Finkelstein and David Hansen. Prank Patrol is produced by Apartment 11 Productions in association with YTV, with …

World Screen Weekly, April 3, 2008 Managing Director Zodiak International Following its acquisition of Bullseye Television in the U.K. last August, the leading Scandinavian production-and-distribution outfit Zodiak Television announced that its commercial arm, Zodiak Television World, would relocate from Copenhagen …

World Screen Weekly, April 3, 2008 Managing Director Sparks Network When Sparks Network was established, some five years ago, its founders, Fredrik af Malmborg and Nicola Söderlund, had a vision of building global brands in television by gathering the joint …