World Screen

TORONTO/LOS ANGELES, April 5: Blueprint Entertainment and marblemedia have started production on their flash-animated series The Dating Guy. The 13 half-hour episodes tackle relationships from the perspective of people in their twenties. Created by marblemedia partners Mark Bishop and Matt …

LONDON, April 5: Cineflix has ordered 52 hours of new programming and returning series from its factual and factual entertainment divisions, including a new season of Paradise Lost. Scheduled to debut on Five in the U.K. and Discovery HD in …

BUENOS AIRES, April 5: Dori Media Group has inked a three-year deal with Illusion Studios to begin developing fiction programs that incorporate animated technology, kicking off with two family-oriented telenovelas: Violeta and The Wizardess of Oz. At MIPTV, Dori Media …

HILVERSUM, April 5: Endemol International has scored a number of international deals in the lead up to MIPTV, including a deal with Viasat to deliver Supersize vs. Superskinny. Viasat acquired the 8-hour-long factual entertainment series in a multi-territory deal covering …

STRASBOURG, April 5: On April 9, the European Commission (DG Communication) and the European Audiovisual Observatory will launch at MIPTV the public version of MAVISE, a free database set up to provide basic data on all the television channels accessible …

TORONTO, April 4: Licensing and distribution veteran Irv Holender has taken the helm of The Fremantle Corporation as director and principal. Holender’s career includes high-level stints in licensing for Twentieth Century Fox, Paramount and WB’s Looney Tunes, in addition to …

LOS ANGELES, April 4: The National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE) has named Denise O’Connor as the VP of business development. O’Connor will be responsible for managing sales and sponsorship activities for all year-round events, including NATPE’s annual Conference …

LONDON, April 4: Gerry Donohoe will step down as managing director of Granada Ventures at the end of this month. Donohoe will leave the company, part of ITV Worldwide, at the end of April after supporting the merger of Granada …

LOS ANGELES, April 4: Promax/BDA has unveiled a diverse lineup of speakers, including James Lipton, the creator, writer, executive producer and host of Bravo’s Inside the Actors Studio, for its 53rd annual North American Promax/BDA Conference, slated to take place …

EL SEGUNDO, April 4: DIRECTV has added TV Nanny, Russia’s first children’s channel, to its WorldDirect programming platform. TV Nanny is a 24/7 network that provides entertaining and educational programming for kids, while teaching the values and traditions of the …