World Screen

LONDON, January 8: Power has tapped Andy Schreiber, a former executive at Playboy Entertainment Group, to head up its newly launched home-entertainment division as senior VP. Schreiber will relocate from Los Angeles to Power’s central London headquarters to take up …

MUNICH, January 8: SevenOne International has secured new format deals with SBS 6 in the Netherlands and TV2 in Hungary for The Successor—The Next Uri Geller, which premiered in Germany today on ProSieben. The talent competition series, based on an …

HONG KONG, January 8: Granada International has inked a deal with China’s Hunan TV for its hit entertainment property Saturday Night Takeaway, marking the first time that the format will be produced for an Asian audience. Hunan TV is making …

NEW YORK, January 8: Tabatha Coffey, a former contestant on Bravo’s reality-competition series Shear Genius, will star in a new reality pilot, tentatively titled Tabatha’s Salon Takeover, for the NBC Universal-owned cable network. The series will see the Australian native …

LONDON, January 8: Virgin Media Television’s recently launched entertainment channel Virgin 1 has secured the exclusive premiere rights in the U.K. for City in Fear from NBC Universal International Television Distribution, for debut this month. The dramatic investigative series looks …

LAS VEGAS, January 8: Later this year, Samsung Electronics, MobiTV, Nokia Siemens Networks, Rohde & Schwarz and SES AMERICOM’s IP-PRIME will demonstrate a national distribution platform for mobile TV services in the U.S. that utilizes local broadcast TV spectrum. The …

PRAGUE, January 8: The Czech Republic’s TV Prima has tapped Marek Singer as its new CEO, succeeding Aleksandras Cesnavicius, who has been in charge since Modern Times Group acquired 50 percent of the broadcaster’s parent company, GES Media Holding, in …

LOS ANGELES, January 8: The serial-killer drama Dexter, which recently wrapped its second season on premium cable network Showtime, is being repurposed by CBS to help fill its schedule in the midst of the writers strike, with the first season …

LAS VEGAS, January 8: Panasonic and Comcast Corporation have debuted a portable DVR and DVD player powered by tru2way technology that will let Comcast customers record programming at home and take it with them wherever they go. Named AnyPlay P-DVR …

NEW YORK/LAS VEGAS, January 8: The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop has released a new study at the International Consumer Electronics Show’s first Sandbox Summit examining digital media’s educational potential. The 50-page study, the first to analyze the …