World Screen

NEW YORK, October 17: New research from The Nielsen Company reveals that the number of U.S. households with digital video recorders has risen to 20.5 percent of its National People Meter sample, up from 16.2 percent in May 2007 and …

SAN MATEO, October 16: Akimbo Systems, which specializes in VOD delivery over the Internet, has tapped the former president of On Demand Media Group, Neil Goldberg, as its COO and Peter Chantel, previously with Sony Signatures Network, as its CFO. …

MONTREAL, October 16: Telefilm Canada, a federal agency dedicated to the development and promotion of the Canadian audiovisual industry, has appointed Michel Roy as its board chair, replacing Felix “Fil” Fraser, who has served as interim chair since February. Roy …

LONDON, October 16: CBBC Production has commissioned Serious Ocean, a sixth edition of ALL3MEDIA International’s multi-award winning children’s factual strand Serious. This new show builds on the success of the previous seasons, Serious Jungle, Serious Desert, Serious Arctic, Serious Amazon …

LONDON, October 16: Granada International has secured a raft of sales in Latin America, including a package of more than 100 hours to Hallmark for its Latin American feed. Ideal, a new channel that launched in Brazil on October 1, …

SINGAPORE, October 16: ESPN STAR Sports (ESS) will broadcast the weekly hour-long program Championship Gaming Series (CGS), focusing on professional gaming, every Monday evening across Asia. The program premiered yesterday at 6 p.m. Hong Kong time. CGS features highlights from …

LOS ANGELES, October 16: Playboy TV has launched Playboy Prime, a new daily prime-time format featuring short-form programming that is designed to appeal to the “YouTube Generation,” its key 18- to 34-year-old male viewer demographic. Airing every night from 8 …

CANNES, October 16: PorchLight Entertainment secured a number of new international sales for its action thriller movie Hell’s Rain at MIPCOM last week. Hell’s Rain, which uses a natural disaster as its underlying theme, has been sold to TF1 in …

TORONTO, October 16: Sullivan Entertainment has begun production on Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning, a new three-hour prequel to the original 1985 mini-series, slated to premiere on CTV in 2008. Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning reveals …

OVERLAND PARK, October 16: The U.S. wireless carrier Sprint has launched SEE (Sprint Exclusive Entertainment), a new mobile TV network delivering original on-demand programming about music, sports and entertainment news to Sprint video-enabled phones. SEE will be available at no …