World Screen

MAINZ: ZDF Enterprises (ZDFE) has a range of new series to offer across its four genre divisions, with the slate of ZDFE.junior led by the animated H2O Mermaid Adventures. The new 52×24-minute H2O Mermaid Adventures takes the original concept of …

TORONTO: The Canada Media Fund (CMF) and Brazil's SP Cine have struck an agreement to provide financing for the development of co-productions. The pact is designed to foster the development of projects for TV, games and other digital media. The …

NEW YORK: This year at MIPCOM, CBS executives David Stapf and Armando Nuñez will hold a joint keynote on Tuesday, October 14, that will be moderated by World Screen’s group editorial director, Anna Carugati. The session will be held in …

After more than a decade in the international TV industry, Tricon Films & Television has emerged as one of the leading independent production and distribution outfits in North America. The company has a diversified catalogue, spanning prime-time comedy and drama …

LONDON: ITV has signed an investment deal with the digital entertainment company Believe Entertainment Group, which is behind such short-form content as The LeBrons for Xbox. ITV becomes a strategic partner for Believe, and will contribute its own U.S. production …

PREMIUM: Bruce Tuchman, the president of AMC and Sundance Channel Global, provides World Screen with his view on the opportunities still to be found in pay-TV markets worldwide. WS: Tell me about the thinking behind the strategy to make AMC …

This interview originally appeared in the MIPCOM 2014 issue of World Screen. A favorite among binge-viewers, Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black stars Taylor Schilling as its main jailbird, Piper Chapman. In it, she plays a Waspy blonde who is forced …

TEL AVIV: Dori Media Group has teamed up with Israeli director Givon Snir to launch a new multichannel network called MeMeMe. The network will be based in Tel Aviv, where Snir and Anat Szekely, currently Dori Media’s head of digital, …

LONDON: Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) has officially completed its £450 million ($726 million) acquisition of Channel 5 from Northern & Shell, also announcing its first joint commissions between C5 and its U.K. pay-TV channels. The deal was announced in …

NEW YORK: The digital edition for World Screen's September/Pre-MIPCOM issue is now available, featuring a report that spotlights how the international business of drama is booming amid a new era of creative collaboration across borders. View the digital edition here. …