World Screen

LOS ANGELES, September 25: PorchLight Entertainment has named Brenda Bisner its VP of acquisitions for children’s programming. In her new role, Bisner will be responsible for the acquisition of children’s animated and live-action programming worldwide for the company’s international distribution …

LONDON, September 25: Mark Reynolds, currently with Granada International, has been named the director of factual at BBC Worldwide’s Indie Unit, and will take up the post later this year. Reynolds, who will report to Helen Jackson, BBC Worldwide’s director …

LONDON, September 25: NBC Universal International has realigned its digital operations, reorganizing them under two divisions: New Media Licensing and Digital Assets. New Media Licensing will be led by Beth Minehart, based in Los Angeles, who has been promoted to …

LOS ANGELES, September 25: Taffy Entertainment has reached a new worldwide licensing and consumer products deal with Italy’s Atlantyca Entertainment for the classic kids’ book series Geronimo Stilton. Under the new deal, Taffy will now oversee most of the worldwide …

LONDON, September 25: 2waytraffic UK has announced that ITV1 has recommissioned its game-show format Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? for another season. The new deal comprises at least 25×1-hour episodes and will see the quiz show continue to be …

LONDON, September 25: ITV has selected Limelight Networks, a content delivery network for digital media, to stream live and “catch-up” television programming on demand on its online portal ITV.com. In addition to offering a continuous stream of ITV's four broadcast …

NEW YORK, September 25: AETN International has announced plans to launch a new global on-demand broadband video player for The History Channel, The Biography Channel and Crime & Investigation Network outside of the U.S. The video broadband player launched in …

SINGAPORE, September 25: StarHub Digital Cable will launch two new channels in Singapore, STAR Gold, the first network in the region to offer Hindi movies, and TVB Classic Channel, featuring classic Hong Kong dramas, on October 4. The launch of …

LOS ANGELES, September 25: Playboy TV International and Claxson Interactive will launch their joint venture, LifeStyle TV, on a variety of platforms throughout the Latin American region on September 30. LifeStyle TV is the first Latin American channel to launch …

PARIS, September 25: TF1 has secured a deal with NBC Universal to launch the second season of the prime-time drama Heroes on its video-on-demand service TF1 Vision within 24 hours of the episode’s initial U.S. broadcast. Starting from today, each …