World Screen

LONDON, July 23: BKN has announced the fall DVD release schedules for a range of its kids programming in the U.K. and North America, and has appointed Adrian Ball as sales director to support the launches. Ball will be based …

PARIS, July 23: Taffy Entertainment has sold eight children’s titles to key broadcasters and cable channels throughout Scandinavia, including a package of five series to free-TV channel NRK in Norway. NRK has acquired Dive Olly Dive!, SamSam, ToddWorld, Insectoscope and …

NEW YORK, July 23: 4Kids Entertainment has secured the television broadcast and merchandising rights from Nelvana Enterprises for the 2-D animated action-adventure series Di-Gata Defenders. The series will premiere on July 28 on the Saturday morning programming block 4Kids TV …

LONDON/PARIS, July 23: Nearly six months since its launch, the on-demand Japanese animation channel GONG is now available to 20 million individuals via the Internet or mobile in 36 countries across Europe and North America. On the peer-to-peer-based Internet TV …

NEW YORK, July 23: A&E Television Networks (AETN) has reached a deal to launch two made-for-mobile channels, A&E Mobile and The History Channel Mobile, in the U.S. on mobile content provider MobiTV. Available on the mobile channels will be acclaimed …

SINGAPORE, July 23: StarHub has partnered with Hong Kong’s Goal TV and Ten Sports in Dubai for the launch of Football Channel, a new sports channel dedicated to 24-hour Barclays Premier League programming. The new channel will be available to …

LONDON, July 23: Channel 4 is working with Emap to create a leading music TV provider, with the British broadcaster acquiring 50 percent of Emap’s music TV business, Box Television, for £28 million. The joint venture will operate and expand …

HOLLYWOOD, July 23: The Emmy-Award winning FOX series 24 has announced that it will make significant environmentally-friendly changes to its production practices during the seventh season in an effort to educate and inspire its viewers to take climate change and …

LONDON, July 23: A new report from research firm Screen Digest shows that while the number of children’s television channels has proliferated throughout the world, broadcaster spending on children’s programming has remained virtually unchanged over the last five years, decreasing …

LOS ANGELES, July 23: FOX has renewed its successful reality shows So You Think You Can Dance and Hell’s Kitchen and has ordered 13 additional episodes of the new summer series Don’t Forget the Lyrics. So You Think You Can …