World Screen

BURBANK/SYDNEY, July 12: Greg Robertson, a 21-year Warner Bros. Entertainment veteran, has been promoted to senior VP and managing director of Warner Bros. International Television Distribution (WBITD) for the Asia Pacific, based in Sydney. Robertson will supervise all WBITD’s program …

LONDON, July 12: Matthew Littleford, previously with ITV Digital Channels, has been named the controller of UKTV. In his new role, Littleford will assume full editorial and brand leadership for the company’s portfolio of 10 TV channels and its online …

ENGLEWOOD, July 12: Liberty Global has appointed former AOL executive Balan Nair as its senior VP and chief technology officer. In this new role, Nair will be responsible for overseeing the company’s global network and technology operations, which span four …

BUFFALO, July 12: The British comedy Mind Your Language, broadcast on ITV in the late ‘70s, has been picked up for a prime-time slot on Bridges TV in the U.S. The comedy focused on a group of new immigrants to …

BARCELONA, July 12: Neptuno Films has taken on selected distribution rights to the 3-D animated preschool series Katakune, a co-production between Singapore’s Character Farm and China’s Wogee Toons. The 52×11-minute episodes or 260×2-minute episodes are scheduled to be completed by …

LOS ANGELES, July 12: The National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE) will be holding its fifth annual TV Producers’ Boot Camp at the House of Blues and Comedy Store in Los Angeles on July 26 and July 27. Designed …

LONDON, July 12: Endemol International has secured a range of new international broadcast deals for its U.K.-produced factual programming, including the sale of the one-hour documentary special Extraordinary Ten Year Olds into eight additional territories. Extraordinary Ten Year Olds, produced …

LONDON/NEW YORK/SANTA MONICA, July 12: In an exclusive three-year agreement, Nickelodeon and Viacom Consumer Products (NVCP) has tapped EMME Group to publish PC games based on hit Nickelodeon preschool properties such as Dora the Explorer, Go Diego Go! and The …

LONDON, July 12: Granada International has optioned the culinary reality format Hell’s Kitchen to Keshet for free-TV broadcast on Channel 2 in Israel. The finished version of Hell’s Kitchen USA has sold to more than 100 territories worldwide, including pan …

NEW YORK, July 12: MTV in the U.S. is premiering a new horror-meets-reality television show, created by Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg of Katalyst Films, on Tuesday, July 17, at 10 p.m. In Room 401, Kutcher and Goldberg will blend …