World Screen

NEW YORK, June 27: IMG has appointed Olivier Gers, previously with FremantleMedia Licensing Worldwide, to the newly created positions of senior VP, global head of new media and co-head of the new business unit IMG Entertainment. Based at the company’s …

SINGAPORE, June 27: Discovery Networks Asia has named James Gibbons as general manager of Discovery and Animal Planet Japan, effective July 16. Gibbons will be based in Tokyo and will report directly to the board of directors for Discovery and …

LONDON, June 27: FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) has reached a deal with Media 10 to launch Property Ladder Live, a three-day consumer event based on Property Ladder, the popular Channel 4 series from talkbackTHAMES. FME’s deal with Media 10 grants them …

BARCELONA, June 27: Icon Animation has signed a raft of international television, home video and publishing deals for the kids’ healthy-eating series Vitaminix and a range of animated series from its distribution library. In Greece, 06TV has secured the television …

CHICAGO, June 27: Towers Productions will produce a one-hour documentary special for the National Geographic Channel entitled Road to War, about the origins of the war in Iraq, for broadcast in the U.S. in late August. Towers will also handle …

SAN FRANCISCO, June 27: VIZ Media has reached a deal to make its hit anime series Death Note available for download-to-own on TotalVid.com, beginning tomorrow. At launch, 16 subtitled episodes of Death Note will initially be available, with one new …

HO CHI MINH CITY/SINGAPORE, June 27: Disney Channel has expanded its presence in Vietnam and is now available in 75 percent of all pay-TV households, with carriage on the pay-TV systems Vietnam Cable Television Service Technique Center (VCTV) and Saigon …

NEW YORK, June 27: MTV in the U.S., and sister offerings in 36 countries have greenlit a second season of the social networking series Meet or Delete, targeted at college students and produced in collaboration with the information technology company …

SANTA MONICA/VANCOUVER, June 27: Lionsgate has signed a television development deal with Roy Lee and Doug Davison's Vertigo Entertainment, which has become known for producing U.S. remakes of Asian films, resulting in The Ring, The Grudge and The Departed, among …

NEW YORK, June 27: Canadian broadcaster CTV has bagged the exclusive broadcast and digital rights (including broadband, video-on-demand and mobile) to the Comedy Central program slate, which it can schedule on any of its platforms, including the specialty channel The …