World Screen

April 2007 By Anna Carugati Time Warner is the biggest media company in the world. It is the home of such renowned worldwide brands as Warner Bros., CNN, HBO, Cartoon Network, AOL and many more. Jeffrey Bewkes, Time Warner’s president …

TV Kids Weekly, April 24, 2007 ORIGIN: The Zula Patrol is based on an original idea by Dr. Deborah Manchester. CREATOR: The series was created by Dr. Deborah Manchester. TV SHOW: The Zula Patrol is a CGI animated series, consisting …

TV Kids Weekly, April 17, 2007 ORIGIN: Code Lyoko is based on an original idea and was developed and produced by MoonScoop Productions in France. CREATORS: MoonScoop Productions created the show, along with Tania Palumbo, Thomas Romain and Carlo de …

World Screen Weekly, April 26, 2007 COUNTRY: U.S., U.K. and Ireland LAUNCH DATE: August 1, 2005 in the U.S. DISTRIBUTION: Current is distributed in approximately 50 million homes worldwide, with about 38 million homes in the U.S. and 12 million …

World Screen Weekly, April 26, 2007 Managing Director Outright Distribution Chris Bonney has a fair amount of experience in re-branding and relaunching companies to take advantage of new opportunities. While COO of the format distributor ECM in 2003, Bonney led …

GREENSBORO, April 27: Cookie Jar Education, a division of The Cookie Jar Group that produces educational material and teaching aids, has promoted Roger Posacki to COO, and has also named Tom Purcell as senior VP of finance. Posacki took up …

PARIS, April 27: Frank Melloul has been appointed as the director of strategy and international development at France 24, effective May 2, reporting to CEO Alain de Pouzilhac. In his new role, Melloul will be responsible for worldwide research, target …

LOS ANGELES, April 27: TNT and TBS original programming chief Michael Wright has been upped to senior VP of the newly reorganized and renamed Content Creation Group, reporting to Steve Koonin, the president of Turner Entertainment Networks. Wright had previously …

SAN FRANCISCO, April 27: Michael Hoff Productions (MHP) has announced a production slate that includes a range of programs for National Geographic Channel (NGC), Fine Living TV Network and Voom’s Equator HD. MHP inked a deal with NGC that includes …

PALO ALTO, April 27: Azureus, which aggregates and distributes long-form, high-quality video over the Internet, has reached a deal to offer up content from UNICEF on its Vuze platform worldwide. The deal, UNICEF’s first with a peer-to-peer platform, will see …