World Screen

LOS ANGELES, March 12: Lee Phillip Bell, the co-creator of CBS dramas such as The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful with her late husband William J. Bell, will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the …

HAMBURG/BURBANK, March 12: A multiyear VOD agreement between HanseNet Telekommunikation and Warner Bros. International Television Distribution will bring more than 100 features to the Alice homeTV digital service in Germany, including the Academy Award-winning The Departed. Beginning immediately, the VOD …

NEW YORK, March 12: MTV has experienced record traffic and video streams from its website mtv.com since the beginning of the year, and recorded 1 million streams from its MTV Mobile service in December and January. MTV.com delivered a record …

NEW YORK, March 12: The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences today announced the 11 nominees for this year’s International Interactive Emmy Awards, where BSkyB will receive the Pioneer Prize. Actor Roger Bart is returning to host the event, …

BEVERLY HILLS, March 12: The Tornante Company, the venture set up by ex-Disney chief Michael Eisner, has formed Vuguru, a studio that will produce and distribute original content for the Internet and other digital platforms, beginning with a serialized mystery …

January 2007 In 1993, Ricardo B. Salinas, one of Mexico’s most successful entrepreneurs, bought two national licenses and some run-down broadcasting equipment from the Mexican government. What resulted were Azteca 13 and Azteca 7, two networks that turned the Mexican …

LOS ANGELES, March 9: PorchLight Entertainment has appointed J. D. Beaufils to the post of VP of international sales, where he will oversee key European and Asian markets. In his new role, working with Adam Wright, the senior VP of …

LONDON, March 9: Nickelodeon U.K.’s David Lynn has been appointed as the executive VP and managing director of MTV Networks U.K. & Ireland, reporting to Bob Bakish, the president of MTV Networks International (MTVNI). In his new role, Lynn will …

BURBANK/PARIS, March 9: Caroline Lang has been promoted to the post of VP and managing director for France at Warner Bros. International Television Distribution (WBITD). Lang is a 16-year Warner Bros. Entertainment and Time Warner veteran. In her new position, …

TORONTO, March 9: Cuppa Coffee’s new 26×11-minute preschool series Bruno and the Banana Bunch will launch on Monday, April 2, on CBC in Canada. Bruno and the Banana Bunch follows the company’s successful interstitial series Bruno, which is currently airing …