World Screen

LONDON, March 2: Bollywood giant Eros International has signed an agreement for a range of its feature films to air on the Indian entertainment channel Sony Entertainment Television, including the recent hit Salaam-E-Ishq. The package deal also covers Lage Raho …

NEW DELHI, March 2: Sony Pictures Television International’s AXN brand is back on the air in India, with the government lifting its ban on the action-adventure network for broadcasting allegedly lewd content. The ban was imposed in late January, for …

BANGKOK, March 2: Beleaguered Thai broadcaster ITV is set to be run by the government-owned media company MCOT, which currently operates the Channel 9 station and the Thai News Agency. According to local press reports, Chulayuth Hirunyavasit, the permanent secretary …

LONDON, March 2: A slate of clips from the BBC’s entertainment and news content will be made available online via deals announced today with the Google-owned content sharing site YouTube. Financial terms were not disclosed for the non-exclusive partnerships inked …

NEW YORK, March 2: Viacom saw traffic to its MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon websites increase over the past few weeks, since it ordered YouTube to remove about 100,000 of its clips after the two companies failed to reach a …

LOS ANGELES/LONDON, March 1: The Los Angeles-based independent distributor Liberation Entertainment has appointed James Belsham as director of international television sales, based in London, and has recruited Bill Peck as a consultant. Prior to joining Liberation Entertainment, Belsham formed gel-grow …

SAN JOSE, March 1: In a multiyear distribution deal, over 150 independent films from the Cinequest Film Institute will be made available on the content platform Jaman.com, including the Emmy Award-winning Amargosa, the multiple award-winning Awful Normal, and the political …

LONDON, March 1: Spellbound Entertainment has secured a series of new deals in Europe, Asia and North America for its award-winning preschool series The Koala Brothers. In the latest round of deals, Hungarian children’s channel Minimax has purchased the cable …

HONG KONG/LONDON, March 1: Granada International’s regional office in Hong Kong has secured sales of its programming to a number of broadcasters in Korea, including a substantial package of dramas and feature films for the free-TV broadcaster EBS. EBS has …

JOHANNESBURG/LONDON, March 1: Disney Channel will now transmit 24 hours a day on MultiChoice’s DStv platform across South and sub-Saharan Africa, after first launching with a 16 hours per day schedule. In a multiyear agreement with MultiChoice in September 2006, …