World Screen

HONG KONG, January 30: The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) will stage the seventh annual CASBAA Satellite Industry Forum in Singapore on June 18th. The forum traditionally acts as a curtain raiser for the CommunicAsia and BroadcastAsia …

STOCKHOLM, January 30: Talpa Scandinavia has produced a new format, Limbo, based on the number game of the same name from Svenska Spel, the Swedish National Lottery, for broadcast on TV4. Limbo will air on the Swedish commercial network TV4 …

LONDON, January 30: MercuryMedia International has inked a deal to distribute PBS content to airlines around the world through its in-flight distribution arm. PBS titles available for participating airlines include Texas Ranch House, Ken Burns’ Jazz, Jean Michel Cousteau’s Ocean …

DUBLIN, January 30: Bienvenue Cannes, a feature-length documentary that celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, is scheduled be launched at MIPDOC by Monster Distributes. The 84-minute documentary by Richard Schickel is produced by Lorac Productions in association …

LOS ANGELES, January 30: Former Classic Media executive Sandrine Pechels de Saint Sardos has been appointed as the VP of distribution for Bejuba! Entertainment. Reporting to Tatiana Kober, Bejuba!’s president, Pechels de Saint Sardos, based in New York, will assist …

UNTERFOEHRING, January 30: EM.Entertainment has expanded its distribution team with the appointments of Corinna Renkawitz and Nils Juhl to senior sales executive positions. The recent additions to EM.Entertainment’s distribution team are part of the company’s ongoing restructuring program. Renkawitz, as …

BERLIN, January 30: Alexey Lazarenko has been named managing director for Gala Media & Film Intl., the recently founded subsidiary of Germany’s A Company Consulting & Licensing that is focused on distributing titles to the Russian and CIS markets. Lazarenko …

LOS ANGELES, January 29: LATV has announced the appointment of Howard Bolter as president and COO, as the bilingual music and entertainment network gears up for a nationwide rollout. LATV recently announced an affiliation agreement with Post-Newsweek stations in Houston …

LONDON, January 29: Entertainment Rights has appointed a new team to manage its Postman Pat, Guess with Jess and Basil Brush properties, with Mary Wemyss as senior brand manager and Emma Duncan as brand manager. Wemyss previously oversaw just the …

COLOGNE, January 29: Croatian mobile marketing agency Mobitel has acquired the local distribution rights for ohm:tv’s complete mobile content catalogue. Mobitel now has access to ohm:tv’s popular animation characters such as Peter and Jaydee and other shows like Toy Matters …