World Screen

LONDON, January 19: LIVINGtv in the U.K. has picked up the basic cable rights to the first season of Bravo’s hit culinary talent search Top Chef from NBC Universal International Television Distribution. Top Chef is scheduled to air on the …

Citadel Looks to Take ION Private WEST PALM BEACH, January 19: The private equity firm Citadel Investment Group has made a bid to acquire ION Media Networks, valuing the company at about $1.4 billion. The proposal issued to ION today …

World Screen Weekly, January 18, 2007 Neil Braun President of Distribution and Marketing Starz Media Born in New York City, Neil Braun is a New Yorker to the core. “Having a New York lifestyle increasingly pushed me toward working in …

World Screen Weekly, January 18, 2007 COUNTRY: U.S. LAUNCH DATE: December 1, 1994, as the Game Show Network. Rebranded as GSN, the Network for Games, on March 15, 2004 OWNERSHIP: Sony Pictures Entertainment (50 percent) and Liberty Media Corporation (50 …

BRISTOL, January 18: Aardman Animations’ new kids’ series Shaun the Sheep has notched up deals in 60 markets in Europe, Asia and Latin America since its MIPCOM 2006 launch. TF1 in France has acquired the franchise across all rights including …

LONDON, January 18: LIVINGtv has inked a deal with Bunim-Murray Productions for the rights to Oxygen’s The Bad Girls Club for launch in the second quarter of this year. The Bad Girls Club is Oxygen’s highest rated premiere ever. The …

NEW YORK, January 18: BBC Worldwide is looking to further boost its format business in Latin America, setting up a new production outfit in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The operation will seek to ramp up the local production of BBC and …

LONDON, January 18: Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) is producing a British version of the game show Pyramid for Challenge that will be hosted by Donny Osmond, who helmed the American version from 2002 to 2004. Challenge has commissioned SPTI …

NEW YORK, January 18: Sundance Channel will add clips of its content to YouTube this year, kicking off with programming produced from the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Throughout the year, Sundance will add clips from its original series, films and …

PARIS, January 18: TV France International is moving its annual Rendez-Vous from Saint-Tropez to Biarritz for the first time this year so that it can double its exhibition space. Rendez-Vous takes place September 3 to 7 at Le Bellevue Conference …