World Screen

HONG KONG, November 15: Disney Channel's highly popular TV movie High School Musical has repeated its success in Asian markets, including the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore. Since its June release the film has drawn tweens across the Asia-Pacific region delivering …

SINGAPORE, November 15: The Amazing Race Asia, which premiered on AXN on November 9, was the highest-rated show on the country’s international cable channels, dominating its timeslot with 54 percent of the viewers. "It has been a nine-month-long gestation process," …

LOS ANGELES, November 15: ABC has given a pilot order to The Thick of It, a half-hour political comedy to be co-produced by BBC Worldwide and Sony Pictures Television along with Arrested Development creator Mitchell Hurwitz, according to reports. The …

NEW YORK, November 15: Top U.S. food manufacturers and advertisers have proposed guidelines to control the promotion of junk food to children through a voluntary tightening of standards and new requirements on advertising to kids on television and in video …

DOHA, November 15: Al Jazeera English, the English-language news and current affairs channel based in the Middle East, launched today in more than 80 million cable and satellite homes across the globe. The channel, with anchor teams in broadcast centers …

LONDON, November 15: Channel 4 plans to launch its video-on-demand media player service called 4oD on December 6. 4oD will allow users to view Channel 4 programs online for up to 30 days after their first transmission. According to Channel …

LOS ANGELES, November 14: Kat Garcia has joined Davis Public Relations (DPR) as VP of publicity and will help manage the company’s trade and consumer clientele by developing, executing and pitching publicity campaigns to domestic and international media outlets. Garcia …

LONDON, November 14: Mercury Media and Aggregator Limited have appointed Ben Ross as head of acquisitions for their new co-venture broadband documentary channel joiningthedots.tv. joiningthedots.tv will offer a wide range of factual programming, including current affairs, history, observational, polemic, arts, …

NEW YORK, November 14: The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has announced the departure of Georges Leclere, senior VP for international outreach. Leclere will leave his position at the end of the year and will be available as …

BUCHAREST, November 14: Romania’s Acasa TV, a cable channel that reaches 60 percent of the country’s households, has renewed its agreement with Globo TV International in a deal that covers 350 hours of TV Globo productions to be broadcast in …