World Screen

SINGAPORE, November 29: In its bid to expand the reach of Singaporean produced content around the world, the Media Development Authority today announced alliances with Canada’s National Film Board (NFB), Italy’s Finanziaria Laziale de Sviluppo (FILAS) and Thailand’s Software Promotion …

HIALEAH, November 29: Telemundo Communications Group has taken full ownership of the Miami-based Telemundo-RTI Productions and has acquired its distribution partner, Tepuy International. Telemundo-RTI will now be renamed Telemundo Studios Miami, while Tepuy will become Telemundo Internacional, serving as the …

LONDON, November 29: Michael Grade, who resigned yesterday as chairman of the BBC to become the executive chairman of the U.K.’s leading commercial broadcaster ITV, was greeted by ITV staff with a standing ovation. Although Grade officially starts at ITV …

SINGAPORE, November 29: The Asia Television Forum and Asia Film Market & Conference opened in Singapore today with organizers hailing a 25-percent increase in attendance, with a record number of participants hailing from 49 countries, including 80 distributors attending for …

LONDON, November 28: FremantleMedia Licensing Worldwide (FLW), the licensing division of FremantleMedia, is expanding its U.S. ancillary rights operations with two new appointments. Shannon Sweeny has been named VP of integrated marketing for North America and joins the company from …

LONDON, November 28: Mobile video communications provider Mobix has launched AshesMania, a cricketing entertainment site for customers of the Orange U.K. network. AshesMania takes an irreverent look at some of cricket’s finest moments, greatest sledges, terminology, as well as providing …

BRUSSELS, November 28: The popular Belgian series Steracteur Sterartiest!, based on Granada International’s Soapstar Superstar format, will go into a second season on Een, VTR’s first channel. The finale of the program’s first season, which aired on November 24, achieved …

MUMBAI, November 28: Indian children chose Disney Channel as the Best Children’s Channel; their vote was announced at the Hero Honda Indian Television Academy Awards (HHITA). At a gala event in Mumbai, Disney Channel was named the winner of the …

LONDON, November 28: Cineflix International, the London-based international television distribution arm of Canadian production company Cineflix, announced that it has licensed several of its productions to channels in China and Thailand as it heads to the Asia Television Forum in …

AMSTERDAM, November 28: Factual producer and distributor Off the Fence, which is exhibiting at the Asia TV Forum this week, has announced a raft of agreements with broadcasters in the region. The NHNZ series Man Made Marvels and Raising Baby …