World Screen

NEW YORK, October 19: About 5 percent of NBC Universal’s workforce—some 700 people—will be let go by the end of 2008 as part of a company-wide restructure announced today called NBCU 2.0. NBC Universal said today that the move is …

NEW YORK, October 18: 4Kids Entertainment has upped Julie Dill to VP of marketing and licensing and Alyssa J. Tucker to SVP of marketing and licensing sales, as the company begins the multiplatform rollouts of its new brands Viva Piñata …

LOS ANGELES, October 18: Genius Products will release the DVD of BKN’s new animated feature Kong: Return to the Jungle in the U.S. on November 21. The 3-D CGI feature was produced by Rick Ungar and was inspired by the …

MADRID, October 18: TVE (Television Española) secured a range of deals at MIPCOM last week, including licensing the serial Ana and the Seven Kids to Kanal D in Romania and the documentaries Nearby Paradises and Enchanted Planet to ERT in …

LOS ANGELES, October 18: The video-on-demand service Eurocinema has signed an exclusive deal with independent film distributor First Run Features, with titles like La Petite Lili and Kira's Reason launching on the platform in December. In making the announcement, Larry …

LONDON/NEW YORK, October 18: Sportshows Television, the TV production arm of IPTV company Narrowstep, and The Interpublic Group’s Octagon CSI have won the contract to produce and distribute the 2007 International Sailing Federation's ISAF Sailing World Championships. The two companies …

LONDON, October 18: All3Media International has taken on the finished program and format distribution rights to Tearaway Teen To Beauty Queen, a North One production. The show takes a former beauty queen and asks her to transform nine difficult teen …

PARIS/MONACO, October 18: Eurodata TV Worldwide and Sportel are teaming for the inaugural Americas Sport TV Audience Awards, which will be presented at SportelAmerica in Miami in March. This new prize will go to the highest-rated sporting event in the …

SYDNEY, October 18: Discovery Networks Latin America/Iberia has picked up the rights to the American version of the preschool series Hi-5 from Southern Star International for its Discovery Kids feed. Angela Recio Sondon, the VP of programming for DNLA/I, said …

ATLANTA, October 18: Turner Classic Movies (TCM) has acquired the rights to six films from the 1930s, produced by the classic film studio RKO, that were previously considered lost. This selection of rare motion pictures includes works directed by William …