World Screen

LONDON, October 13: Trouble, the Flextech-owned youth entertainment channel, has announced that it will build upon its user-generated-content network Homegrown by launching its own television show this November. The series’ content will be a fully user-generated, based entirely on material …

BARCELONA, October 13: Southern Star Entertainment and Neptuno Films Production in association with Flamma Films have started production on the 52 x 12-minute children’s animation series Sea Princesses. Based on the original book series Princesas do Mar created by Brazilian …

TORONTO, October 13: Global Television has announced that it is adding Survivor: Cook Islands, currently Canada’s top-rated reality show, to the content available online through its website. The program joins Deal or No Deal as the latest U.S. primetime series …

LUXEMBOURG, October 13: German commercial broadcaster RTL II and format sales and distribution company ohm:tv have signed an agreement to distribute RTL II’s entire program catalogue to Spain. The announcement was made by Juliane Rauno, RTL II’s head of sales …

CANBERRA, October 13: Australia’s senate has passed a controversial bill that would ease restrictions on cross-media ownership and on foreign ownership of Australian media companies. The legislation is intended to spur development of digital services and the growth of new …

WARSAW/BURBANK, October 13: Disney Channel has signed a multi-year deal with CYFRA+ and Cyfrowy Polsat to bring Disney Channel for the first time to 1.3 million subscribers across Poland starting on December 2, 2006. Programs that will be available include: …

PHILADELPHIA, October 13: Ted Harbert, president and CEO of E! Networks, has been promoted to the new position of president and CEO of Comcast Entertainment Group, with oversight of the company’s West Coast properties, including E! Entertainment Television, Style Network …

CANNES, October 13: The winners of MIPCOM’s Mobile TV Screening & Awards 2006, chosen by an international grand jury from a total of 23 nominated projects, received their trophies in a packed auditorium at the 22nd edition of MIPCOM. Sponsored …

World Screen Weekly, October 12, 2006 Head of Factual Granada International With nearly 20 years of experience in factual programming, Mark Reynolds, the head of factual at Granada International, has a good sense of what kind of documentaries, docudramas and …

World Screen Weekly, October 12, 2006 COUNTRY: U.S. YEAR IT LAUNCHED: Founded in 1995 under the name Fox Family Worldwide, the channel was acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 2001 and was rebranded as ABC Family. OWNERSHIP: ABC Family …