World Screen

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 …

BUENOS AIRES, October 18: Fox Latin American Channels is working with Unilever’s male fragrance brand Axe on City Hunters, a nine-episode animated series that launches on Fox in the region on October 23 at 11 p.m. Produced by Fox Factory …

TOKYO/NEW YORK, October 18: Nickelodeon and Viacom Consumer Products has entered into a partnership with Sanrio, which owns the rights to the Hello Kitty brand, to develop the Blue's Clues property in Japan. The co-licensing deal will see the two …

TORONTO, October 18: The 21st Annual Gemini Awards were presented yesterday in the lifestyle, children’s and youth categories in the second part of a three-day awards-fest that will see the drama, variety and comedy winners presented at a ceremony in …

LOS ANGELES, October 18: Image Entertainment has won its proxy battle with Lionsgate, with all seven of the home entertainment outfit’s board members reelected, defeating the independent studio’s nominees. Lionsgate holds a 19-percent stake in Image and has been trying …

SEATTLE, October 18: A number of titles from Showtime, including the critically acclaimed drama The L Word and the pilot for the new show Dexter, have joined the lineup on the digital content download service Amazon Unbox, which launched in …

NEW YORK, October 18: Time Warner Cable is planning an initial public offering, wire reports indicate, applying to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker TWC. According to the AP, the platform, the second-largest cable …

MUNICH, October 18: ProSiebenSat.1 Group has acquired a 30-percent stake in Lokalisten media, which operates Lokalisten.de, a leading social-networking site in Germany that has about 325,000 members. The deal follows the German broadcasting group’s September acquisition of the user-generated-content site …

TORONTO, October 17: Mary Powers, the VP of communications at CHUM Ltd., has been appointed as the senior VP of corporate communications at Bell Globemedia (BGM), it was announced today. BGM is currently awaiting regulatory approval for its acquisition of …