World Screen

CHARLOTTE, September 20: Danger Rangers, a safety-themed series for school-age children, will launch on public television stations across the U.S. in October. The first 13 episodes of this comedy-adventure animated series produced by Educational Adventures will debut on public television …

LONDON, September 20: BBC Worldwide has appointed Matt Forde as director of investment of the content and production division. Forde, formerly head of commercial development at Independents, part of BBC Worldwide’s Indie Unit, will manage the relationship between BBC Worldwide …

LOS ANGELES, September 20: Farrell Meisel is reinstating his consultancy firm, FMI Media Group. From 1997 to 2001, as principal in the FMI Media Group, Meisel represented clients in various international markets focusing on general management, strategic planning, advertising sales, …

MEXICO CITY, September 19: Grupo Televisa has announced that it will not be making another bid for Univision Communications, the Spanish-language broadcaster in the U.S. Over the last week there have been reports in the media that Televisa was considering …

BURBANK, September 19: Warner Music Group (WMG) and the online video-sharing website YouTube have signed a deal that allows WMG’s catalogue to be distributed online. According to the agreement, YouTube has the right to show WMG’s library of music videos, …

SILVER SPRING, September 19: Discovery Communications announced it is expanding its collection of content on Google Earth, adding over 150 video segments for destinations around the globe. This expansion follows the April 2006 announcement of Discovery being the first provider …

MEXICO CITY, September 19: Twentieth Television has licensed the format of La Heredera (The Heiress), one of TV Azteca’s most successful telenovelas, and will adapt it in English for MyNetworkTV in the U.S. TV Azteca’s La Heredera tells the story …

LONDON/AMSTERDAM, September 19: chellomedia’s pay-TV service in the Netherlands, Film1, has signed multi-year agreements with Buena Vista International Television (BVITV). In the first of two deals, Film1 acquired the rights to movies from Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures and Miramax …

LONDON, September 19: Granada International has picked up the distribution rights to Company Pictures’ new adaptation of Mansfield Park. This new version of Jane Austen’s classic tale of love, betrayal and the agonies of the Regency class system, adapted by …

LONDON, September 19: Zonemedia’s Zone Reality channel will be launching its first original series Psychic Private Eyes. Psychic Private Eyes will consist of 15 one-hour episodes and is a co-production between Zonemedia and the British company IPM. The series is …