World Screen

October 2006 By Anna Carugati 2006 has been a good year so far for Sony. The corporation posted its first profit in a long time, thanks to brisk sales of its Bravia LCD TV set, and to the box-office success …

October 2006 By Anna Carugati There is hardly a child between the ages of 6 and 14 in the U.S. who hasn’t heard of High School Musical (HSM). And as this Disney Channel original movie airs around the world, it …

October 2006 By Anna Carugati Last season, the series House on FOX quickly became the fastest-growing prime-time drama in the U.S. It features the irreverent and cantankerous Dr. Gregory House, an infectious-diseases specialist who, together with a team of doctors, …

October 2006 By Anna Carugati As head of the television division of Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Jonathan Littman and his group of producers and writers came up with the idea of taking feature-film production values and special effects and applying them …

October 2006 The New York Times reporter Bill Carter has been writing about the television industry for nearly 30 years. In his latest book, Desperate Networks, he provides an inside look at the Darwinian world of American network television, where …

As president of Warner Bros. Television, Peter Roth oversees the studio that has produced Friends, ER, The West Wing, Nip/Tuck, Cold Case, Without a Trace and many more. In these shows, as in all the shows Warner Bros. produces, Roth’s …

October 2006 By Mansha Daswani Last year, a little independent movie about race relations in Los Angeles became a sleeper box-office success and then went on to win the Academy Award for best picture. Crash was a labor of love …

October 2006 By Anna Carugati After gaining extensive experience managing channels for ESPN, BSkyB and Nickelodeon, Ross Hair joined Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) in 2001. Today, as the senior VP of international networks in Europe, Hair’s main responsibility is …

MIAMI, September 29: Animus Entertainment Group has concluded a number of sales on the gourmet health show Romancing your Palate and the environmental documentary One World, presented by Olivia Newton-John. The 6×30-minute Romancing your Palate, an Animus/Claxson co-production, has been …

SINGAPORE, September 29: The MediaCorp Studios’ format Project SuperStar, which was licensed into Malaysia last year following its successful Singaporean rollout, has been acquired by Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City Television (HTV). HTV will apply the talent format to its …