World Screen

LOS ANGELES: Hasbro Studios has named Global Agency as the exclusive international sales agent for format rights for Family Game Night and other game shows. Global Agency will also be representing the format rights for Game of Life, Boggle Showdown …

It has never been more challenging to be a television programmer. Budgets are under pressure. Content owners want to be adequately compensated for all the extra rights—online, on-demand, catch-up—that are needed in today’s TV Everywhere world. New online platforms and …

NEW YORK: Bruce Paisner, the president and CEO of the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, shares his thoughts on how broadcasters and advertisers must face the challenges of consumers' changing TV-viewing habits.  My four-year-old grandson, Wyatt, came to visit …

CANNES: Get ready for the market's official opening tomorrow by picking up copies of our MIPCOM editions at a number of hotels on the Croisette, and downloading or updating the World Screen app, delivering programming listings, news and a host …

CANNES: Endemol Worldwide Distribution's new MIPCOM lineup includes The Ark and Death Comes to Pemberley, period dramas featuring star-studded casts. The Ark, which tells the stories of World War I’s front-line medics, stars Oona Chaplin, Hermione Norris and Suranne Jones. …

CANNES: Feature films have been a sweet spot for Artist View Entertainment, and at this market, the company is offering two new action-based titles. April Rain involves an eclectic group of terrorists, while West End is about an undercover FBI …

CANNES: The union of air traffic controllers in the European Union has said it is postponing its strike that had been scheduled for the last day of MIPCOM. The industrial action on October 10 had threatened to derail the travel …

CANNES: DR's Piv Bernth, Starz's Carmi Zlotnik, Foxtel's Ross Crowley and Azteca's Pedro Lascurain will share their innovative programming strategies at the Acquisition Superpanel: What Do Buyers Want? session in the Grand Auditorium on Wednesday at  4:45 p.m., moderated by …

CANNES: The catalogue of Dori Media Group has diversified to include weekly and daily dramas, comedies, entertainment, reality, docu-reality and kids’ content. “Our catalogue consists of content that travels worldwide,” says Nadav Palti, the president and CEO of Dori Media …

CANNES: AFL Productions continues to expand its library by accumulating a unique collection of HD clips, bloopers and hidden-camera gags, a slate that is being complemented this MIPCOM by a new drama series. Yuri Volodarsky, the company’s owner and head …