World Screen

DUBAI/LONDON, June 27: Digital rights content aggregator Media Gateway has reached a deal with BBC Motion Gallery to bring the best content from the public broadcaster’s last 60 years to mobile phone users in Europe and the Middle East. The …

LONDON/NEW YORK, June 27: Breakthrough Interactive Group (BIG) has chosen the IPTV outfit Narrowstep’s telvOS technology to power its martial arts-themed broadband TV portal, MAC Experience. Launching July 7, the multiple-channel broadband site is aimed at the some 120 million …

NORTH SYDNEY, June 27: Nickelodeon Spain has acquired The Sleepover Club from Southern Star International. The live-action series, based on Rose Impey’s popular books, revolves around the lives of five teenage girls who form their own secret society. The television …

LONDON, June 27: The U.K. distribution company, Fireworks International, has closed a series of sales from its expanding catalogue of children’s programming. Black Hole High is based on the strange events occurring in Black Holsey High, and all four seasons …

LONDON, June 27: Speculation in London’s City has it that ITV chief executive Charles Allen may be ousted by ITV’s shareholders if the broadcaster doesn’t improve its financial performance. Audience shares and advertising revenues at the U.K.’s leading commercial broadcaster …

NEW DELHI, June 27: India’s government is proposing legislation that would regulate the country’s broadcast industry. The bill is aimed at Indian media companies, but places restrictions on local programming that would impact foreign channels as well, such as News …

LOS ANGELES, June 27: Univision Communications’ board approved a $12.3 billion sale of the leading Spanish-language network in the U.S. to a consortium of investors—not to Televisa, who had also bid for the network. The investor group is led by …

LONDON, June 26: TV2 Norway has acquired the ten-part crypto-zoology series Animal X: The Natural Mystery Unit from British distributor MercuryMedia. Originally commissioned by Animal Planet in the U.S., the $2.5 million series from Australia’s Storyteller Media Group concerns a …

BRISTOL, June 26: Five has commissioned Tigress Productions to produce six additional episodes of the series Austin Stevens Adventures for broadcast on the station this summer. The show follows the adventures of the eponymous South African herpetologist as he confronts …

TORONTO, June 26: HGTV in the U.S. has picked up the first season of the Canadian lifestyle program Kitchen Crimes from Picture Box Distribution, with an option to acquire further episodes. The series from Winnipeg’s Frantic Films, set to premiere …