World Screen

TORONTO, July 13: Lightworks Program Distribution has appointed Peace Arch Television as its exclusive television distributor in the Canadian market. Among the titles included in the new partnership are CS Lewis: Beyond Narnia; the stop motion animation Davey & Goliath …

LONDON, July 13: Former members of successful boy bands will be brought together in a new series from MTV Networks International that will be made available to all MTV channels globally and will air in a terrestrial slot in the …

NEW YORK, July 13: Visitors to the TVLand.com website will soon be able to access several classic TV shows, including Star Trek, as well as interstitial series, celebrity interviews and other content via a new broadband video player. "TVLand.com has …

LONDON, July 13: FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) has granted Arts Alliance Media the rights to deliver up to 200 hours of its classic comedy titles to broadband Internet users in the U.K. Programming will be sourced from the FremantleMedia and talkbackTHAMES …

LOS ANGELES/ATLANTA, July 13: Wireless carrier Cingular and HBO have launched mobile mini-episodes of the comedy Entourage featuring some the show’s key cast members. The mobisodes are available to Cingular Video customers who subscribe to HBO Mobile. They see character …

MONTREAL, July 13: The Cookie Jar Group has offloaded its 20-percent stake in the TELETOON network to Astral Media and Corus Entertainment for C$96 million. Astral and Corus each picked up a 10-percent stake, bringing their respective shares up to …

SANTA MONICA, July 13: A day after acquiring the independent distributor Debmar-Mercury, Lionsgate has further strengthened its library with the acquisition of the U.S. television, DVD and some VOD rights to some 2,000 English- and French-language titles from Studio Canal. …

SUN VALLEY, July 13: At Allen & Company’s Sun Valley media conference this week, senior Televisa executives reportedly met with representatives from the consortium that is in the process of buying Univision about the possibility of retaining its stake in …

HOLLYWOOD, July 13: According to wire reports, The Walt Disney Company is planning a significant work force reduction and is set to slash its annual feature film output from 18 to 8. Further, according to Daily Variety, the bulk of …

SYDNEY, July 13: The Australian government today announced a slate of reforms for the media industry, including the relaxation of cross-media and foreign-ownership rules, the lifting of programming restrictions on ABC and SBS’s digital channels, and granting commercial free-to-air broadcasters …