World Screen

BURBANK, June 28: NBC will begin airing the first of 10 original webisodes on July 13; based on the network’s hit show, The Office. Airing Thursdays on NBC, The Office stars Golden Globe winner Steve Carell, Jenna Fischer, John Krasinski, …

LONDON, June 28: ITV will be airing a prime-time stop-motion animation show based on the book series Flanimals by Ricky Gervais, the co-creator and star of The Office and Extras. The animated TV series, consisting of six 30-minute episodes, written …

LONDON, June 28: Sky has introduced a new service than allows viewers to program their Sky+ digital boxes by mobile phone. The service, called Remote Record, will be available as an SMS service, on mobile Internet and on the sky.com …

NEW YORK, June 28: Universal McCann’s Bob Coen cut his 2006 advertising forecast for the U.S. He expects ad spend to increase by 5.6 percent to $286.4 billion instead of 5.8 percent, which he predicted last December. The downgrade is …

LONDON, June 28: BBC Worldwide presented its Annual Review for 2005/2006 and announced profits of £89.4 million, a year on year increase of 62 percent, and sales up by 11 percent to £784.4 million. The increase in profits was achieved …

BURBANK/SAN MATTEO, June 28: NBC and YouTube, the media company that allows people to watch and share original videos through a worldwide web, have announced a strategic partnership. Under the terms of the agreement NBC will be able to promote …

TV Kids Weekly, June 27, 2006 NAME: Lunar Jim ORIGIN: Lunar Jim is an original series, developed by The Halifax Film Company and Alliance Atlantis. The series centers around Jim and his friends, including Rover the Robot Dog, Ripple the …

LONDON, June 27: E! International has appointed Justin Davison to the position of ad sales director for the newly created in-house international advertising sales division. Based out of E!’s London office, Davison will manage local territorial ad sales house relationships …

NEW YORK, June 27: A&E Television Networks (AETN) announced the promotion of Nancy Dubuc to Senior Vice President, Non-Fiction Programming and New Media Content. “Nancy and her team have done a masterful job creating distinctive programming that resonates with a …

AMSTERDAM, June 27: Netherlands-based Off the Fence has announced the addition of NHNZ producer, writer and narrator Peter Hayden to the production company’s team for a one-year period. Hayden’s last documentary project was as the executive producer and writer for …