World Screen

NEW YORK: Lisa Silverman Meyers is moving from Nickelodeon Consumer Products’ U.S. division to a wider post at Nickelodeon & Viacom Consumer Products (NVCP). Silverman Meyers has been appointed as the senior VP of operations and business planning for NVCP. …

LOS ANGELES: On the Twentieth Century Fox lot Tuesday, the mood among program buyers here for the annual L.A. Screenings marathon was altogether more upbeat now that the studio has bulked up on the dramas it has to license abroad. …

BEVERLY HILLS: Netflix plans to make all seven half-hour episodes of the original Ricky Gervais comedy Derek available at once on September 12. Netlfix has landed the comedy to stream in the U.S., Canada, Ireland, Latin America, Brazil and the …

SYDNEY: Bauer Media is working with Shine Australia and Network Ten to publish the MasterChef Collectibles series of cookbooks. The three-part collectible cookbook set will feature recipes from past and present MasterChef contestants. The books will be published to coincide …

ZURICH: Viewster says it has clinched new licensing deals for 240 hours of American, British and Korean content, including Head Case, Mayday, Skins and Boys Over Flowers, for its free on-demand service. In a deal with Starz Digital Media, Viewster …

TORONTO/LONDON: The acquisition of Alliance Films earlier this year helped boost Entertainment One’s financial results for the year ended March 31, 2013, with revenues up 25 percent to £629.1 million ($994.2 million). Overall film revenues were £518 million ($784.3 million), …

PREMIUM: Whether the adrenaline rush of Hostages, the tug on the heartstrings of Believe, or the laugh-out-loud antics of Rebel Wilson in Super Fun Night or Allison Janney in Mom, Warner Bros.’ upcoming prime-time hopefuls appeared Monday to have considerable …

The interview originally appeared in the MIPTV 2013 issue of World Screen.  Fernando Szew is the first to admit that the ten years since 2003, when MarVista Entertainment was founded, have gone by very, very quickly. What has contributed to …

This article originally appeared in the MIPTV 2013 issue of TV Formats.   The top 50 European formats generated a value of $2 billion in 2011—and well over $800 million of that total was produced by just five U.K.-originated properties: …

PREMIUM: Disney opened its Burbank studio doors wide Sunday evening to welcome some 650 foreign TV program buyers for the L.A. Screenings, the Hollywood majors’ first sales bazaar of the year for its new prime-time series, where Alan Horn and …