World Screen

SILVER SPRING: Discovery Networks International (DNI) has promoted Armando de Castro to the role of VP of finance from senior director of financial planning and analysis.   De Castro will be based in Silver Spring and will continue to report …

LOS ANGELES: Crackle, Sony Pictures Entertainment’s multiplatform video entertainment network, is to launch an app on Xbox Live this fall in the U.S., U.K., Canada and Australia featuring free full-length Hollywood movies and TV.   The app will be available …

CANNES: activeTV Australia, the producer of the Amazing Race Australia series, has secured format rights in Australia and New Zealand for Mantracker from kelencontent.   Mantracker, currently in its seventh season on OLN in Canada, is now airing on Discovery …

CULVER CITY, October 6: 3net is to debut three new original programs, including the adult drama series Scary Tales, the lost civilization series The Ancient Life and Indy 500: The Inside Line.   The Ancient Life (working title), premiering October …

CANNES: Content Television’s history series Wild Wales is making its way to NHK Japan as part of a raft of acquisitions for the programming from the Content West catalogue. Wild Wales aired on BBC Two in the U.K. It will …

CANNES: Finland, Denmark and the Netherlands are among the territories to have picked up the NRK format Teenage Boss through DRG. This spring DRG became the exclusive distributor of NRK Formats. DR in Denmark has commissioned six episodes of Teenage Boss …

CANNES: Disney’s Anne Sweeney discussed the numerous new opportunities presented by digital technology, asserting that “television has been unleashed,” in her MIPCOM keynote today before sitting down for a Q&A with World Screen’s Anna Carugati. Sweeney, co-chair of Disney Media …

CANNES: Singapore’s Scrawl Studios has signed a co-production pact with France’s Cyber Group Studios for the CG animated series Zou. The 52×11-minute preschool series has been presold in 50 countries, including to the broadcasters France 5, TeleQuebec and Disney EMEA. …

CANNES: CTV’s Mike Cosentino, Sky’s Sarah Wright, Channel 5’s Jeff Ford and Televisa’s Carlos Sandoval received the inaugural World Screen Content Trendsetter Awards in partnership with MIPCOM in Cannes today. These programming heavyweights received their awards at the end of …

CANNES: Some 500 hours of new lifestyle content is headed to Fine Living Network for its internationally distributed channel, including a license agreement with Veria for more than 200 hours HD programming. Among the titles picked up from the Veria catalogue …