World Screen

LONDON: Following a carriage agreement with UPC Ireland, Food Network has launched in Ireland to all UPC digital subscribers as of today. UPC Ireland subscribers will now have access to programs such as Chopped, Barefoot Contessa with Ina Garten, Food …

LONDON: Electric Sky has secured a range of deals across Scandinavia and Canada, scoring sales on titles such as Guilty Pleasures and Children of the Revolution. TV Ontario in Canada has picked up My Street. The documentary special is from …

BUENOS AIRES/LONDON: Production has begun on Violetta, the first original live-action series created by Disney Channel Latin America and Disney Channels Europe, Middle East and Africa. Violetta is about a teenager who returns to her native Buenos Aires and finds …

NEW YORK: Alexandra Smith and Ayn Prince have been made directors of programming for Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movie Channel, respectively, following appointments made by Crown Media Family Networks. Crown Media Family Networks is a division of parent company Crown …

PARIS: Nelonen Finland has commissioned Solar Television, a Banijay Group company, to produce the game show Faces to air in early 2012. Solar Television will produce 14 one-hour episodes of the game show. Faces is a quiz show format in …

LONDON: Joss Duffield has been appointed head of international sales at Entertainment One (eOne) Family. Duffield will be based in eOne’s London office and will report to Olivier Dumont, the managing director of Entertainment One Family. She will be responsible …

PARIS: PGS Entertainment’s Invisible Network of Kids (I.N.K.) has scored new deals in territories such as the Middle East, Turkey, Ireland and Kosovo. The show is headed to MBC3 in the Middle East, ATV’s Minika in Turkey and TG4 in …

NEW YORK/WARSAW: Sundance Channel Global has launched an HD video-on-demand service in Poland on UPC Polska, with titles such as The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret as well as the music series London Live. Indie films such as Screw Cupid, Uncle …

SANTA MONICA: Hundreds of titles from the Miramax film library will be offered digitally for the first time in Latin America under a new deal with Netflix. Netflix members in Latin American territories such as Mexico, Brazil and Argentina will …

PARIS: Kevin Reilly, the president of entertainment at Fox Broadcasting Company, has been lined up for a keynote address on Tuesday, October 4, at MIPCOM, as part of the Media Masterminds series of presentations. Reilly will discuss what it takes …