World Screen

CULVER CITY: The Sony Movie Channel is honoring Bollywood with a week-long “best of” series, Bollywood Masala, to air November 6 to 12. Bollywood Masala will offer popular Bollywood films of the past 30 years, featuring the stars Amitabh Bachchan, …

MADRID: Zinkia Entertainment has signed an agreement that grants the global music rights, excluding Spain and the U.K., for the animated series Pocoyo to EMI Music Publishing. EMI Music Publishing will administer all music rights for Pocoyo’s theme music, incidental …

TORONTO: Reeshma Esmail has been promoted to VP and head of digital ad sales for BBC.com and Lonelyplanet.com to work from the BBC Worldwide Canada office. Esmail will report to Mark Gall, the executive VP of BBC North America ad …

HONG KONG: AsiaSat has made Dr. Ya-Hui Chiu the advisor to the president and CEO of the company, following his recent retirement from the VP of technical operations position. Chiu will continue to oversee the launch of AsiaSat 7 scheduled …

MIAMI: Discovery Familia is set to bring the Spanish-language version of Artzooka!, co-produced with CCI Entertainment, to U.S. Hispanic audiences starting this month. The 26×30-minute Spanish-language series produced in partnership with CCI will premiere August 22 and air Monday through …

LONDON/CULVER CITY: Channel 4 has signed on for the U.K. broadcast rights to the new Sony Pictures Television series Charlie’s Angels to air on E4. The series is a remake based on the original ’70s TV show. Charlie’s Angels is …

SILVER SPRING: The new six-part series Dark Matters: Twisted But True, launching this month on SCIENCE, delves into some of history’s most bizarre experiments and unusual research. The show uses CGI recreations to bring viewers into the laboratory to witness …

TORONTO: Corus Entertainment and Force Four Entertainment have started production on a new ten-part docu-series for the Canadian OWN channel, Million Dollar Neighbourhood, which follows a community’s journey toward financial freedom. The show, to air on OWN Canada in early …

LOS ANGELES: Reveille is to develop original digital series for the online video site Break Media and its flagship comedy portal Break.com. Reveille is behind hit shows such as MasterChef, The Biggest Loser, The Office and Ugly Betty. Its digital …

LONDON: Two new World War II programs, The Long March to Freedom and Into the Wind, have been added to the Yesterday’s Spirit of 1940s lineup. The Long March to Freedom is a three-part series co-produced with ASA UK. It …