World Screen

LONDON: Cineflix International Distribution has sold 69 hours of factual content to the Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset to air on Italia 1 and Italia 2. It is Cineflix International’s largest-ever deal with an Italian broadcaster. The titles Mediaset picked up …

  This interview originally appeared in the MIPTV 2011 issue of World Screen.   For decades, Warner Bros. has been producing some of television’s biggest hits, from Cheyenne in the ’50s to the more recent The Mentalist, The Closer and …

This interview originally appeared in the MIPTV 2011 issue of TV Real. Professor Schama (he is on the faculty at Columbia University) has an in-depth knowledge of history, art and culture, surpassed only by his exquisite and elegant command of …

LOS ANGELES: A number of new appointments have been made within MGM’s TV department, including Vinicio Espinosa being named VP for Latin American television distribution. Espinosa joins MGM as the VP for Latin American television distribution. Espinosa will oversee the …

A multi-year, multi-platform venture, Curiosity: The Questions of Life is slated to make its U.S. debut on Discovery this August before heading to sister channels across Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Asia Pacific beginning in September. …

Hot Docs’ executive director, Chris McDonald, talks about the takeover of Toronto’s Bloor Cinema and the opportunities it will create for doc filmmakers worldwide. The fate of Toronto’s landmark Bloor Cinema had been in question after the century-old theater announced …

SILVER SPRING, July 18: Discovery Channel has upped Dolores Gavin to senior VP of development and production from the VP position. Gavin is based at the Silver Spring headquarters and will be tasked with overseeing development and production strategy. She …

SILVER SPRING: Investigation Discovery has added its first docu-series, Big Law: Deputy Butterbean, starring Eric “Butterbean” Esch, a 400-pound former heavyweight boxer who joins the Sheriff’s Narcotics Unit in Jasper, Alabama, to its lineup. The ten-part series will premiere Tuesday, …

SINGAPORE: The Outdoor Channel Asia has secured a partnership with the Coca-Cola Indonesian Surfing Championship (ISC) and the Asian Surfing Championship (ASC) to air the competitive events throughout the Asia-Pacific region. As a result of the deal, the Outdoor Channel …

HERTFORDSHIRE: Parthenon Entertainment has sold 80 hours of programming to leading free-TV broadcasters in Scandinavia, including Norway’s NRK. TV10 in Sweden picked up 65 hours of blue-chip science and history series, including the 13×1-hour Sports Science, which tests top athletes …