World Screen

LOS ANGELES: Addressing some of the logistical difficulties from this year’s NATPE Conference and Market, the event’s organizers have unveiled some changes for the 2012 edition, including adding additional exhibition meeting room options and spreading out the exhibitor suites at the Fontainebleau …

LONDON: Content Television has secured the worldwide distribution rights, outside of China and Japan, for the factual series World Heritage of China, via a deal with China Stories Inc. The HD doc series was produced by China Central Television (CCTV), …

LONDON: The Walt Disney Company’s TV group has picked up CAKE’s Oscar’s Oasis for select Disney XD and Disney Channel feeds, while Poppy Cat heads to Disney Junior in Spain and Latin America. The 78×7-minute 3D animated comedy Oscar’s Oasis …

LONDON: GroupM has reduced its U.K. advertising forecast for 2011 from a 3.6-percent growth rate to 1.5 percent, following last year’s 8.9 percent recovery. The firm notes in its downgrade report that real household disposable income today in the U.K. …

SANTA MONICA: In an extension of a longstanding broadcast partnership, CBS has signed a new ten-year deal with The Recording Academy to continue as the U.S. home of the Grammy Awards through 2021. CBS has broadcast the awards since 1973. …

LONDON: Endemol is partnering with Simon Fuller’s XIX Entertainment for the talent show ¡Q’viva! The Chosen, which stars Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony. Endemol will serve as the producing partner with XIX across the 21 Latin American countries where the …

PREMIUM: Movies and children’s programs are the main areas for acquisitions for the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT), according to its deputy director-general, Zeynel Koç.  What age groups do you target?   TRT is the first and the only …

MONTREAL: Attraction Media has named Daniel Vermette as president of its new company Connexion Films International. As president, Vermette will be responsible for establishing and developing international co-production partnerships. Prior to this, he was the VP of Canada at Technicolor …

SANTA MONICA: To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the series The Fairly OddParents, Nickelodeon is to present a live-action and CG-animated TV movie, A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner!, on Saturday, July 9, at 8 p.m. A Fairly …

BOGOTÁ: Caracol Television’s drama series Roman x 2 is set to air five days a week on the Zone Romantica channel in Eastern Europe beginning June 27. The Colombian program will be broadcast Monday through Friday by Zone Romantica, which …