World Screen

Singapore, Malaysia, India and Korea are home to a slew of animation producers making inroads in the global kids’ content market. Asia has always been a force in the global kids’ content-production business, but for many years it has been …

  This article originally appeared in the MIPCOM 2010 issue of TV Europe.   What a difference a year makes. Only last summer, parts of the French TV industry were looking more like a reality-TV series than a thriving business. …

PARIS: The nominees for the 38th annual Annie Awards include GIMC’s Cloud Bread up for best animated TV production for children, along with Nickelodeon’s SpongeBob SquarePants and Fanboy & Chum Chum and Cartoon Network Studios’ Adventure Time and Frederator, Regular …

This interview originally appeared in the MIPCOM 2010 issue of TV Kids.   The German company Your Family Entertainment (YFE) focuses on high-quality programming for children and families. It also puts a premium on the creative force that can be …

TORONTO: Originally developed for the TELETOON at Night Pilot Project, the animated series Fugget About It has been given a 13-episode order for 9 Story Entertainment to produce the show in English and French. The TELETOON at Night Pilot Project …

BUDAPEST/WARSAW: HBO Central Europe is bringing the broadband VOD service HBO GO to subscribers in Poland. Subscribers of HBO Poland can access HBO VOD content on any computer connected to the Internet. Initially the service will only be available to customers of …

LONDON: The BBC Two single drama When Harvey Met Bob, about the staging of the first Live Aid concerts, is headed to BBC America. Produced by Great Meadow Productions and distributed by BBC Worldwide, the drama stars Domhnall Gleeson (Harry Potter and the …

NEW YORK: Oxygen Media has given the greenlight to a new reality competition series, tentatively titled Best Ink, that looks at the artistry of tattooing. Best Ink features 12 tattoo artists as they compete for a cash prize. The permanent …

BETHPAGE: Cablevision Systems Corporation is moving forward with the spinoff of Rainbow Media, its division that operates AMC, IFC, Sundance Channel and WE tv. The leveraged spinoff is being structured as a tax-free pro rata distribution to Cablevision stockholders and …

EL SEGUNDO: DIRECTV has increased its ownership of SKY Brasil to about 93 percent, purchasing 178.83 million shares from Globo Comunicação e Participações for $604.8 million. With the sale of 18.9 percent of the platform to DIRECTV, Globo now owns just 7 …