World Screen

This interview originally appeared in the October (MIPCOM) 2010 issue of World Screen. He’s a brilliant diagnostician, armed with a keen intellect, Machiavellian instincts, brutal honesty and oh, yes, an addiction to Vicodin. He’s Dr. Gregory House, the complex protagonist …

NEW YORK: World Screen has promoted Cesar Suero to the role of sales and marketing manager. In his newly promoted role, Suero manages ad sales and marking efforts for World Screen and its supplements, including the Spanish-language TV Latina. Suero …

MUMBAI: The joint venture between Reliance Broadcast Network and CBS Studios International has clinched a distribution deal to bring their three entertainment channels to DEN Networks’ analogue and digital and cable TV platforms. Reliance and CBS Studios International have partnered to operate …

BURBANK: The new live-action comedy Wasabi Warriors (working title), set within a strip-mall martial arts studio, is headed into production for a 2011 debut on Disney XD channels around the world. The show centers on the Bobby Wasabi Martial Arts …

LOS ANGELES: The Screen Actors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) have reached a tentative agreement for new contracts covering basic cable and TV animation. At the start of this week, SAG and the American Federation of Television …

LOS ANGELES: Basic Lead, the organizers of the DISCOP conventions, along with the Paris-based training consultancy The Media Faculty, are launching a new event to take place in Los Angeles that will focus on foreign adaptation rights for film, TV …

FRISCO: Almost 34 percent of iPad owners are likely to cancel their pay-TV service within the next six months, according to new research from Texas-based firm The Diffusion Group (TDG). "Despite the fact that cord-cutting remains more widely discussed than …

VENICE: Splash News has firmed up an agreement to provide a weekly half-hour Hollywood and celebrity magazine show to T-CAST Channels’ FashionN in Korea. Launching this month, SNTV: Splash News TV will feature Hollywood news and celebrity gossip each week in …

BURBANK: The Walt Disney Company’s fourth-quarter profit fell by 6.7 percent to $835 million, but net income for the full year gained 20 percent to $3.96 billion. Revenues, meanwhile, were stable in the quarter at $9.7 billion and up 5 …

MIAMI: Following on the success of shows such as Isa TKM and Isa TK+, MTV Networks Latin America has pledged its continued commitment to producing long-form local content for audiences in the region. The company teamed up with Sony Pictures …