World Screen

Celebrating and encouraging wildlife and environmental filmmaking, the Wildscreen Festival returns to Bristol from Sunday, October 10, to Friday, October 15. The biennial event first took place in 1982, born from a need to honor the increasingly popular wildlife genre, …

ABC3 COUNTRY: Australia LAUNCH DATE: December 2009 OWNERSHIP: Australian Broadcasting Corporation DISTRIBUTION: In Australia, 80 percent of homes have access to ABC3. DIRECTOR, ABC TELEVISION: Kim Dalton EXECUTIVE HEAD, CHILDREN’S CONTENT, ABC TELEVISION: Tim Brooke-Hunt HEAD, COMMISSIONING & DEVELOPMENT, ABC …

NEW YORK: Ahead of DISCOP Africa 4, which kicks off September 1, World Screen offers up a look at buying and selling trends in the region. To view it, please click here. The DISCOP Africa Preview includes an interview with …

LOS ANGELES: Gary MacKinney, the VP of sales and distribution at Rive Gauche Television, has been given an expanded role under the company’s recent corporate re-structuring. MacKinney will now be handling new sales assignments in key international territories for Rive …

BURBANK: Jennifer Aniston will be reunited with her Friends co-star Courteney Cox on the second season premiere of ABC’s Cougar Town. Cox leads the cast of Cougar Town, alongside Christa Miller, Busy Philipps, Dan Byrd, Josh Hopkins, Ian Gomez and …

LONDON: 4Kids Entertainment’s Dinosaur King, which is set to launch in its second season in the U.K. on GMTV on November 1, has five new licensees on board. Signature Publishing has joined Harper Collins as part of the U.K. publishing …

LONDON: The UKTV entertainment channel Watch has picked up from Outright Distribution the U.S. and Australian versions of World’s Strictest Parents. World’s Strictest Parents US and World’s Strictest Parents Australia will be complemented on air by the acquisition of the British …

ENGLEWOOD: DISH Network has become the first U.S. carrier to provide the HD version of AMC to its subscribers. The Rainbow Media-owned cable network features a mix of signature original productions—including the Emmy-winning Mad Men, Breaking Bad and, more recently, Rubicon—as well …

TEL AVIV: Germany’s RTL has ordered Armoza Formats’ Comedians at Work, to air in a prime-time slot starting in November under the title Stars bei der Arbeit. The show will be hosted by German comedian Kaya Yanar and produced by …

PETALING JAYA: Malaysian conglomerate Media Prima Berhad has launched an online video site, TonTon, featuring movies and dramas from the Hollywood studios, as well as Asian content. Development of TonTon was led by Alt Media, Media Prima’s digital communications and …