World Screen

SAN BRUNO: A new YouTube project will collect submissions from users to create a feature documentary called Life in a Day, directed by Kevin Macdonald and exec-produced by Ridley Scott. The doc will attempt to capture one day, as seen through …

HONG KONG: FOX International Channels has entered into a deal with Asia Television (aTV) to launch Baby TV programming in a half-hour block every weekday on the free-to-air broadcaster in Hong Kong. Starting at 9:30 a.m. every weekday, Baby TV …

NEW YORK: Sunil Shahani, previously with leading Indian production firm Balaji Telefilms, is joining Scripps Networks International to drive the company’s entry into the Indian television market. The appointment comes two months after Scripps and NDTV called off their Indian JV deal. The …

NEW YORK/LONDON/BARCELONA: 41 Entertainment (41e) has unveiled a new property, Blake: Double Identity, which it has slated for a fall 2011 release. The 26×24-minute series will be co-produced with TOONF. Andy Briggs will write, while Eric Robert directs. The property …

LONDON: Lee Bartlett and Remy Blumenfeld are both exiting ITV Studios as part of a management restructure that sees Maria Kyriacou coming in to run the global entertainment division. Bartlett joined the British broadcasting group in 2008 to run its British …

BURBANK: Jimmy Blackburn has taken on the role of VP of programming research for Disney Channels Worldwide, after spending the past ten years at Nickelodeon, where he was most recently senior director of kids and family audience research. Blackburn is …

LONDON: The newly created role of director of CBeebies Investment is to be filled by Henrietta Hurford-Jones, who will be responsible for developing and investing in new original content for the channels internationally. She will manage the global investment process …

HONG KONG: A report from Media Partners Asia (MPA) and Charles River Associates (CRA) has identified "potential flaws" in the new cross-carriage rules for Singapore’s pay-TV sector. The new rules, announced in March, require that pay-TV players SingTel and StarHub …

NEW YORK: Michel Rodrigue, who serves as a distribution consultant for Engine Entertainment’s format division, talks in this video interview about the global appeal of the interactive format Thumb Wars and how its use of technology lends itself to built-in …

SÃO PAULO: Globo TV International’s Watercolors of Love, which has been sold into 12 countries in less than six months, has premiered on ATB in Bolivia. The telenovela was written by Walcyr Carrasco, known for his work on such titles …