World Screen

TORONTO: Breakthrough Entertainment heads into DISCOP East with a number of deals already secured in Central and Eastern Europe. Battlefield Mysteries and Greatest Tank Battles were picked up by Czech TV. Greatest Tank Battles has also been licensed to CODI …

LOS ANGELES: The hit ABC reality series Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, produced by Endemol USA, will be honored with NATPE’s third annual Innovator Award at the LATV Fest on July 13. Endemol USA’s Caroline Baumgard, the senior VP of development, …

LONDON: Endemol’s The Money Drop has been picked up for a broadcast pilot by FOX, following the company’s ABC deal on 101 Ways to Leave a Gameshow. Production starts this summer for Endemol USA’s The Money Drop pilot, based on Endemol …

LOS ANGELES/SINGAPORE: Outdoor Channel is set to roll out in Taiwan and Vietnam, via new carriage agreements clinched by Multi Channels Asia, a Singapore-based venture that represents, distributes and owns a number of thematic pay-TV channels across Asia Pacific. In Taiwan, …

MUMBAI: ACK Media, publisher of India’s best-known children’s comic series, Amar Chitra Katha—the basis of a television series for Cartoon Network in India—has received an equity investment from Elephant Capital. Elephant Capital has acquired a "significant minority stake" in the company for …

LONDON: The Royal Television Society’s lineup for its 2010 international conference is headlined by Time Warner chair and CEO Jeff Bewkes, who will deliver this year’s keynote. The U.K. broadcasting minister, Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP, the secretary of state …

MUNICH: ProSiebenSat.1 Media is selling N24 as well as the Maz&More production company, to the news channel’s senior management, consisting of Dr. Torsten Rossmann, Stefan Aust and Thorsten Pollfuss. Following the transaction, N24 Media will be Germany’s largest independent TV …

BANFF: The Canadian Television Fund (CTF), now known as the Canada Media Fund (CMF), delivered close to C$328 million in financing to local productions in the year ended March 31, 2010, 14-percent higher than in 2008-2009 and 23-percent higher than the average …

BURBANK: Scott Rowe has been appointed to the newly created role of senior VP of worldwide communications for the Warner Bros. Television Group, while Tammy Golihew has been upped to senior VP of publicity for Warner Bros. Television. Rowe is …

BANFF: The Canadian Film and Television Production Association has changed its name to the Canadian Media Production Association (CMPA), with Tom Cox as the new chair to lead the rebranding. The name change is to better reflect the idea that …