World Screen

BURBANK/PARIS: Caroline Lang is now senior VP and managing director for France at Warner Bros. International Television Distribution (WBITD), overseeing the studio’s TV distribution business in the market. Lang, formerly VP and managing director, is responsible for the licensing of television …

MONTREAL/LOS ANGELES: HOLA Entertainment is offering up the Latin American free-TV rights to 52 half-hour episodes of Productions MAJ’s Discovery Channel Canada series How It’s Made. Known in Spanish as Cómo se hace, the series—which in total consists of 182 half-hour episodes—looks at the …

COLOGNE: The Prettiest Girl In The Class, a format represented by ohm:tv, has secured options in a number of European markets, including France and Portugal. The Dutch format from Simpel Media, in production for season four on Ned 1, has …

LONDON: ALL3MEDIA International has licensed Rachel Allen: Bake! to Scripps Networks Interactive’s new U.S. Cooking Channel, among other broadcasters. Rachel Allen: Bake!, produced by Cactus Television for UKTV in association with BBC and RTE, has also sold to Viasat (Sweden), RTL …

LORETO: Deals have been signed in Russia, France and French-speaking territories for back-to-school products based in Rainbow SpA’s new girl-skewing property PopPixie. In Russia, AST has licensed the rights till 2012 in an agreement that also includes Rainbow’s Winx Club …

SWEDEN: Svensk Filmindustri has clinched a deal to distribute DVD and Blu-ray titles from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) in the Nordic territories, beginning October 1. Rasmus Ramstad, CEO of Svensk Filmindustri, said of the agreement: “The rental business is still …

NEW YORK: Mark Hollinger, president and CEO of Discovery Networks International, discusses the international rollout of TLC and HD and other growth prospects for the company in this video interview.   A Discovery veteran—he has been with the company since …

SINGAPORE: Pay-TV revenues are expected to top $312 billion worldwide this year, according to ABI Research, a year-on-year gain of 7 percent. While growth slowed last year as a result of the recession, 2010 will see operators benefiting from new subscribers and …

SÃO PAULO: Watercolors of Love, one of Globo TV International’s key novelas at the L.A. Screenings this week, has shored up deals in 12 markets since its launch on the international market four months ago. The novela has begun airing in …

NEW YORK: Spike TV has given the greenlight to a new original series, Auction Heroes, and has unveiled a new pilot, Wild Animal Repo. The 8×30-minute Auction Heroes from Gurney Productions focuses on storage-container auctions. The show will center on two …