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Interviews

Red Arrow Entertainment Group’s Jan Frouman

August 27, 2015

Red Arrow Entertainment Group, a part of the ProSiebenSat.1 Group, may be headquartered in Germany, but it has significantly increased its presence in the U.S. and the U.K. while boosting its output of English-language product. CEO Jan Frouman oversees all …

AMC Networks’ Ed Carroll

August 26, 2015

PREMIUM: AMC Networks’ COO, Ed Carroll, explains to World Screen how original series featuring unique storytelling and subject matter are attracting viewers around the world. WS: In the post-Mad Men and post-Breaking Bad world, when a lot of people thought …

David Zaslav

June 22, 2015

This interview originally appeared in the MIPTV 2015 issue of World Screen. Discovery Communications reaches some 3 billion cumulative subscribers in more than 220 countries and territories through more than 190 worldwide networks. Leading the pack of channels are Discovery …

Cecile Frot-Coutaz

June 15, 2015

CEO Cecile Frot-Coutaz talks about the high demand for drama, trends in the formats business and the company’s growing children’s programming slate.

Hernan Lopez

June 8, 2015

This interview originally appeared in the MIPTV 2015 issue of World Screen. FOX International Channels (FIC) recently consolidated all of its 126 FOX channels outside of the U.S. under a single unified brand positioning and network package. The move underscores …

Thomas Rabe

June 1, 2015

This interview originally appeared in the MIPTV 2015 issue of World Screen. What do American Idol, Fifty Shades of Grey, Good Times, Bad Times, The Cat in the Hat, Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time, Scènes de Ménages, The …

Endemol Shine International’s Cathy Payne

May 21, 2015

Cathy Payne is no stranger to big company mergers. Back in 2009, when Endemol acquired the Southern Star Group, Payne was chief executive of Southern Star International and she was tasked with combining the catalogues and sales teams of the …

Discovery Communications’™ David Zaslav

March 25, 2015

Discovery Communications reaches some 3 billion cumulative subscribers in more than 220 countries and territories through more than 190 worldwide networks. Leading the pack of channels are Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Investigation Discovery, Science and the joint-venture network OWN: …

M. Night Shyamalan

March 9, 2015

This interview originally appeared in the MIPCOM 2014 issue of World Screen. What started a few years ago as a slow trickle of feature-film talent to television has become a seemingly endless flow. And it’s no longer just the premium …

Tim Worner

February 2, 2015

This interview originally appeared in the MIPCOM 2014 issue of World Screen. Anyone jittery about the future of broadcast networks—given the fragmentation of the audience, viewers creating their own on-demand schedules and sluggish advertising markets—need only look to Seven Network …