Interviews

This interview originally appeared in the MIPCOM 2013 issue of World Screen. With 53 TV channels and 28 radio stations in ten countries, as well as the production and distribution powerhouse FremantleMedia, the RTL Group is Europe’s leading broadcast and …

This interview originally appeared in the MIPCOM 2013 issues of TV Formats and World Screen. In its quest to come up with hit shows that can travel around the globe, Endemol operates some 90 companies in more than 30 countries. …

Ahead of the Asia TV Forum, Yeo Chun Cheng, assistant chief executive (industry) at the Media Development Authority (MDA), tells World Screen about how the organization is encouraging local producers as well as enticing international media companies to Singapore. Through …

This interview originally appeared in the MIPCOM 2013 issue of World Screen. Alec Baldwin is so much more than an award-winning actor. Highlights of his prolific career include his work on stage (A Streetcar Named Desire, Macbeth); the films The …

Power is co-producing a brand-new lavish period drama, New Worlds, along with Company Pictures for Channel 4 in the U.K. The four-hour mini-series, set in the 1680s in England and America, charts a story of love, loss and the fight …

This interview originally appeared in the MIPCOM 2013 issues of TV Formats and World Screen. On the heels of the success of The Voice, which has been produced in more than 50 countries (and with finished-program sales to some 160 …

This interview originally appeared in the MIPCOM 2013 issue of World Screen. Founded in 1895, France’s Gaumont is the world’s oldest movie studio. The company’s vice-CEO, Christophe Riandée, is relaunching its television division and leveraging the legacy, industry connections and …

Paul Dempsey, who as president of global markets at BBC Worldwide has responsibility for operations in all non-English-language territories, shares his outlook on the company’s businesses across Asia, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. WS: Why was the …

This interview appeared in the MIPCOM 2013 issue of World Screen. Today she is known around the world as Carrie Mathison, the brilliant but troubled and bipolar CIA agent in the Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning Showtime drama Homeland, but Claire …

PREMIUM: Just Spee, the CEO of Endemol, talks to World Screen about managing the debt left over from the change in Endemol ownership two years ago, and looks ahead to numerous growth opportunities in several areas around the world. WS: …