Interviews

Currently a columnist for Vanity Fair and founder of the news aggregating website Newser.com, Michael Wolff has been covering the media business for decades. For his latest book, The Man Who Owns The News, a biography of Rupert Murdoch, the …

  April 2009   The Shine Group consists of four British production companies: Kudos, Dragonfly, Shine TV and Princess, which have created a slew of hits, including Spooks, Hustle and Life on Mars. Last year, Shine acquired Reveille, the producer …

Chairman & CEO Time Warner   When Jeffrey Bewkes became CEO of Time Warner last year, he took over a content powerhouse. The Warner Bros. studio produces and distributes a constant output of hit feature films and TV series. Turner …

Creator & Executive Producer Mad Men As the creator and executive producer of Mad Men, Matthew Weiner takes viewers back in time to the ruthlessly competitive world of Madison Avenue advertising in the ’60s. Mad Men won the Golden Globe …

Director General Al Jazeera Al Jazeera began as a single news channel in 1996 serving the Arab world. Through the years it has grown to an Arabic-language bouquet that includes five sports channels, a documentary channel, two children’s channels, as …

Co-chairman & CEO Lionsgate   Any conversation with Jon Feltheimer, the co-chairman and CEO of Lionsgate, about his company will quickly come to the word “entrepreneurial.” He uses it often, with pride and satisfaction, to describe the approach that his …

October 2008 Brown Johnson has been credited with changing the preschool television landscape in the U.S. She was the driving force behind Nick Jr.’s “play to learn” philosophy and oversaw the development of Blue’s Clues, Dora the Explorer and a …

October 2008 Rich Ross joined Disney Channel in 1996 and has been the president of Disney Channels Worldwide since 2004. He built the successful Disney Channel Original Movie franchise, which includes the international smash hit High School Musical (HSM) and …

Twentieth Century Fox produces a constant flow of hit movies and TV series: The Simpsons, Family Guy, 24, Prison Break, Ice Age and Aliens, just to name a few. Elie Dekel recognizes that fans young and old form a strong …

This interview originally appeared in the MIPCOM 2008 issue of World Screen. Desperate Housewives premiered on ABC in October 2004. Several weeks later, Newsweek put the main characters on its cover and the show was officially a runaway hit with …