Interviews

October 2006 By Anna Carugati Steven Spielberg is arguably Hollywood’s best-known director and producer and certainly its most commercially successful filmmaker. Who hasn’t been touched or thrilled by any one of his movies? The list is endless: Jaws, Close Encounters …

October 2006 By Anna Carugati Every day there seems to be a new way to access entertainment, sports and news content—on our computers, iPods, mobile phones—and who knows how many more devices and platforms there will be in one year, …

October 2006 By Anna Carugati Interviewing Richard Parsons has been a particular pleasure for us. His office is located in the Time Warner building, one of the most celebrated structures recently built in Manhattan, overlooking Central Park. In our two …

June 2006 By Anna Carugati When Ronald Lauder founded Central European Media Enterprises (CME) in 1994, he believed that people living in former Soviet block countries, who had known nothing but state-run television, were ready for TV stations that offered …

May 2006 By Anna Carugati One of the big stories in the children’s television business this year is the three-hour Saturday morning block that DIC Entertainment will be programming on CBS starting in September. CBS’s Saturday Morning Secret Slumber Party …

October 2006 By Anna Carugati After gaining extensive experience managing channels for ESPN, BSkyB and Nickelodeon, Ross Hair joined Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) in 2001. Today, as the senior VP of international networks in Europe, Hair’s main responsibility is …

October 2006 By Mansha Daswani The Taiwanese government is looking to radically transform the local media sector, which remains one of the most fragmented television markets in the region. Earlier this year, the government initiated the merger of two public-broadcasting …

October 2006 By Anna Carugati Cosgrove Hall Films is the Manchester-based animation studio that brought to life such beloved children’s shows as Postman Pat, Fifi and the Flowertots and Little Robots. While the studio specialized in high-quality animation, it mainly …

October 2006 By Mansha Daswani Last year, a little independent movie about race relations in Los Angeles became a sleeper box-office success and then went on to win the Academy Award for best picture. Crash was a labor of love …

As president of Warner Bros. Television, Peter Roth oversees the studio that has produced Friends, ER, The West Wing, Nip/Tuck, Cold Case, Without a Trace and many more. In these shows, as in all the shows Warner Bros. produces, Roth’s …