Profiles

Patrick Zuchowicki, general manager of Basic Lead, talks about the DISCOP Africa Virtual Market, which will be hosted as a long-form biannual event, specifically centered on Anglophone, Francophone and Lusophone Africa.

Bruce L. Paisner, the president and CEO of the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, talks about how in the pandemic world we all inhabit today, there is an almost Hollywood-like sense of uncertainty.

Part one of the APOS 2020 Virtual Series included insights from ViacomCBS’s Bob Bakish, Raine’s Joe Ravitch, Disney's Uday Shankar, Discovery’s JB Perrette, VICE’s Nancy Dubuc, Nine’s Hugh Marks, iQiyi’s Yang Xianghua and Viu’s Janice Lee, among many others.

SVOD platforms will have to work hard to retain the subs they gained amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a range of new studies.

A panel convened by the Edinburgh TV Festival saw Cathy Payne, Jens Richter, Louise Pedersen, Ruth Berry, David Cornwall and Jonathan Ford discussing the evolving role of the distributor and managing business amid the COVID-19 pandemic in conversation with Stewart Clarke.

A group of U.K. media companies and trade organizations—ITV, BBC, Sky, Channel 4, Channel 5, STV, ITN, the Association for Commercial Broadcasters and On-Demand Services (COBA) and Pact—have released some guidelines to help enable a return to production amid COVID-19.

World Screen recaps a range of studies about how COVID-19 is accelerating changes in media consumption.

After a rocky start with guests unable to check-in for hours due to a computer malfunction, NATPE wrapped in Miami yesterday following three days of panels focused on “every area of the business,” JP Bommel said in his closing press conference, and a slew of deals, especially in the scripted and format spaces.

The trio talks to World Screen about bringing the Wu-Tang Clan origin story to television.

World Screen looks back at the biggest stories in international media last year.