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LONDON: Bedlam Productions, the producer behind the Oscar-nominated movie The King’s Speech, has appointed LillaVision to represent its slate of non-scripted and scripted TV projects. Bedlam Productions is led by Simon Breen, Simon Egan and Gareth Unwin. The London-based indie …

NEW YORK: Elizabeth Guider, most recently the editor of The Hollywood Reporter, is set to begin contributing feature articles to World Screen. Guider was editor of The Hollywood Reporter for three years, following 18 years at Variety. The veteran journalist …

OTTAWA: CBC/Radio-Canada has unveiled a five-year strategy for what viewers can expect from the public broadcaster, under the banner "Everyone, Every way." “We want to be recognized by Canadians as the leader in expressing Canadian culture and enriching democracy on …

WASHINGTON D.C.: BBC Worldwide America has struck a development deal with Canada’s Temple Street Productions, with both companies focused on jointly developing and investing in factual-entertainment series for the U.S. market. Two projects are already in development. The first explores …

LONDON: British satellite platform Sky has signed up 70,000 customers for its 3D offering, which launched in October 2010. "3D has got off to a great start with around 70,000 customers having signed up to the service in the first few …

  NEW YORK: The Kratt brothers, Chris and Martin Kratt, talk about children’s love for wildlife and how their new series Wild Kratts serves kids’ curiosity. Real-life zoologists turned "creature adventurers" Chris and Martin Kratt are best known, more simply, …

BURBANK: The dramas Switched at Birth and The Nine Lives of Chloe King and the comedy The Great State of Georgia are the newest original series to join ABC Family. The one-hour scripted drama Switched at Birth tells the story …

STOCKHOLM: TV3 and the premium sports channels Viasat Fotboll and Viasat Motor are set to a launch their HD versions on March 10 in Sweden. TV3 HD offers programs such as The Mentalist and Navy NCIS in high definition for …

LONDON: AOL Europe has purchased the video distribution network goviral for $74.1 million. goviral distributes branded video content across the Internet for a number of brands, media agencies, creative agencies and content producers. The company retains its offices in the …

NEW YORK: Deloitte’s new State of the Media Democracy survey reports that 71 percent of Americans rate watching TV on any device among their favorite media activities, while live TV in the home is still the most common method for accessing …