World Screen

LONDON: BabyTV, part of the FOX International Channels portfolio, has secured carriage for its HD feed on SingTel’s mioTV platform in Singapore. The 24-hour network for toddlers will be included in SingTel’s mio TV’s Family + Pack, with language options in English and Chinese. BabyTV HD is already carried on StarHub, and …

HONG KONG: FOX International Channels (FIC) is rebranding the STAR Chinese Movies 2 channel as SCM Legend. SCM Legend will spotlight the golden era of Hong Kong cinema. It will complement the SCM (STAR Chinese Movies) channel. SCM Legend will feature content from the 1970s to the 1990s from studios …

CANNES: The Malaysian contingent at MIPCOM, led by Sri Kamaruddin Siaraf, Secretary General of the country’s Ministry of Information, Communications and Culture, will be offering 200 new shows to the international market. The National Film Development Corporation Malaysia (FINAS) pavilion will house 40 Malaysian content companies working across a range …

KUALA LUMPUR: ESPN STAR Sports has brought the 24-hour FOX Football Channel to Malaysia through Telekom Malaysia’s IPTV service HyppTV. The channel features more than 500 league matches from a range of football leagues. The service broadcasts a mix of live matches, highlights, magazine shows and football news and updates. Coverage …

CANNES: FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) has penned deals with two multi-territory broadcasters in the Asia Pacific for the drama Wedding Band. Sony picked up the show for its viewers in East Asia. Viacom18 is bringing the series into India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives. With these two …

CANNES: The Malaysian delegation at MIPCOM, led by FINAS, has announced a variety of deals, valued at $30 million, including a co-production pact for Animasia Studio’s Supa Strikas and an alliance between Hasbro Studios and Vision Animation for Transformers: Rescue Bots. Sri Kamaruddin Siaraf, Secretary General of the Ministry of …

SINGAPORE: SingTel has secured the rights for all 380 Barclays Premier League matches for the next three seasons starting August 2013 on a non-exclusive basis. The matches will continue to be available online on miostadium.com as well as on mobile through SingTel’s BPL app. Allen Lew, the country chief officer for …

CANNES/MUNICH: FOX International Channels has taken on the rights to the U.S. version of the cooking competition show The Taste, which will air on FOX Traveller in India in 2013.  In the U.S., ABC has placed an order for eight episodes. The show stars famous food personalities Nigella Lawson and …

NEW YORK: YOU On Demand has secured the VOD rights in China for a range of current, library and upcoming feature films from NBCUniversal International Television Distribution. The offerings will be available to subscribers of YOU On Demand’s TVOD and SVOD platforms. Through the agreement, customers gain access to movies …

HONG KONG: The speaker lineup for this year’s CASBAA Convention, taking place October 29 to November 1 in Hong Kong, includes Turner’s Gerhard Zeiler, FOXTEL’s Richard Freudenstein, Astro’s Rohana Rozhan and Tata Sky’s Harit Nagpal. "The Convention continues to attract the most respected and influential speakers from the multichannel TV industry, solidifying …