World Screen

LONDON: ESPN and Budweiser are working together on content and advertising surrounding this season’s FA Cup. The two worked together on last season’s coverage, but this agreement includes several new elements. Notably will be the social media integration. Fans watching or accessing any of the multiplatform content surrounding the FA Cup will …

UNTERFÖHRING: The complete offering of Sky Deutschland, including Bundesliga coverage, is being made available through Deutsche Telekom for its Entertainment IPTV customers. Starting in mid-2013, in addition to live Bundesliga coverage, Entertainment customers will gain access to the range of Sky’s content, including UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, DFB-Pokal, Golf …

LONDON: Rory Aitken, Ben Pugh, Josh Varney and Kate Buckley have set up 42, a new U.K.-based management and production company that will focus on film and television. The company already has a number of actors, writers and directors to represent. This includes the actors Michael Caine, John Hurt, Rhys …

BRISTOL: Thanks to a three-year deal extension with World Snooker, the BBC will continue to air important domestic snooker tournaments until at least 2017. The BBC will still serve as the host broadcaster of The World Championship, the UK Championship and the Masters until the 2016/17 season is over. Those …

PREMIUM: Herbert Kloiber, the chairman and shareholder in Tele München Group (TMG) who is being honored with a Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Award at NATPE this year, talks to World Screen about his company—past, present and future—and the value he places on relationships. WS: Are you looking to expand TMG’s distribution catalogue? …

LONDON: CAKE and GunHil have signed an international development and distribution deal for Space Stallions, an animated adult parody of ’80s sci-fi cartoons. Targeted at 18- to 48-year-olds, Space Stallions was presented by GunHil at Cartoon Forum in September. The show was previously released on YouTube, where it has already …

LONDON: Angela Neillis has been hired as the first head of acquisitions for Sky Vision—a new distribution company formed by BSkyB and Parthenon Media Group—which is looking to acquire drama and comedy programming. Prior to her appointment at Sky Vision, Neillis was a commercial manager at BBC Worldwide, where she …

PREMIUM: Half of the Top 100 programs in the ratings on French television in 2012 were episodes of American dramatic series. A handful of Hollywood shows, led by The Mentalist, took 48 of the top 100 largest audiences of the year. Only two episodes of French fiction series appear in the …

PARIS: Tim Hincks, the president of Endemol, has been lined up for a keynote speech as part of MIPTV’s Media Mastermind series. In his speech, set for Monday, April 8, Hincks will touch on how creativity is affected by the changes taking place in the industry. Hincks, who has been …

PARIS: Orange Cinéma Series (OCS) has renewed its content agreement with HBO, giving it exclusive rights to shows such as Girls and Game of Thrones for France. The deal, which has been in place since 2008, allows Orange to carry HBO programs on its Orange Cinema Series (OCS) package, which …