World Screen

LONDON/BURBANK: Warner Bros. Television Group (WBTVG) and Warner Bros. UK are rebranding Shed Media Group as Warner Bros. Television Productions UK, which will be led by Nick Emmerson and Claire Hungate. The move follows its acquisition of 100 percent of the outstanding shares of Shed Media Group. Emmerson and Hungate …

As the commercial arm of ZDF, the German public broadcaster, ZDF Enterprises (ZDFE) does much more than sell a broad range of programs from the world’s largest German-language library. Besides distributing homegrown series, miniseries, TV movies, documentaries and children’s shows, ZDFE is charged with setting up international co-productions, representing third-party …

LONDON: Tony Hall, the BBC's director-general, has set out ambitious new plans to address the on- and off-screen representation of the black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) community at the BBC, including commissioning funding and training. Hall is launching his own senior leadership development program for six individuals from BAME …

PRAGUE: The focus for SPI International at NATPE Europe is on content acquisitions for its various channels, including FilmBox Arthouse. “While looking for content, we are also conducting sales, offering our rich catalogue of movies and TV series to the local pay- and free-TV networks throughout CEE,” says Berk Uziyel, …

PRAGUE: NATPE Europe has planned a special "Celebration of Polish TV Programming" event to take place this Wednesday in Prague, announcing as the guest of honor the director and scriptwriter Agnieszka Holland. On Wednesday at 12:30 p.m., the Cloud 9 Sky Bar and Lounge at the Hilton Prague Hotel will …

LONDON: UKTV is launching its first non-linear brand, UKTV Play, which will feature advanced previews of original commissions and acquisitions as well as box sets of hit shows from across its channel bouquet. UKTV Play will get a soft launch on iOS this summer; PC and YouView will follow by …

This article originally appeared in the NATPE Europe 2014 issue of TV Europe. Drama producers and distributors are tapping into tax breaks and other production incentives across Europe.    The globalization of television production has been a steadily growing phenomenon. The genie is out of the bottle. Hollywood is no longer …

TORONTO: Breakthrough Entertainment has placed the movie Cas & Dylan, which stars Richard Dreyfuss, with HBO Europe. The HBO Europe deal is one of several agreements that Breakthrough shored up in Eastern Europe recently. It also licensed Boundless to Travel HD in Russia and Crime Stories to Telewizja Puls in …

PRAGUE: This morning in Prague, Rola Bauer, president and partner at Tandem Communications, was joined on stage at NATPE Europe by a number of executives from across the international production community to discuss the region's value in the co-production landscape. The title of the summit was Now, the Story Starts …

LONDON: Diane Coyle, acting chairman of the BBC Trust, outlined four "immediate priorities" for the public broadcaster in a speech yesterday, among them calling for an improvement in "the quality, variety and originality of new drama on BBC One." Coyle began her address by talking about the reach of the …