World Screen

LONDON: NBCUniversal International Television has appointed Bruce Mitchell as the VP of digital for its channels division. Mitchell will be based in London and will work across all NBCU pay-TV brands around the world. He will collaborate with the in-territory digital teams. Mitchell’s remit also includes leadership for the L.A.-based international …

LONDON: Roger Mosey, who has been leading the BBC’s London 2012 Olympics efforts, has been appointed acting director of BBC Vision, taking over for George Entwistle, who’s becoming the director-general of the BBC.  Mark Thompson, BBC director-general, announced the appointment in an email to BBC. "As you know, on Monday, September 17 …

SYDNEY: Beyond Distribution has sold more than 140 hours of programming in Central and Eastern Europe. In Poland, TVN picked up Science Impossible and World’s Weirdest Restaurants. Planete+ ordered Programmed to be Fat and Charlotte: A Life Without Limbs. The network also renewed Sperm Wars and Jetstream. For the Czech …

LONDON: The lineup of speakers for this year’s RTS Digital World Conference is headlined by Anne Sweeney, co-chair of Disney Media Networks and president of Disney/ABC Television Group, and Gary Zenkel, the president of NBC Olympics. The day-long conference, sponsored by BBC Worldwide, is titled When Worlds Collide: Beyond the Digital …

LONDON: Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the James Bond franchise, BSkyB is launching Sky Movies 007 HD, which will feature all 22 films in the collection. The channel launches this October for Sky Movies TV and Sky Go subscribers, as well as on NOW TV. The move follows the recent acquisition …

MUNICH: Global Screen has secured a deal with U.S. distributor Music Box Films for the horror comedy Eddie: The Sleepwalking Cannibal as well as the crime thriller The Silence. The U.S. indie distributor picked up Eddie, a Canadian-Danish production written and directed by Boris Rodriguez. Thure Lindhardt (Keep the Lights …

AMSTERDAM: FOX International Channels (FIC) has purchased a 51-percent stake in Eredivisie Media & Marketing (EMM), which is backed by the Dutch Premier League (Eredivisie) football clubs and Endemol. EMM handles the corporate media and sponsorship rights for Eredivisie and also controls the football channel Eredivisie Live. In the Netherlands, …

LONDON: BSkyB has won an appeal against Ofcom’s previous regulatory ruling that forced it to reduce the price for its main sports channels to competitors. The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) ruled that the regulator’s concerns over the way Sky’s sports channels were being sold were "unfounded." The spat started in …

DÜESSELDORF: The Higher Regional Court of Düesseldorf has ruled against ProSiebenSat.1 and RTL’s plan to launch an online video platform, upholding a previous verdict by the German antitrust authority. The Federal Cartel Office ruled in March 2011 against the two companies jointly launching an online video platform, saying that the …

PARIS: Robert Kyncl, the global head of content at Google/YouTube, has been tapped to deliver a Media Mastermind keynote on Monday, October 8, at MIPCOM. Kyncl will be discussing the future of media, entertainment and video content. He will look at the ways in which online content pushes traditional boundaries …