World Screen

STOCKHOLM: Modern Times Group’s Viasat Broadcasting is launching three new HD pay-TV movie channels in Russia, Ukraine and other CIS countries in October. The premium tier channel TV1000 Premium HD will feature first-run premieres of award-winning films from Hollywood studios and local independent distributors. TV1000 Megahit HD programs first-run premieres of …

LONDON/BURBANK: Sky has scored the distribution of Warner Bros. movies across a range of platforms and the two are planning to work together more closely on the release and marketing of the studio’s films across the U.K. and Ireland. The pact covers the first subscription pay-TV and pay-per-view windows. This allows …

PREMIUM: Guillaume de Posch and Anke Schäferkordt, the co-CEOs of the RTL Group, talk to World Screen about how they are working in concert to shape the future of the company and position it to succeed in the digital age.   WS: What has been your overall strategy since taking …

LONDON: Ofcom has ruled that Sky is a "fit and proper" license holder, but declares that James Murdoch "repeatedly fell short of the conduct to be expected of him." Of James Murdoch, Ofcom said: "his failure to initiate action on his own account on a number of occasions" was both …

LONDON: Jeremy Fox, the CEO of DRG, is leaving the company, which has made two new senior-level appointments in the wake of his departure. Jonathan Jackson, currently the COO, becomes group managing director. Jackson has been with the company for the last five years. He will now lead the business, …

STOCKHOLM: NonStop Entertainment has awarded the exclusive pay-TV rights for its titles to C More for the Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and Finnish markets. Among the first NonStop titles to have their pay-TV and SVOD premiere with C More are Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom, David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis as well as Beasts of the …

PREMIUM: Andrew Davies talks to TV Europe about his approach to telling the story of retail magnate Harry Gordon Selfridge in late-19th- and early-20th-century London with his latest project, Mr Selfridge, which ITV Studios Global Entertainment is distributing worldwide. TV EUROPE: How did Mr Selfridge come about? DAVIES: Kate Lewis, who …

PARIS: Twentieth Century Fox’s Marion Edwards, BSkyB’s Sophie Turner Laing and Russia Today‘s Margarita Simonyan are joining A+E Networks’ Nancy Dubuc on the panel at MIPCOM’s Women in Global Entertainment Power Lunch. Dubuc, the president of entertainment and media at A+E Networks, is joined by Edwards, the president of Twentieth Century …

LONDON: The Secret Dude Society, a tentatively-titled sitcom, has been ordered by BBC Three from Zodiak Media’s The Comedy Unit. The 6×30-minute studio show will be written and performed by Pappy’s, a popular U.K. comedy trio made up of Tom Parry, Matthew Crosby and Ben Clark. Filming will commence in 2013 at …

LONDON: UKTV’s Dave is bringing the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series to British television for the first time ever, airing seven half-hour competitions this fall. Dave has also re-ordered the freestyle motocross series Red Bull X-Fighters for a fifth season. UMTV, which has been producing Red Bull X-Fighters for …