World Screen

  This article originally appeared in the MIPCOM 2012 issue of TV Europe.   Turkish television is booming. Inside the country, broadcasters are enjoying significant advertising growth, while outside, the appetite for Turkish-made drama seems to be getting bigger. With a new regulatory regime coming into effect, foreign players might …

LONDON: The U.K. is leading Europe in the adoption of both standalone OTT services as well as operator-owned multiscreen services, according to ABI Research. OTT penetration in the U.K. is expected to exceed 75 percent by 2017. For the same period, operator-owned TV everywhere services are forecast to reach 52-percent penetration. More than …

LONDON: Production has started in the U.K. on a new comedy series co-written and co-created by Christopher Guest (Best in Show, This is Spinal Tap) for BBC Two and HBO. Guest’s co-creator on the show is Jim Piddock (Best in Show, Too Much Sun, Independence Day). Guest and Piddock are executive …

BARCELONA/LONDON: The Walt Disney Company Spain & Portugal has struck up a partnership with Wuaki.tv to launch Disney Movies on Demand in Spain. The service will offer Wuaki.tv’s customers a selection of Disney and Disney/Pixar movies, which can be viewed any time on an on-demand basis. The selection includes such …

LONDON: Power has sold 200 hours of TV movies, series and mini-series to Chello Central Europe. The multiplatform, multi-territory agreement includes basic cable, SVOD and TVOD rights for Chello Central Europe’s Film Mania and Film Café channels in Hungary and Film Café in Romania. Titles involved in the deal include Doctor Zhivago, …

PREMIUM: Public broadcasters do well on Tuesday evenings in the biggest markets of continental Western Europe, as ratings results from November 20 proved this week. In Germany, Italy and Spain the biggest audiences were for programs on state-owned broadcasters. Tuesday in Germany belongs to ARD 1. It won the day …

LONDON: The U.K.’s Culture Secretary has renewed the licenses of Channel 3 and Channel 5 for another ten years, the latter of which has made a commitment to expand its amount of homegrown children’s content. At the request of the Culture Secretary, Northern & Shell has pledged that Channel 5 …

LONDON: BBC Four has continued to bulk up its comedy slate, which now includes the hit U.S. series Parks and Recreation, along with adding to its arts, science and drama lineups. Alongside Parks and Recreation, the BBC Four comedy roster includes An Innocent Abroad, set in the summer of 1941 and looking …

SINGAPORE: In 2011, Asia represented nearly 60 percent of the sales at Novovision, which is being rebranded from Novavision, and this year is more or less on the same path. “So, you can imagine how important this part of the world is for Novovision’s business,” says François-Xavier Poirier, the company’s …

LONDON: ITV Studios Global Entertainment and Svensk Filmindustri (SF) have signed a multi-year SVOD deal that provides crime dramas such as Lewis and Inspector Morse to C More subscribers in the Nordic region. The London-based outfit will deliver a number of its crime dramas for SF’s branded section of the Scandinavian …