World Screen

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Warner Bros.’s Bruce Rosenblum and Electus’ Ben Silverman have been added to the speaker lineup of this year’s NAB Show, taking place in Las Vegas from April 14 to 19. Rosenblum, the president of Warner Bros. Television Group and newly sworn in chairman and CEO of the Academy …

NEW ORLEANS: At the recent BBC Showcase Syndication event, BBC Worldwide sold more than 260 hours of programming, including History of Science, to public broadcast stations across the U.S. History of Science shows how the political upheavals of history combine with iconic inventions and discoveries as well as the ideas of …

BURBANK: Bellum Entertainment has taken on distribution for the ITV Studios America and Raycom Media daily newsmagazine show America Now. Bellem Entertainment, led by Mary Carole McDonnell, has hired Boots Walker as the VP of sales. She and Boyd McDonnell, the VP of programming, will lead the team of five …

LOS ANGELES: Rive Gauche Television has promoted Tomas Silva to VP of international sales. Silva joined Rive Gauche in 2008 as international sales executive, heading the company’s distribution entry into Latin America. He has worked for the Buenos Aires-based Dinter Television, where he represented TV Globo for Argentina, Uruguay and …

CULVER CITY: Sony Pictures Entertainment’s multiplatform online entertainment network Crackle is to add the anime channel Animax to its lineup for U.S. and Canadian viewers. The Animax channel will be available via the Crackle site as well as on tablets, mobile and OTT devices. New episodes and/or series will launch …

LOS ANGELES: AEG, Ryan Seacrest Media and Creative Artists Agency (CAA) have established a joint venture to rebrand Mark Cuban’s HDNet as AXS TV. The channel, slated for this summer, will feature live entertainment and lifestyle programming. AEG’s presence in live events and affiliation with venues worldwide will bring viewers …

LOS ANGELES: News Corp.’s Jonathan Miller and Ross Levinsohn of Yahoo! will kick off the opening morning keynote event at NATPE, which has also added sessions with Lionsgate’s Jon Feltheimer and Televisa’s Emilio Azcarraga. Miller is the chief digital officer at News Corp. and is the chairman and CEO of the …

NEW YORK: Syfy has greenlit a two-hour pilot for the action thriller Rewind from BermanBraun and Universal Cable Productions. Rewind features a team of military field operatives and civilian scientists who must use untested technology to travel back in time to alter past events in order to change the future …

NEW YORK: U.S. TV ad spending is expected to remain largely unaffected by the growth of online this year, according to new estimates from eMarketer, which predicts total media ad spending to increase 6.7 percent in 2012 to $169.5 billion.  U.S. online ad spending is forecast to grow 23.3 percent …

LOS ANGELES: The hit anthology series Femme Fatales is set to return to Cinemax for a second season in 2012 with 13 all-new episodes, which Entertainment One (eOne) will be offering to international territories at NATPE. eOne handles distribution outside the U.S. for the series, which features modern noir and …