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Cartoon Network Asia making first international shows

The Asian division of Cartoon Network is making two original shows for its channels in the region and for worldwide distribution. The Turner-owned kids channel has greenlit Exchange Student Zero and Monster Beach (pictured). Exchange Student Zero will be a 13x22mins series about two boys who bring Hiro, an anime character from a fantasy card […]

Cartoon Network Asia launches second screen app

Turner’s Cartoon Network has launched an app for kids in Asia. The mobile second screen app, CN Watch and Play, allows viewers to Cartoon Network series and play games from the channel’s website simultaneously. Users must be authenticated pay TV customers. As well as the second screen element it also allows viewers to stream Cartoon […]

Turner says global restructure won’t impact Lat-Am

The wholesale management changes and job losses seen at Turner’s operations in the EMEA and Asia Pacific regions will not spread to its business in Latin America. Following international president (pictured) Gerhard Zeiler’s restructure of the international business and several senior management changes, including the departure of Steve Marcopoto, announced yesterday, there has been speculation […]

Turner focuses on Asian partnerships following cuts

Turner has inked a new carriage deal for its kids channel Boomerang, taking it into 11 million homes in Thailand. The broadcaster has formed a new joint venture to run the channel and said it will be forming a range of new partnerships in the region. The new JV and channel launch news comes against […]

Turner poaches Disney’s Patricia Hidalgo

Turner has hired Patricia Hidalgo as its chief content officer, EMEA, filling a role vacated by Michael Carrington earlier this year. Hidalgo joins from Disney where she was VP, content and programming strategy. Hidalgo is the second senior executive to swap Disney for Turner in recent months after Giorgio Stock joined the Time Warner-backed company […]

Turner streamlines L+M team amid wider cost cuts

Turner has streamlined its Turner CN Enterprises licensing and merchandising divison as the company continues a wide-ranging restructure under the leadership of Gerhard Zeiler. The new-look TCNE will be run by vice president Alan Fenwick. Several internal appointments have been made with Maria Rosaria Milone, senior commercial director, leading a new sales team and responsible […]

Spielberg, Stallone attached to TNT, TBS projects

Steven Spielberg, Dick Wolf and Sylvester Stallone are among the talent producing new programmes for Turner-owned US cable entertainment channels TBS and TNT. Spielberg is attached to Portal House, a scripted series about a group of young scientists who stumble upon a portal into the space-time continuum; and Peter Gunn, a re-telling of Blake Edwards […]

Content and Co. launching on-demand programming service Cirkus

Content and Co., the UK-based consultancy run by TV industry veterans Mark Bradford and Hugh Williams, is launching a new on-demand service for pay TV operators called Cirkus, TBI has learned. The subscription video-on-demand service will aggregate content from UK producers and distributors including BBC Worldwide and All3Media International and will launch with a partner […]

Oprah net takes on Tyler Perry sitcom

Oprah Winfrey’s cable network has ordered a new season For Better or Worse, the Tyler Perry sitcom. OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network has also picked up the first two seasons of the show, which originally went out on Turner’s TBS. The original cast of the series, basic cable’s best rated programme among African-Americans, will return for […]

New Belgian pay TV service launches with raft of intn’l channels

Dutch telco KPN has launched a new pay TVservice in Belgium, Snow. The service will combine TV, internet and telephony in a bundled offering, competing with existing providers Telenet and Belgacom. The Snow service will be marketed separately from KPN Belgium’s existing mobile telecom offering in the country, Base. The service offers 33 channels including […]