Mansha Daswani

Central and Western District

Editor and Associate Publisher at World Screen

editor @worldscreen, hong kong native, manhattan resident, TV junkie. Views are my own.

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Bluey Producer Preps New Animated Sitcom

1 day ago | worldscreen.com | Mansha Daswani

Ludo Studio, the Australian studio that makes the megahit Bluey, is working with Mad Ones Films on the development of Samuel Leighton-Dore's animated sitcom Willy. Co-created Leighton-Dore and his husband, Bradley Tennant, the proof-of-concept for the series features the voice talent of Judith Lucy, Reuben Kay, Danielle Walker and Anne Edmonds.
FUEL TV Rolls Out New Action Sports Channels

1 day ago | worldscreen.com | Mansha Daswani

FUEL TV is launching four new streaming channels based on classic print magazines geared toward action sports fans. The company is rolling out SURFERTV, POWDERTV, SKATEboardingTV and BIKEMAGTV, based on the magazines SURFER, POWDER, Transworld SKATEboarding and BIKEMAG.
Fubo Expands Sports Slate with PPV Options

1 day ago | worldscreen.com | Mansha Daswani

Fubo has bolstered its live sports streaming options with a slate of new pay-per-view soccer and boxing events. The pay-per-view options will be accessible to Fubo subscribers as well as those without a subscription. Events in June include the CONCACAF World Cup 2026 qualifying matches on June 7 and June 10, through a partnership with Integrated Sports Media, priced at $29.95 each.
Nippon TV's Golden SixTONES Set for Global Netflix Rollout

1 day ago | worldscreen.com | Mansha Daswani

Golden SixTONES, a new entertainment show from Nippon TV featuring the Japanese boy band, will be available on Netflix internationally on a catch-up basis. On the platform beginning today, the launch marks the first time that a regular weekly entertainment show from the Japanese media group will be distributed on Netflix. The Sunday night weekly series launched in April, featuring the band members and a range of guests in a studio setting. In Japan, it has been streaming on Hulu and TVer.
CANAL+ & Netflix Expand Pact to Africa

1 day ago | worldscreen.com | Mansha Daswani

CANAL+ and Netflix have expanded their partnership to include sub-Saharan Africa after first aligning in 2019 in France and Poland. CANAL+ will become the first operator to distribute Netflix as part of its offerings across 24 sub-Saharan African countries. The expanded alliance kicks off next month. Its Netflix's first partnership of its kind in the region.
Prime Video UK & Firecrest Films Team for True-Crime Docs

1 day ago | worldscreen.com | Mansha Daswani

Firecrest Films is making six true-crime documentaries for Prime Video in the U.K. and Ireland. The first to stream will be The Orkney Assassin: Murder in the Isles, landing on the platform this weekend, which tells the story of the 1994 murder of a waiter in an Indian restaurant in the remote Orkney Islands.
Entrevista con Markus Schäfer de ZDF Studios

1 day ago | tvlatina.tv | Mansha Daswani

Desde el lanzamiento de una oferta de canales FAST hasta la promoción de modelos innovadores de coproducción en varios países, ZDF Studios está implementando diversas estrategias para enfrentar la realidad de la economía de contenidos en la era posterior a la guerra del streaming. Tal como Markus Schäfer, presidente y CEO de ZDF Studios, comenta a TV Latina, el panorama sigue siendo desafiante, pero hay señales de optimismo para el resto de 2025 y 2026.
Mr. Men Little Miss Series Lands on YouTube

1 day ago | worldscreen.com | Mansha Daswani

A new animated series featuring characters from the 1970s Mr. Men Little Miss books by Roger and Adam Hargreaves has arrived on YouTube. Mr. Men Little Miss Mini Adventures, a collaboration between Maga Animation Studio and Sanrio, consists of 12 2.5-minute episodes. It is available on the official YouTube channel of the same name. The series was written and directed by Francesca Pietrobelli and Eleonora Di Nardo. "Working on this series has been a true creative journey," said Pietrobelli.
Trend-Watching with Dubit - TVKIDS

2 days ago | worldscreen.com | Mansha Daswani

The conference portion of the TV Kids Summer Festival wrapped today with Dubit CEO Ian Douthwaite and team members Laura Dudley-Gough and Benjamin Sumner revealing new research on kids' media habits and tips for how IP owners can explore opportunities in gaming. The session, featuring new intelligence from the youth research and digital development studio on how kids are engaging with content and gaming, can be viewed here.
wedotv Expands Asian Footprint

2 days ago | worldscreen.com | Mansha Daswani

Global streaming network wedotv has reached a distribution deal with Malaysian platform sooka for four FAST channels. The pact includes carriage wedotv movies, wedotv BIG stories, wedotv sports and wedotv amor. This is wedotv's second Asian deal following a pact with Dens.tv in Indonesia. "This partnership with sooka represents a significant milestone in our Southeast Asian expansion strategy," said Philipp Rotermund, co-CEO of wedotv.