Mansha Daswani

1 week ago | worldscreen.com | Mansha Daswani

Nine has announced a new leadership team as it restructures its streaming and broadcasting operations under Amanda Laing, managing director. Working across free and subscription broadcast and streaming products, Michael Healy has been tapped as executive director of entertainment and Cailah Scobie is now executive director of entertainment content acquisitions. Nine has also tapped Fiona Dear as executive director of news and current affairs, and all sports will sit under Brent Williams.

1 week ago | worldscreen.com | Mansha Daswani

Founded by reality TV icon Paris Hilton and Bruce Gersh, 11:11 Media is taking a next-generation approach to scaling its content production efforts, which run the gamut from digital-first series to immersive docs and more, its chief storyteller, Bruce Robertson, told TV Real Festival delegates today. "Paris has always had this innate understanding of pop culture," Robertson said in his keynote, which you can view here. "She's been one step ahead in so many different ways.

1 week ago | worldscreen.com | Mansha Daswani

Fox Corporation has acquired the Mexican sports broadcasting platform Caliente TV and tapped Carlos Martinez to oversee its Latin American business. Martinez has been appointed executive VP and managing director for Latin America at Fox Corporation, with oversight for the FOX broadcast strategy in Latin America, the transition of Caliente TV in Mexico and the channel's launch in Central America.

1 week ago | worldscreen.com | Mansha Daswani

Oobah Butler is returning to Channel 4 with two brand-new documentaries: How I Made a Million in 90 Days and How to Trick Your Way onto the Property Ladder. Both films from the doc filmmaker and writer are being made by Expectation. "They're both big subjects that are pretty much unignorable at this moment in time: our increasing obsession with get rich quick and the super wealthy, and the housing crisis in the U.K.," Butler said.

1 week ago | worldscreen.com | Mansha Daswani

After first launching Documentary Channel as a cable network, Tom Neff is now resurrecting the brand as a streaming destination for indie docs, he told viewers of the TV Real Festival today. Neff is president and co-founder of Documentary Channel, which first launched as a pay-TV channel and has now been resurrected as a streaming home for independent documentaries. You can watch Neff's keynote session here. "We want to be a home to the independent documentary filmmaker.