MUMBAI: Nelvana, leading international producers and distributors of children’s programming and products, have announced the appointment of consumer products industry veteran Nancy Fowler as senior VP, worldwide licensing.
Fowler will be reporting to Nelvana executive VP of business development Doug Murphy and will oversee licensing, marketing and creative services teams in her new role.
“Nelvana has an exceptional reputation within the global licensing industry,” said Fowler. “I’m genuinely proud to be joining the Nelvana team and contributing to the company’s growing consumer products business.”
Fowler brings more than 16 years of consumer products experience to Nelvana. Recently, as president of Worldwide Consumer Products for Burbank-based DIC Entertainment, Nancy oversaw the development of licensing programs for brands including Madeline, Trollz/The Original Trolls and the relaunch of American Greetings’ Strawberry Shortcake franchise, which has reached over $1 billion at retail. While at DIC, Fowler directed a team that managed more than 700 licensees worldwide, and successfully completed the company’s acquisition effort to obtain the global entertainment and licensing rights to McDonald’s brands.
Fowler has earlier served as vice president of Worldwide Licensing for Viacom Consumer Products, the licensing arm of Paramount Pictures Corporation, where she was responsible for a variety of entertainment brands, including Star Trek, South Park, Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Tomb Raider. Prior to her eight-year stint at Viacom, Fowler established the licensing division of Alliance Atlantis and was director of marketing for SEGA of Canada.
“Nelvana has made enormous strides these last three years, emerging as a world-class consumer products organization stewarding global brands such as Babar, Beyblade, Miss Spider and now The Backyardigans,” commented Doug Murphy, “We are delighted to welcome Nancy back to Canada and very excited to add her talent and experience to our licensing team.”
Nelvana has also announced several promotions in its licensing division. Mark Northwood, formerly VP of Licensing for North America, is now VP of licensing, the Americas. Previously manager,international licensing Lily Yan is upped to senior manager, international licensing. And former licensing coordinator Lisa Green has been promoted to account executive, licensing.
Nelvana’s is owned by Corus Entertainment, a Canadian-based media and entertainment company. Corus is a market leader in both specialty TV and Radio. The company’s other interests include music, television broadcasting and advertising services.
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Veteran licensing expert Nancy Fowler joins Nelvana
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Parul Shahi from Delhi is the winner of MTV Hero Honda Roadies-3
Takes on 2500 kilometers, tough tasks & beats 12 competitors to win the title
MUMABI: December 23nd 2005 – Parul Shahi, that’s her name. The winner of MTV Hero Honda Roadies-3, India’s biggest adventure reality show. And besides becoming the surprise package of a cult show that lends itself to countless discussion and debate, she’s just walked away with a Hero Honda Karizma and booty of close to Rs. 5 lakhs. What’s more, she’s clawed tooth and nail to earn it. Having beaten thousands of candidates to get on the show, traversing more than 2500 kilometres from Jaisalmer to Leh, surviving all the edgy tasks along the route and successfully eliminating 12 of her competitors on the show, we say she more than deserves it!
Parul’s first encounter MTV Roadies took place in 2004 when she auditioned for Roadies 2 and didn’t quite make it to the final bunch. But the grit of the girl shone through when she not only came back in 2005 to make it past the auditions, but also walked away with the final prize!
Excited on her win, Parul Says, “I feel on top of the world on being the MTV Roadie. It wasn’t easy but I knew that my grit and determination would see me through. Having won the title in my second try, I’d like to tell everyone that it’s the ‘never-say-die’ attitude that takes you through some of the biggest challenges in life.”
This petite Delhi-ite, a fan of Angelina Jolie’s character in Tomb Raider, says it was her determination and overall resilience that made her hang on till the very end. Of course, the fact that she seemed rather non-threatening to the others, also helped her case. Little did they know, she would come up from behind and run away with the big prize! When asked about how she plans to use her prize money, she’s prompt to mention that it’s all being utilised towards her post-graduation.
Roadies is not merely about a tough journey with fantastic sights, sounds and tasks; it is about managing competition, inter-personal relationships and group dynamics. When 13 diverse personalities, cut-off from their families, are thrown into a cauldron of fun, adventure and cutthroat competition; survival instincts cause the strangest of reactions. Which makes great reality television.
MTV Hero Honda Roadies 3, India’s only adventure reality show, flagged off from Jaisalmer where 13 young adventurers began the toughest ride of their lives working their way through Rajasthan, Delhi, Uttaranchal, Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh winding up in Leh. That’s 2500 kilometers in 39 days on India’s premium sports bike, the Hero Honda Karizma.
For all those who missed the action, here’s one more opportunity to catch it. Tune into MTV every Monday to Thursday at 7 pm sharp. And watch Parul as she steals the show…from the very beginning.
MTV Hero Honda Roadies 3, presented by Hero Honda Karizma, in association with Garnier Fructis, Haier Mobiles, Mountain Dew and Castrol Power 1, with Fastrack from Titan as Style Partner, Nestle Polo as Partner, Ground Partner- Pizza Hut, Broadband Partner- Sifymax and Radio Partner – 93.5 RED FM
About MTV India
MTV, India’s leading multimedia youth platform, caters to the interests and passions of 15-34 year olds, offering them an exciting mix of music and non-music programming (Bollywood, adventure, humor, fashion & style and fiction), presented in its inimitable style by Indian VJs. Since its launch in 1996, the channel has won numerous awards at domestic as well as International level for its unique humor and unmatched creativity. Known for its unique properties (MTV Immies, MTV Music Summit for AIDS, Style Awards, MTV Youth Marketing Forum, MTV VJ Hunt, MTV Youth Icon and MTV Roadies among others), the channel has today become a preferred destination for advertisers to reach out to Indian youth. With over 5,00,000 hyperactive users www.mtvindia.com continues to be the most popular youth hangout online. The channel today reached out to 25.75 million households in India. MTV India is a part of the MTV Networks, world’s largest television network reaching out to 442.9 million households across 167 territories. For the 5th consecutive year, MTV was named The World’s Most Valuable Media Brand by Business Week & Interbrand’s 2004 World’s Most Valuable Brands Study. -
SET Pictures gets shot in arm with Oscar nomination for ‘Lagaan’
Sony Entertainment Television Pictures, which had bought the overseas distribution rights of Lagaan, can look forward to a boost in earnings with the Oscar nominations announced on Tuesday.
Lagaan has been nominated in the best foreign film category, and Sony and Columbia Tristar are set to reap the benefits of an Academy award nomination, which has come India’s way after a long time. Cashing in on the nomination, Columbia Pictures, the distribution arm of Sony Pictures Entertainment, has been roped in to handle the global re-release of the Aamir Khan starrer, this time in overseas territories where even white viewers dominate. The film, released on 15 June 2001, was initially distributed by Sony Entertainment Television Pictures only in countries with a sizeable Indian population.
The first venture of Sony Entertainment Television Pictures, a division of SET, was Mission Kashmir, released worldwide in a record breaking number of cinemas (at that time) around the world in December 2000 and was featured in the all time Top 20 overseas Bollywood grossers.
Lagaan is a saga of triumph of hope over power, set against the backdrop of the British Raj. In its first weekend itself, the critically-acclaimed Lagaan entered the American charts (crowded with summer mega-movies like Tomb Raider, Shrek and Pearl Harbor) at an impressive number 15.
Ironically, the Indian channel that reaps the benefits of an increased Indian interest in the Oscars award ceremony on 25 March will be Star Movies, which will be telecasting the function live.
Meanwhile, Viacom’s Nickelodeon has won a nomination for Best animated feature film of the year with Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. Jimmy is Nickelodeon’s first 3-D, computer graphics imagery (CGI) animated character. This is the first time the channel has developed a product that covers the idiot box, the big screen and the online component simultaneously. The TV series and the film are likely to make an Asia premiere soon.