MUMBAI: Television format creator and distributor Endemol has announced that the management board, comprising CEO Just Spee and President Tim Hincks, has appointed a new Management Committee to focus on overseeing and supporting the business on a day-to-day basis.

Martha Brass, formerly MD of international operations, joins the Management Committee as the Group?s COO. Brass will continue to oversee emerging markets whilst taking operational responsibility for additional territories including Scandinavia and Central and Eastern Europe.

Edwin van Es, formerly Group finance director, joins the management committee as CFO, overseeing all the Group?s finance activities including controlling, accounting, tax and treasury.

Global Head of Legal and Corporate Secretary Boudewijn Beusmans will also join the new committee.

Beusmans, Brass and van Es will all continue to report to Just Spee.

Spee said, "The new management committee brings together a team of people who are highly experienced and extremely effective in their respective fields. This new structure will help us to focus on the key strategic drivers of the business as we look to continue the growth and diversification Endemol achieved throughout 2012."

Endemol created and launched over 50 new formats for broadcasters around the world last year, whilst also growing its distribution catalogue to 29,000 hours of content spanning all genres. In addition the company?s growing drama and comedy slate now includes US and UK productions such as ?Ripper Street? (BBC One), ?Hell On Wheels? (AMC), ?Benidorm? (ITV1), ?Black Mirror? (Channel 4); forthcoming series such as ?Red Widow? (ABC), ?Low Winter Sun? (AMC) and ?Peaky Blinders? (BBC Two); and a range of scripted output in territories including India, Australia, Russia, Germany, France, Holland, Italy, Spain and Argentina.

MUMBAI: Following AMC?s Season 4 renewal of The Walking Dead, Fox International Channels (FIC) has confirmed the global pick up of the show for a fourth season.

FIC will follow its global release model as in previous years, making the series available in all major international TV markets worldwide across FIC?s 200 entertainment channels in 122 countries.

"We are thrilled about a fourth season and support Glen?s and AMC?s mutual decision. We are confident the show will continue with outstanding and compelling storytelling. The Walking Dead is a rare cultural phenomenon that speaks to the entire world and has a massive audience globally regardless of age, sex or ethnicity. It has a life of its own," FIC?s executive VP of original development and scripted programming Sharon Tal Yguado.

Season 3 returns this February with 8 additional episodes after the mid-season hiatus.

The Walking Dead is based on the comic book series written by Robert Kirkman and published by Image Comics. Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd, David Alpert and Frank Darabont are executive producers. Greg Nicotero is a co-executive producer.

MUMBAI: Television format creator and distributor Endemol has announced that TCM, the film channel owned by media giant Turner Broadcasting, has acquired the one hour drama series ?Hell on Wheels?.

The deal was negotiated by Endemol Worldwide Distribution?s sales director UK and Eire, Gisela Asimus-Minnbergh.

Turner Broadcasting director, general entertainment UK and Eire Jemma Yates said, ?We are thrilled that ?Hell on Wheels? will have its first UK debut on TCM in a deal which marks our continued investment in high quality content for the channel.?

Endemol Worldwide Distribution CEO Cathy Payne said, ?Hell on Wheels? is an epic drama, a character-driven historical series with an amazing cast. We are extremely pleased to be working with TCM to bring the series to UK audiences?.

Produced by Entertainment One (eOne) in association with Endemol USA and Nomadic Pictures for AMC, ?Hell on Wheels? is the story of post-Civil War America, focusing on a Confederate soldier (Anson Mount) who sets out to exact revenge on the Union soldiers who have killed his wife. His journey takes him west to ?Hell on Wheels?, a dangerous, raucous, lawless melting pot of a town that travels with and services the construction of the first transcontinental railroad, an engineering feat unprecedented for its time.

The series examines the railroad?s institutionalised greed and corruption, the immigrant experience, and the plight of the newly emancipated African-Americans during reconstruction. Over time, Hell on Wheels chronicles this potent turning point in America?s history, and how uncivilised the business of civilisation can be.

Hell on Wheels stars Anson Mount, Common, Dominique McElligott and Colm Meaney.

Endemol holds all television distribution rights across Europe with eOne handling all remaining territories, as well as worldwide rights for DVD/Blu-ray, VOD and digital distribution.

Hell on Wheels has to date been acquired by the Sundance Channel for Portugal, Spain, Eastern and Central Europe along with AB Droits France, Antenna 3 Spain, TV Norge Norway and CNBC-e Turkey.

The series will premiere on TCMUK in 2012.