Abrams will focus on integrating the technical strengths of PDI and DreamWorks, as well as enhancing the Internet connectivity between them to create one network allowing digital resources to be fully shared. Marilyn Friedman officially moves up from director of recruiting to head of studio recruitment. Friedman attends industry salary survey and planning meetings and school recruiting events, maintains a recruiting information network with strong industry contacts and a European recruiting liaison. Schedule Fox Kids Network adds new animated series Medabot to its fall lineup for 2001. The winning robots receive additional arms, legs and other parts that give them more powers.
Special medals serve as the robots' brains.
Medarot began life in Comic Bon Bon , a serialized magazine published by one of the leading Japanese book houses, Kodansha. The animated series debuted on TV Tokyo in July 1999, with 100 episodes having aired to date. Egmont Imagination UK Ltd. The company is part of Egmont Group, based in Denmark. Stephenson started her career on the international sales team at Hearst Entertainment and was most recently manager of European broadcast sales for Team Dandelion. Stephenson will be attending the L.A. Screenings to present Egmont properties.