Garth Ancier, president of BBC America, is stepping down from his position, effective in March. Ancier, however, will stay on as non-executive director of BBC Worldwide America. Under Ancier’s watch BBC America increased its distribution to 65 million U.S. homes.

MTV has made a pair of additions, naming Steve Tseckares vice president of special programming and production and James Bolosh vice president of series development. Tseckares was most recently vice president of programming at Comcast Entertainment Group, while Bolosh was vice president of event programming at HGTV.

Call her an iMarketer. Catherine Balsam-Schwaber has been named senior vice president of marketing at iVillage, reporting to executive vice president Jodi Kahn. Balsam-Schwaber was previously vice president of integrated marketing at MTV Networks.

Hachette Filipacchi has made two promotions, naming Matthew Talomie advertising director and Linda Tullio New York manager at Elle Décor. Talomie was previously executive sales director for Elle Décor and Metropolitan Home (which folded earlier this month), while Tullio was executive sales director at Metropolitan Home.

Shining Star: Neil Goldstein has joined Star magazine, becoming associate publisher in charge of advertising. Goldstein had been associate publisher at Maxim. Star has also promoted Carrie Byrne Putelo from advertising manager to advertising director.

Reader’s Digest has brought in former Rolling Stone managing editor Robert Love, naming him a consulting editor. Before Love joined Rolling Stone he was an editor at large at Playboy.

Oh, Dawson. Former “Dawson’s Creek” star James Van Der Beek has filed from divorce from wife Heather McComb after six years, citing that classic irreconcilable differences. The couple have no children.

Chris De Luca is staying in Chi-Town. The Chicago Sun-Times has promoted De Luca to sports editor, up from his previous position as a baseball columnist. De Luca has been with the newspaper since 1996, and before that was at the Contra Costa Times.

Jennifer Howard has gone higher at the Chronicle of Higher Education. The weekly has promoted Howard, naming her a senior reporter. She had been a staff writer.

Nicke Bergstrom is coming stateside. Bergstrom has joined Mother New York, becoming a creative director. He was a founder and creative director at the Swedish digital agency Farfar.

Sapient Interactive has brought in Nathan Hackstock, naming him West Coast creative director. Hackstock was most recently chief digital creative director for Saatchi & Saatchi Singapore’s southeast Asia region. Sapient has also named former Citi senior vice president Alex Sion vice president of digital strategy and financial services.

Wieden + Kennedy has named Frank Hahn and Naoki Ito executive creative directors, working out of the agency’s Tokyo office. Hahn previously worked in the agency’s Shanghai office, while Ito joins from GT Tokyo.

Tim Brown has joined the agency Tribal Fusion, becoming general manager for Europe. Brown was previously head of ad product strategy at Yahoo Europe.