World Screen

LOS ANGELES: Playboy founder Hugh Hefner is to receive the PromaxDBA Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2010 conference, which takes place June 22 to 24 in Los Angeles. In a session that will take place on June 24 at 1 …

UNIVERSAL CITY: NBC and FremantleMedia are working with YouTube to allow acts to audition online for the hit summer series America’s Got Talent, which returns to screens June 1. From now through June 18, artists can upload their audition videos to www.youtube.com/americasgottalent. …

NEW YORK: The debut of America: The Story of Us garnered 5.7 million total viewers on Sunday on HISTORY, making it the network’s highest rated, most watched special ever. The premiere episode brought in a 4.0 household rating. New episodes …

April 29 to May 9 Toronto, Canada Running for 11 days, presenting more than 170 films from 40-plus countries and hosting hundreds of international delegates, Hot Docs returns in its 17th annual edition. The event has positioned itself as North …

SILVER SPRING: Discovery Channel has hit a new milestone, having notched up distribution in 100.1 million U.S. homes. In passing the 100 million subscriber mark, Discovery Channel is now the second-most widely distributed cable network in the U.S. and the …

MUMBAI: Cricket mogul Lalit Modi has been suspended from his post as head of the Indian Premier League over allegations of corruption. Modi’s suspension was announced over the weekend by BCCI, the governing body for the lucrative sport in India. …

ABU DHABI: Endemol Sport has teamed up with Abu Dhabi Media Company (ADMC) to launch four new HD English Premier League (EPL) channels. The channels will broadcast as part of ADMC’s AD Sports (Abu Dhabi Al-Riyadiya) channel portfolio. The first …

MEXICO CITY: At the L.A. Screenings, Televisa Internacional will be on hand to showcase telenovelas such as Fill Me with Love and A Woman of Steel, along with a number of formats, series and mini-series. The 150×1-hour Fill Me with …

HARRINGTON PARK: Janson Media has sold the documentary special Timeless: A National Parks Odyssey to First HDTV of Russia for its Travel HD channel. The hour-long program looks at national parks across the U.S. and Canada. The film contains footage from …

NEW YORK/LONDON: AETN UK has launched HISTORY on Romanian cable operators Telemach and DCS. Telemach launched the channel on March 1, while DCS followed on April 1. The channel is fully localized in Romanian and features programming across historical genres …