World Screen

UNIVERSAL CITY: mun2 is offering viewers a wide range of movies every Friday night at 7 p.m. with its new Have You Cine film block, which kicks off with the hit drama Harsh Times on February 5. Every Friday mun2 …

MIAMI: Venevision International has firmed up a deal with Panama’s TVN for the broadcast rights to the telenovela Salvador de mujeres (Salvador: A Knockout Love), which made its world premiere at NATPE. Produced by Venevision Productions in collaboration with Francisco …

NEW YORK/HONG KONG: WE tv has scored a launch on PCCW’s now TV in Hong Kong, where the female-skewed channel will broadcast with Chinese subtitles. WE tv is now available on now TV as a 24-hour channel in both standard …

DALLAS: Less than 8 percent of U.S. broadband homes—about 5.5 million homes—are considering canceling their pay-TV subscriptions in favor of online video, a Parks Associates report indicates. The report, All Eyes on Video, notes that the unlikelihood of subscriber churn …

LOS ANGELES: Moving Pictures Film & Television is making its foray into the area of new media by teaming with three French filmmakers to create and produce an original web series, The Coat, a post-apocalyptic drama. The Coat will make …

NEW YORK: Verizon has added the Brazilian channel TV Globo Internacional to its FiOS TV service, available to around 3 million viewers across the U.S. The channel launches on Verizon’s FiOS TV service in Texas and California this week, with …

TORONTO: Breakthrough Entertainment has secured a range of broadcast deals throughout Asia, Australia and New Zealand, totaling 125 hours of documentary and factual programming. Greatest Tank Battles has been picked up by Foxtel in Australia and New Zealand. The Future …

LONDON: Five has picked up the terrestrial broadcast rights for the animated series Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom from E1 Kids for its Milkshake preschool block. The series heads to Milkshake in April. From Astley Baker Davis, the creators of …

LONDON: Discovery Networks EMEA has teamed up with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) to create public-service announcements for the worldwide market that put out a call to action about the relief efforts for Haiti. …

BURBANK: Production is under way on the new ensemble comedy Romantically Challenged, starring Alyssa Milano, which will debut this season on ABC. Milano stars as Rebecca, a recently divorced mother of two who doesn’t have the most active dating life. …