World Screen

LONDON: Justin Lee Collins: Good Times, a Tiger Aspect production for Five, is a new ten-part entertainment chat show that will air each week starting from the end of March. Collins, who joined Five on an exclusive two-year deal last …

LONDON: Sky is to launch Sky 3D, Europe’s first dedicated 3D channel, in April, and is offering a preview of the new service on January 31 with the live broadcast of the Premier League match between Arsenal and Manchester United. …

LONDON: For the first half of the year, British satellite platform BSkyB posted revenues of £2.9 billion, a 10-percent increase on the year-ago period, with a net profit of £256 million, a 54-percent increase. The platform now has 9.7 million …

PORT WASHINGTON: E1 Entertainment has acquired all North American rights to Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita, alongside four other classic Italian films, through a new agreement with International Media Films. E1 previously only held North American home-video rights for La …

LONDON: Endemol Worldwide Distribution has set up a new office in Los Angeles, promoting Matt Creasey to oversee its business in the Americas, among other territories, and tapping Rolando Figueroa for a Latin American and U.S. Hispanic sales post. Creasey, formerly …

BURBANK: Two one-hour dramas have been given ten-episode orders by ABC Family: Huge and Pretty Little Liars.  Huge, based on Sasha Paley’s book of the same name, follows six teens and the staff at a weight-loss camp, as they look …

SYDNEY: Beyond Distribution has sold 24 titles to Rainbow Media for the international feeds of WE tv and Sundance Channel. Beyond licensed 12 series, totaling more than 130 hours of HD drama and factual programming, to WE tv for viewers in …

SANTA MONICA: Howard Zinn, the historian whose A People’s History of the United States was the basis for HISTORY’s recent special The People Speak, has passed away at the age of 87. The People Speak, executive produced by Chris Moore, Matt Damon and …

LONDON: Adam Crozier, currently the chief executive of the Royal Mail Group, has been tapped for the top job at ITV Plc after a long search for a successor to Michael Grade. Grade announced last April his intention to exit ITV. In …

NEW YORK: Home Box Office has acquired 100-percent ownership of HBO Central Europe, previously operated as a joint venture of subsidiaries of HBO, Sony Pictures Entertainment and The Walt Disney Company.  “Over the past few years, HBO has moved from a series …