World Screen

ATLANTA: Robot Chicken is returning to Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, scoring a two-season, 40-episode pickup for a fifth and sixth run. The series is the highest rated original on Adult Swim. Robot Chicken is created and executive produced by Seth …

LONDON: David Abraham, who currently heads up UKTV, has been appointed as the new chief executive of Channel 4, succeeding Andy Duncan, who stepped down in November. Channel 4 has not yet announced a start date for Abraham. The British broadcaster’s …

MIAMI: Venevision International is launching the world premiere of the telenovela Salvador de mujeres (Salvador: A Knockout Lover) at NATPE. The novela stars Ruddy Rodriguez, Carlos Guillermo Haydon and Alejandra Sandoval. It tells the story of Salvador, a boxer who …

NEW YORK: On revenues that slipped 4 percent to $4.3 billion in the fourth quarter, NBC Universal recorded a profit of $602 million, a 30-percent decline on the year-ago quarter. For the full year, meanwhile, revenues were down 9 percent …

ROME: Mondo TV Group has entered into a deal to produce and distribute a new animated series based on the Puppy in My Pocket brand, with MEG and Giochi Preziosi as co-producers. The Puppy in My Pocket series will have …

LONDON: A local version of the ALL3MEDIA International format Family Connections is headed to Star TV in Turkey, with four prime-time episodes to be created by Sinevizyon. The studio-based entertainment show features a celebrity panel who are faced with two …

PARIS: Coca-Cola is co-sponsoring a new category in MIPTV’s Content 360 cross-media competition, seeking new ideas to engage with teen audiences that integrates the brand into content. Launched in partnership with Ogilvy, Engaging with Teens through Branded Content for Coca-Cola …

LONDON: National Geographic Channel is presenting a new four-part documentary, to be produced by Darlow Smithson Productions over a two-year period, which follows entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson and aeronautical engineer Burt Rutan as they launch the first commercial spaceline. Virgin …

NEEDHAM/LOS ANGELES: The teen drama series Instant Star is to launch throughout Latin America on Boomerang through a deal signed between Echo Bridge Entertainment and Turner Broadcasting System Latin America. The series is being dubbed in Spanish for its March …

ATLANTA: TNT has given the go-ahead to three new original shows, one of which is an alien-invasion series from DreamWorks Television and Steven Spielberg. The as-yet-untitled series stars Noah Wyle (ER) as the leader of a rag-tag group of soldiers …