World Screen

With its mission statement, “Every day, we grab people everywhere with our entertaining take on life,” A&E Television Networks (AETN) serves viewers in more than 125 countries with channels and programming in the drama, reality and factual genres. The company …

As 2009 was drawing to a close, it was a little hard to get a good handle on the state of broadcast-network television in the U.S. Most of the attention and big headlines were concentrated on NBC, but questions about …

NEW YORK: Al Pacino stars in the Barry Levinson/HBO Films presentation You Don’t Know Jack, debuting this spring on HBO, which is also set to air a new drama from The Wire‘s David Simon and Eric Overmyer and a ten-part …

TORONTO: Canada’s PTV Productions is teaming with the Red Cross for a documentary about the rescue and recovery efforts in the wake of the devastating earthquake in Haiti, with broadcasters TVO and Canal D already on board. The three-part Inside Disaster …

LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK: HBO has announced its documentary lineup for the first half of this year, as well as a deal with Spike Lee for a follow-up to the Emmy-winning New Orleans doc When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in …

NEW YORK: Comedy Central has appointed Kent Alterman as its head of original programming and production, to be based in the network’s Los Angeles office. Alterman, who will report to Michele Ganeless, the president of Comedy Central, will be responsible …

BARCELONA: BKN New Media SL has taken on the global distribution rights, excluding TV in Spain, for the property Lua from Triacom Audiovisual and Televisio de Catalunya. BKN will represent the property in all forms, venues and languages worldwide. There …

NEW YORK: Ludorum’s Chuggington is headed to Disney Channel’s Playhouse Disney programming block in the U.S. on January 18, while Learning Curve Brands is rolling out a toy line for the hit train-themed property internationally. Chuggington, which invites preschoolers to …

NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES: Hope for Haiti, a two-hour telethon presented by MTV Networks to benefit earthquake relief efforts, is to air commercial free across a host of channels in the U.S., among them ABC, NBC, FOX and HBO, and will also …

PASADENA: Transitioning from its current eight-hour program schedule, Planet Green is expanding its content offerings for a 24-hour format, creating a new prime-time programming block, Verge. Planet Green moves to the new 24-hour schedule on March 29. Verge will feature …