World Screen

LOS ANGELES: Nickelodeon has greenlit 26 new episodes of the hit series SpongeBob SquarePants, bringing the total number of episodes to 178. The new episodes will feature the original voice cast, including Tom Kenny as SpongeBob, Bill Fagerbakke as Patrick, …

UNIVERSAL CITY: The new drama Parenthood is slated to make its debut in NBC’s mid-season schedule on March 1, while The Marriage Ref, a comedy panel show from Jerry Seinfeld, premieres March 14. The Celebrity Apprentice returns in its third …

PHILADELPHIA: Comcast Corporation has launched Fancast XFINITY TV, a new on-demand online service that provides access to thousands of hours of cable shows, movies and independently produced content free of charge to Comcast customers. Through Fancast XFINITY TV, as a …

SINGAPORE: The number of global pay-TV subscribers is expected to reach more than 730 million by the end of 2011, according to new data from ABI Research, with telco-TV services as a key driver of the growth. ABI Research’s new …

MIAMI: Telemundo Communications Group is to enhance and expand its news content across key day parts and multiple platforms, featuring an increased investment in local newscasts.  "The media business is going through enormous changes, we are in a technological revolution …

LONDON: BBC In-House Entertainment has named Sarah Edwards, currently the head of development for entertainment at Talkback Thames, as its head of format entertainment development. Edwards, a former head of development at 12 Yard Productions, has developed entertainment formats such …

TORONTO: Shaftesbury Films has completed the third season of the half-hour teen comedy Overruled!, which airs on Family Channel in Canada.  The show follows 15-year-old Jared "Coop" Cooper, who is a lawyer in his high school’s teen court. Overruled! airs …

 MONTREAL: The Alliance for Children and Television (ACT) will present 12 awards that recognize achievement in French-Canadian TV programming for young viewers over the past two years at its 2010 French-Language Awards of Excellence. The competition is open to all …

LOS ANGELES: Paramount Digital Entertainment has unveiled a digital film index at ParamountClips.com, which allows Paramount Pictures licensees to search the studio’s library of films frame-by-frame and purchase what they want. Digitalsmiths has been tapped to index, manage, distribute and …

  NEW YORK: In this video interview, Lesli Rotenberg, the senior VP of children’s media at PBS, and Sara DeWitt, the senior director of PBS KIDS and PBS KIDS GO! Interactive, talk about some of the new multiplatform initiatives that are …