World Screen

NEW YORK: With its revenues plummeting from $53.5 million a year ago to $9.5 million in the third quarter, RHI Entertainment saw its net loss widen from $3.5 million to $16.7 million. “The third quarter was a difficult one for …

PALISADES PARK: The 67th annual Golden Globe Awards, set to air live on NBC, have been sold by Alfred Haber Distribution, Inc. (AHDI) to a number of international broadcasters, among them ProSieben in Germany and TNT in Latin America. In …

PARIS: TF1’s revenues were down by 3 percent in Q3 to 498 million euros, but the French broadcasting group emerged from last year’s 14 million euros net loss to record a profit of 2 million euros. In the period, revenues …

NEW YORK: NBC Universal chief Jeff Zucker is expected to be named the head of the proposed Comcast Corporation and GE joint venture, according to reports, a position that would see him adding the Comcast cable networks to his remit. …

ENCINO: Solid Entertainment has sold the reality series Busted & Disgusted: The World’s Most Disgusting Videos to RTL 7 and RTL 8 in the Netherlands.  The show previously aired on Fox Reality Channel in the U.S. The ten-part series features …

BURBANK: The hour-long CGI animated special Gotta Catch Santa Claus from Cookie Jar Entertainment is to make its U.S. debut during ABC Family’s Countdown to 25 Days of Christmas on November 18.  Gotta Catch Santa Claus is based on the …

ATLANTA: The new series NFL Full Contact, produced for truTV by NFL Films, will go behind the scenes of professional football, following the action from draft day to the Super Bowl.  Premiering February 8 at 10 p.m., the series will explore …

GÜTERSLOH: An effective cost-cutting strategy helped Bertelsmann increase its third-quarter profit from 15 million euros to 87 million euros, despite a 4.5-percent decrease in revenues to 3.6 billion euros. Hartmut Ostrowski, the chairman and CEO of Bertelsmann, noted: “Our third-quarter …

LOS ANGELES: Gabrielle Anwar (Burn Notice) and Craig Sheffer (One Tree Hill) lead the cast of a new Hallmark Channel original movie, tentatively titled Murder Among Friends, which has begun production in Vancouver for a 2010 premiere.  The movie centers on …

NEW YORK: The average American spent 4 hours and 49 minutes per day in front of the television set in the 2008-2009 season, according to Nielsen, a 20-percent increase on a decade ago.  The average household, meanwhile, watched eight hours …