World Screen

NEW YORK: Net profit at CBS Corporation for the second quarter fell from $408.4 million a year ago to $15.4 million, while in the first half the company recorded a loss of $39.9 million, as compared with a profit last …

LOS ANGELES: ITV Studios’ Hell’s Kitchen has been picked up for a seventh and eighth season by FOX, which is also set to air the live one-hour special Gordon Ramsay: Cookalong Live. Hell’s Kitchen, which is currently airing on FOX …

MUNICH: ProSiebenSat.1 Media’s revenues in the second quarter dropped 9 percent to 694 million euros, while net profit after minority interests fell 23.5 percent to 45.5 million euros. "Our current results show that our measures were a timely, appropriate response …

PARIS: Tony Cohen, the CEO of FremantleMedia, will deliver a keynote address at MIPCOM on October 5, outlining his vision for the future of television production. Cohen’s speech will launch MIPCOM’s new Rethinking Production program, which combines a series of …

CHATSWORTH: Image Entertainment has signed an agreement to supply DISH Network with pay-per-view and video-on-demand entertainment programming for the service’s more than 13.5 million subscribers. The deal gives DISH Network the ability to offer subscribers select titles from Image Entertainment …

SANTA CLARITA: Small World IFT has picked up two formats from the catalogue of Aito Media, including Night Patrol.  Small World now takes on representation for Night Patrol, which broke an all-time audience record for Finnish Channel JIM, as well as …

NEW YORK: In the second quarter, RHI Entertainment recorded revenues of $22.7 million, a 58-percent drop as a result of a decrease in library revenues. RHI’s library revenues fell 79 percent to $10.9 million, but production revenues soared from $2.6 million …

BURBANK: Warner Bros. International Television Distribution (WBITD) has set up a new international production unit, which will focus on establishing outlets in major territories that will create locally produced versions of the studio’s shows as well as develop original content.  …

STOCKHOLM: After receiving the go-ahead from the Bulgarian Commission for the Protection of Competition, the Modern Times Group (MTG) has reorganized its broadcasting assets in the market, grouping them under Nova Televizia. In March, MTG signed a deal with Apace Media to transfer all …

EL SEGUNDO: The DIRECTV Group—with a subscription base of 24.2 million in the U.S., Latin America and Mexico—upped its revenues in the second quarter by 9 percent to $5.2 billion, but net profit was down 11 percent to $407 million. …