World Screen

LONDON: For the year ended March 31, 2009, BBC Worldwide reported revenues of £1 billion, reflecting a 9.5-percent increase, with an operating profit of £102.6 million, down 12.8 percent, while profit before interest and tax fell from £117.7 million to …

LONDON: The ITV Global Entertainment format Pressure Cooker has been ordered for 60 half-hours by RTL Netherlands. ITV Studios will co-produce Pressure Cooker with RTL Productions for RTL 5 in the Netherlands. The series will premiere late 2009 as part …

LOS ANGELES: The new one-hour comedic drama Drop Dead Diva came out of the gate well on Lifetime across key demographics, ranking as the network’s highest-rated original drama debut since the 2007 launch of Army Wives. The July 12 premiere …

NEW YORK/PHILADELPHIA: Comcast Corporation has added a slate of partners to its On Demand Online trial, announcing 17 new cable channel deals today, including A&E, BBC America and E!, as well as an agreement with CBS, following news of its …

NEW YORK: VH1 and VH1 Classic are set to air Lords of Revolution, a new five-part series spotlighting leaders of cultural transformations, as a week-long event, which kicks off August 10. Narrated by Richard Belzer, each hour-long installment of Lords …

TEMPE: The Independent Television Festival (ITVFest), an event dedicated to independently produced original TV pilots and web series, has signed a deal to air content, including its award ceremony, worldwide through Unicorn Media’s UMedia Player Services platform. ITVFest, being held …

COUNTRY: U.K. (also present in the U.S., Canada, Caribbean, sub-Saharan Africa) LAUNCH DATE: February 2008 (U.S. launch in 1980; African launch in December 2008) OWNERSHIP: Viacom Inc. DISTRIBUTION: A total of 98 million subscribers (88 million subscribers in the U.S.; …

Dori Media Group Before Michal Nashiv joined the Dori Media Group (DMG) three years ago, she had worked in the advertising business for nearly a decade. She recalls a boss she had at McCann-Erickson in Israel who told his staff …

This week, Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific (DNAP) introduced the Investigation Discovery (ID) brand to Asian audiences as a block on the Discovery Channel. The roll out kicked off in Taiwan at the beginning of the  week and extends to the Southeast …

April 2009   With an aggressive acquisitions spree in the last two years, E1 Entertainment has boldly declared itself a major player in the international production-and-distribution market. What started as a home-entertainment distributor in Canada is now a global enterprise …