World Screen

NEW YORK: The final episode of Battlestar Galactica scored 2.4 million live viewers for SCI FI, while HBO drew 2.7 million viewers for the third season finale of Big Love. Battlestar Galactica ended its four-season run on Friday night with its most-watched episode ever. …

MEXICO CITY: Televisa Internacional is heading to MIPTV with a catalogue of telenovelas, series and a talk show to offer international buyers. Among the telenovelas on offer are Tomorrow is Forever, the story of pure and innocent love that will …

LONDON: National Geographic Channel U.K. is launching Nat Geo Wild HD, available exclusively on the Sky+HD platform. Launching April 1, Nat Geo Wild HD covers natural history, airing programs such as Blue Whale Odyssey, Darwin’s Lost Voyage, the In The …

NEW YORK: Band of Brothers, a ten-part World War II mini-series originally produced for HBO, will air on Spike TV in the third quarter of 2009. Based on the book of the same name, written by historian and biographer Stephen …

STOCKHOLM: Sparks Network has struck a deal with ProSiebenSat.1 for the reality game show Flashback from BlazHoffski to air on NET 5 in the Netherlands.  The larger plan is to roll out the new format to other stations within the ProSiebenSat.1 group. In …

SAN JOSE: The number of IPTV subscribers worldwide has hit 21.8 million, a 63-percent increase on the 13.3 million recorded at the end of 2007, according to industry analysts Point Topic. The data, released by Broadband Forum at today’s opening day of …

LOS ANGELES: Hallmark Channel has increased its programming slate for the 2009/10 season, with 35 original movies to offer. Films in production include Mrs. Miracle, about a single father and the housekeeper he finds who helps bring his family together …

LOS ANGELES: Chelsea Handler will stay on as host and executive producer at E! Entertainment’s Chelsea Lately through 2012 as part of her new deal with Comcast Entertainment Group that also includes the production of shows via her newly established venture, Borderline Amazing …

LOS ANGELES/TORONTO: The Jim Henson Company and DECODE Entertainment have teamed up to co-produce 26 half-hour episodes of a new 3-D animated series, The Doozers, based on the industrious characters from Fraggle Rock. Targeted at 4- to 7-year-olds, The Doozers …

CAMBRIDGE: Brightcove has lined up a slate of new Japanese clients, among them Tokyo Broadcasting System, after establishing a majority owned subsidiary in this key Asian market last year. In 2008, the Japanese subsidiary of the online video platform was established with a …