World Screen

LOS ANGELES: At its TCA presentation, Discovery Communications outlined the upcoming programming highlights for its bouquet of channels, including Destination America, which is planning to air the first-ever live televised exorcism. Exorcism: Live! will revisit the house that inspired the …

LONDON: ZenithOptimedia is forecasting that the number of people regularly watching linear TV will peak this year and will start to decline for the first time in 2016, as mobile drives an increase in online video consumption. The average amount …

PARIS: MIPCOM 2015 will feature the brand-new conference program Into the Stream, which is meant to address the changing global video ecosystem and content distribution strategies across all platforms. Daily sessions and keynotes will explore the digital transformation of traditional …

Since 1995, TV France International (TVFI)—which represents the interests of the French content-export industry—has been hosting Le Rendez-Vous in sunny Biarritz. Taking place September 6 to 10 this year, Le Rendez-Vous is expecting some 69 exhibiting companies, encompassing French producers …

BEVERLY HILLS: Three new projects are in the works for National Geographic Channel, including the global event series Red Planet, which boasts Brian Grazer and Ron Howard as executive producers. Red Planet will tell the epic story of the quest …

MUNICH: Revenues at ProSiebenSat.1 increased 11.8 percent in the second quarter to 772.5 million euros ($846 million), with the group confirming a positive outlook for 2015. Recurring EBITDA rose by 8.4 percent to 237.6 million euros ($260 million). The company …

WELLINGTON: Pukeko Pictures has appointed Clive Spink to replace Andrew Smith as the company’s CEO. Spink has served as the chief operating officer at Pukeko Pictures for more than a year. He is expected to continue to promote the company’s business …

TOKYO: Sony has posted a 39-percent increase in quarterly operating profit, to 96.9 billion yen ($780 million), though sales slipped 0.1 percent to 1.8 trillion yen ($14.8 billion). Sony's music division saw income rise 173 percent year on year, while …

LONDON: MP & Silva has secured the media rights for LaLiga football in Scandinavia and Finland, as well as Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia and Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia and Japan. The agreement covers all matches during the tournament …

NEW YORK: The International Licensing Industry Merchandisers’ Association’s (LIMA) first annual Global Licensing Industry Survey reveals that the market for products bearing the trademarked names and likenesses of cartoon characters, corporate logos and brands, major sports teams and more generated …