World Screen

BEVERLY HILLS: Netflix is bringing back its animated adult comedy BoJack Horseman for a third season, and has also unveiled a new original documentary for its slate, Keith Richards: Under the Influence. Season three of BoJack Horseman will feature 12 …

VANCOUVER: The multichannel network operator BroadbandTV and BMG, Bertelsmann's music publishing and rights subsidiary, have teamed up to launch Windfall, which will help to promote up-and-coming musical artists on YouTube. Windfall will help to find, develop and service artists across …

PARIS: Mark Gordon, whose TV and film production credits include Grey's Anatomy and Criminal Minds, is slated to deliver a MIPCOM keynote on Tuesday, October 6. Gordon's keynote, which will take place in the Grand Auditorium of the Palais des …

NEW YORK: Berk Uziyel, the executive director of Filmbox International and director of new media for SPI International, talks to World Screen about the first worldwide native 4K/Ultra HD TV channel, FunBox 4K UHD. At this past ANGACOM in Germany, …

WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has cleared the way for AT&T to acquire DIRECTV and merge the two companies into one combined entity. The $49 billion transaction will create one of the largest multichannel video providers in the …

BEVERLY HILLS: Angelina Jolie Pitt is signed on to direct an adaptation of First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers as an original movie for Netflix.  The film will be based on the memoir of Cambodian author …

LONDON: CSI Sports has inked three carriage deals for its HD network Fight Sports in Indonesia, Finland and Papua New Guinea. Indonesian pay-TV operator MNC Sky Vision picked up the sports channel, as did Finnish telco Elisa. The latter deal …

PHILADELPHIA: Revenue for NBCUniversal increased 20.2 percent to $7.2 billion in the second quarter of 2015, with strong gains in filmed entertainment and theme parks. Operating cash flow increased 19.4 percent to $1.7 billion. Revenue from the cable networks segment …

SILVER SPRING: Discovery Communications is acquiring full ownership of Eurosport from TF1 Group for 491 million euros ($534 million). TF1 will exercise a put option on its 49 percent ownership stake as part of the companies’ previous 2012 agreement. The …

LONDON: Revenues from OTT TV and video in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EEMEA) are expected to reach $2.6 billion in 2020, marking quite a large leap from the $52 million recorded in 2010, according to a new …