World Screen

October 2008 Two words that seem to go together in many people’s minds are “dusty” and “archives.” Not surprisingly, the people who manage the busiest and best-known video archives don’t much like that association. They point out that purveyors of …

LOS ANGELES, November 21: The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) returned to negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) for the first time in four months yesterday, with the assistance of a federal mediator. The groups are …

LONDON, November 21: The BBC Trust's chairman, Sir Michael Lyons, revealed that due to the worsening economic conditions, the BBC's executive board has agreed to go without their bonuses for 2009. Speaking at a press conference in London, Lyons said: …

NEW YORK, November 21: Roger Ailes, the chairman and CEO of FOX News and chairman of FOX Television Stations, has signed a new five-year contract with News Corporation. Ailes will continue to oversee FOX News, FOX Television Stations, FOX Business …

CHATSWORTH, November 21: Image Entertainment has entered into a definitive merger agreement with Nyx Acquisitions, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Q Black Media, to sell itself in a transaction valued at approximately $100 million. The deal includes the assumption of the …

LOS ANGELES, November 21: Pushing Daisies, Dirty Sexy Money and Eli Stone have not been given a full-season order by ABC, but the network has picked up four additional episodes of Life on Mars. Though ABC has not officially cancelled …

LONDON, November 21: Following the success of Russell and Ross: What the F*** Was That All About? and Madonna & Guy: Where Did It All Go Wrong?, three new hour-long documentaries have been commissioned by Five for a quick turnaround. …

SINGAPORE, November 21: SPORTFIVE Asia has been appointed to handle the broadcasting rights for the Bundesliga German football matches in Japan and Korea for the 2009/10 and 2011/12 seasons. SPORTFIVE Asia will also be distributing the rights in Australia, New …

NEW YORK, November 21: A new deal between entertainment studio and new-media platform My Damn Channel and Comedy Central's digital comedy network Atom.com sees the cross-distribution of a range of the companies' original productions. My Damn Channel will launch a …

CENTENNIAL/NEW YORK, November 21: Comcast-owned International Networks, an aggregator of multi-ethnic programming in the U.S., has struck a deal to launch German channels Deutsche Welle and ProSiebenSat.1 Welt on Verizon's FiOS TV service. The two general-entertainment networks have launched on …