World Screen

LONDON, November 4: After almost a two-year absence, the Sky basic channels, including the popular Sky1, are returning to Virgin Media's 3.8 million cable customers, with the two platforms announcing today an agreement that ends their much-publicized carriage row. As …

NEW YORK, November 4: According to published reports, Sumner Redstone has hinted at the possible sale of his family's movie theater chain in order to alleviate National Amusements' debt problems. Last month, Redstone offloaded $233 million in Viacom and CBS …

LONDON, November 4: Following a similar deal in Korea, Warner Bros. has become the first Hollywood studio to make new movie releases available in China via video on demand, priced at between 60 cents and $1 per title. New-release movies, …

CHESTNUT HILL, November 4: A new research study indicates that commercials can still have an impact and create "brand memory," even when viewers are fast-forwarding through them with their DVRs. Boston College researchers have found that fast-forwarding viewers actually pay …

LOS ANGELES, November 4: Production is under way on Fox Television Studios' new adventure drama Defying Gravity from creator and executive producer James Parriott, with the BBC in the U.K., Canada's CTV and Space and Germany's ProSieben on board as …

UNIVERSAL CITY, November 4: NBC has ordered an additional nine episodes of its freshman comedy Kath & Kim, which stars Saturday Night Live's Molly Shannon and Selma Blair of Hellboy 2 as a dysfunctional mother-daughter duo in an American adaptation …

ENGLEWOOD, November 4: Starz Entertainment has acquired a raft of titles for its portfolio of premium pay-TV movie channels, including first-run and library features from Lionsgate, IFC and others. For its slate of 16 channels, Starz On Demand and Starz …

LONDON, November 4: A selection of programming from BBC Worldwide, including the hit comedy series Extras, is now available for purchase and download from the iTunes Store in France. Starting today, titles such as The Lost World, Pride and Prejudice, …

NEW DELHI, November 4: The Indian DTH platform Tata Sky has selected NDS's XTV solution to roll out a PVR service to its subscriber base. Tata Sky+ enables viewers to record live TV, play back, pause and rewind live broadcasts, …

LONDON/STOCKHOLM/PARIS, November 4: Zodiak International has closed a deal with UGC in France for the new adaptation of Stieg Larsson's three best-selling books in the Millennium series. UGC has taken on the theatrical, TV and DVD rights to distribute both …