World Screen

SAN FRANCISCO, October 20: CBS Interactive is launching “Social Viewing Rooms,” an initiative with Intel as the lead sponsor that lets fans watch CBS shows while interacting with friends online. CBS will have Social Viewing Rooms available for prime time, …

MEXICO CITY/MIAMI, October 20: Grupo Televisa has inked a deal to distribute original content from Telemundo to digital and wireless platforms in Mexico. The digital alliance is part of a broader deal announced in March for Televisa to distribute content …

SYDNEY/DUBLIN, October 20: Irish broadcaster RTE has signed up for a new output deal with Southern Star International covering a range of genres, and has renewed its rights to the hit soap Home and Away. The new pact extends two …

LONDON, October 20: BBC Worldwide Channels is launching a branded BBC Knowledge programming block on Science TV on October 27, reaching some 10 million households in South Korea every weeknight during prime time, from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. The …

LONDON, October 20: Disney Channel U.K. has signed a new multi-year agreement with BT Vision that sees a range of its hit live-action and animated series, original movies and Playhouse Disney programs available through a branded on-demand service. Launching on …

MUMBAI, October 20: In the middle of next month, STAR will launch its third Indian regional-language general-entertainment channel, STAR Pravah, across the state of Maharashtra. The launch of STAR Pravah follows the rollout of VIJAY, for Tamil-language audiences, and STAR …

LONDON, October 20: BBC Worldwide has sold the hit format What Not to Wear to Italy’s Magnolia to produce a local version of 13 hour-long episodes for the Discovery Real Time Channel under the title Ma come ti vesti?!, which …

MOSCOW, October 20: JimJam, the global preschool channel formed by HIT Entertainment and Chellomedia, has been added to the offerings of Russian satellite platform NTV-Plus, following the network’s recent launch in the region of Akado. The launch on NTV-Plus will …

LONDON, October 20: Through its deal with Story House Productions, Parthenon has added two crime titles to its catalogue: Real Interrogations and The Real NCIS. Real Interrogations looks at real criminals and the interrogators who try to break them. The …

LOS ANGELES, October 20: Sir David Frost and his production company, David Paradine Television, have signed over the North American distribution rights for the entire broadcast footage of the historical Frost/Nixon TV interviews from 1977 to Liberation Entertainment. The interviews …