World Screen

LOS ANGELES, September 4: Bischoff Hervey Entertainment Television has signed a distribution deal with ShineReveille International for the new series Hulk Hogan's Celebrity Championship Wrestling. ShineReveille International will sell both the format and finished tape for eight one-hour episodes of …

LOS ANGELES, September 4: PorchLightLEARNING.com, a new enterprise launched by PorchLight Entertainment, will focus on bringing media-based educational content to schools, libraries and parents worldwide. Its first offering, Animalia: The Land Where Literacy Lives, includes a 10-episode DVD collection, for …

NEW YORK, September 4: JoAnn Alfano, executive producer of 30 Rock, has been named executive VP of entertainment for Lifetime Networks, effective immediately. Alfano will be responsible for the programming and scheduling of Lifetime Television, Lifetime Movie Network and Lifetime …

ENGLEWOOD, September 3: John Malone’s Liberty Media has announced plans to spin off its Liberty Entertainment business, which will become a publicly traded entity encompassing 50 percent of The DIRECTV Group and 100 percent of Starz Entertainment, among other assets. …

LOS ANGELES, September 3: The Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers (AMPTP) remains at odds with the Screen Actors Guild (SAG), taking issue with a 12-page mailer the union sent to its members regarding negotiations for a new contract. …

LONDON/COSTA MESA, September 3: NDS has released a survey of DVR users in the U.S., finding that 80 percent can’t live without the device, which was ranked as the third-most indispensable household item after the washing machine and the microwave …

ABU DHABI, September 3: Abu Dhabi Media Company is creating a new venture, imagenation abu dhabi, which intends to spend more than $1 billion over the next five years on creating feature films and digital content. Abu Dhabi Media Company …

NEW YORK, September 3: Rupert Murdoch, the chairman and CEO of News Corporation, brokered a “tentative truce” between presidential candidate Barack Obama and the Fox News network, columnist Michael Wolff reveals in this month’s Vanity Fair. Wolff writes a regular …

EL SEGUNDO/ALVISO, September 3: DIRECTV and TiVo have extended their current agreement, which includes the development, marketing and distribution of a new HD DIRECTV DVR featuring the TiVo service. DIRECTV and TiVo will team up to develop a version of …

SINGAPORE, September 3: ESPN STAR Sports (ESS) has reached a five-year deal with Formula One Management for the exclusive rights to broadcast the FIA Formula One World Championship across multiple platforms in 24 Asian markets. The rights would cover ESS’s …