World Screen

TEL AVIV, August 8: Dori Media Group has signed a three-year extension for the carriage of its two dedicated telenovela TV channels—VIVA and VIVA Platina—on Israeli cable platform HOT. The current agreement will be extended effective January 1, 2009, for …

LOS ANGELES, August 8: FOX will premiere the body-bending game show Hole in the Wall from FremantleMedia North America on September 11. The series will air at 8 p.m., with The Moment of Truth, which was previously scheduled in the …

NEW YORK, August 8: SCI FI Channel will air the final ten episodes of Battlestar Galactica in 2009, followed by a two-hour special that portrays the events before the series begins. Directed by series star Edward James Olmos and written …

NEW YORK, August 8: Sundance Channel has greenlit production on Eco-Trip: The Real Cost of Living, an eight-part series hosted by eco-adventurer David de Rothschild. Slated to premiere in 2009, each half-hour episode will trace the origins and environmental impact …

BURBANK, August 8: Production has begun on the live-action original series Aaron Stone for premiere in February, which will coincide with the launch of the newly re-branded kids’ entertainment channel Disney XD. The single-camera production, filmed in high definition in …

LONDON, August 8: Shorts International’s The Sci Fi Collection of Shorts is now available on the iTunes Stores in the U.S., the U.K. and Canada, featuring 21 titles ranging from drama to thrillers to animation. The features include Eli, a …

EL SEGUNDO, August 7: The second quarter at The DIRECTV Group saw revenues increase by 16 percent on the same period last year to $4.81 billion, with a 2-percent increase in profit to $455 million, driven by subscriber gains at …

MUNICH, August 7: Although revenues were up 45 percent to 801.9 million euros at ProSiebenSat.1 Media, a weakened German free-TV ad market has impacted the company’s second-quarter net results, with profit down 32 percent to 59.5 million euros. At the …

MUNICH, August 7: There was an 18.9-percent gain in second-quarter revenues to 272.4 million euros at German pay-TV giant Premiere, but the company still posted a wider loss, of 37.8 million euros, versus the 32.6 million euros loss recorded in …

LONDON, August 7: In a deal with Warner Bros. International Television Distribution, Sky One has scored the linear British TV rights to J.J. Abrams’ new series for FOX, Fringe. Sky One is slated to launch the show, from Abrams, Robert …