World Screen

LONDON, June 6: Wadah Khanfar, the director general of Al Jazeera Network, will give the Worldview Address at this year’s MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival (MGEITF), which takes place from August 22 to 24. In his Worldview Address, which offers …

NEW YORK, June 6: Videos from YouTube can now be viewed directly on BRAVIA flat-panel TVs via Sony’s BRAVIA Internet Video Link Service, which delivers a variety of on-demand entertainment content for free. The BRAVIA Internet Video Link, which went …

ENGLEWOOD, June 6: Dennis Hopper is set to star in Crash, the first original drama from Starz Entertainment, based on the Academy Award-winning film of the same name. The 13×1-hour series, co-produced with Lionsgate, has begun production in Albuquerque, New …

TORONTO, June 6: Kim Cattrall, of Sex and the City fame, has signed on to voice the role of Dee in the animated sitcom Producing Parker, premiering in spring 2009 on E! in Canada. Producing Parker follows Parker Kovak, an …

  LOS ANGELES, June 6: Azteca Networks and DIRECTV are set to launch a new 24-hour satellite-only channel, Azteca México, to be aired through DIRECTV MÁS in the U.S. beginning June 11. Azteca México will offer exclusive programming from TV …

NASHVILLE, June 6: TNA Wrestling has reached new agreements to supply its wrestling programming to Spanish terrestrial broadcaster Antena 3 and Portuguese pay-TV sports network Sport TV. Negotiated by RDA TV, TNA’s exclusive worldwide television rights agency, these deals follow …

LONDON, June 6: FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) reported that traffic to its web portal for talkbackTHAMES’ reality competition series Britain’s Got Talent has nearly doubled from last year’s figures. Over the course of the series, 3.4 million video clips were viewed …

BURBANK, June 6: Universal Pictures Digital Platforms Group and Glu Mobile have teamed up to launch a new mobile game based on the hit SCI FI Channel series Battlestar Galactica. The game is set aboard the BSG-75, and players have …

NASHVILLE, June 6: Documentary Channel (DOC) will celebrate the one-year anniversary of the network’s cult hit Johnny Berlin with the U.S. television premiere of its sequel, Johnny Berlin 2: Notes from the Dumpster, on June 16. DOC will showcase both …

LOS ANGELES, June 6: Kevin Brockman has been promoted to executive VP of global communications at Disney-ABC Television Group, with oversight of all corporate, news and entertainment communication efforts worldwide. Additionally, Brockman is responsible for the group’s photography, broadcast publicity, …