World Screen

MUNICH, May 20: The German Premiere Star channel package is expanding its presence in Austria via a deal with the cable network LIWEST, effective June 1. LIWEST Kabelmedien is Austria’s second-largest cable network operator, with a reach of about 130,000 …

SINGAPORE, May 20: SingTel has rolled out a new service that allows customers to watch content from its pay-TV platform mio TV on their mobile phones. SingTel becomes the first operator in Singapore and one of the first in the …

HILVERSUM, May 20: Endemol International has secured deals for its new format Wipeout, set to air in the U.S. this summer on ABC, with broadcasters across Europe. The format has now been sold into Germany, Belgium, Greece, Sweden, Norway and …

LONDON, May 20: Marvel, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox and Warner Bros. Consumer Products are among the more than 200 exhibitors on the roster for Brand Licensing Europe, taking place in London on October 1 and 2. The studios …

SEATTLE/LOS ANGELES, May 20: The digital entertainment services company RealNetworks has reached a deal with Endemol USA to offer subscribers of its SuperPass on-demand service full-length episodes of reality shows from the U.S. and Europe that are no longer airing …

LONDON/MUNICH/BONN, May 20: Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has struck an agreement to make newly released and selected library Sony Pictures titles available for purchase via Videoload, a VOD and electronic-sell-through (EST) service from Germany’s Deutsche Telekom. A number of …

HONG KONG, May 20: Disney-ABC International Television (Asia Pacific) has reached an agreement to supply a selection of current movies and TV series to Chunghwa Telecom’s Multimedia On-Demand (MOD) IPTV VOD service in Taiwan. Under this agreement, facilitated by Deltamac …

LOS ANGELES, May 20: FOX has ordered 13 episodes of Hole in the Wall, the Japanese format represented worldwide by FremantleMedia. A casting call in Los Angeles, New York and Atlanta has been announced for the quirky series, which will …

LOS GATOS, May 20: Online movie rental service Netflix has partnered with the digital-media outfit Roku for a new device that enables its subscribers to instantly stream a library of more than 10,000 movies and TV episodes from Netflix directly …

MILAN/LOS ANGELES, May 20: MGM Networks has signed a deal to launch a local-language version of its MGM Channel on SKY Italia, effective June, marking the service’s launch into the Italian market. The channel will be included in SKY Italia’s …