World Screen

NEW YORK, March 18: TV Land has greenlit four pilots as part of its ongoing original programming agenda aimed to appeal specifically to viewers in their 40s. First Love, Second Chance gives long-lost sweethearts an opportunity to rekindle their romance …

NEW YORK, March 18: CBS Television Stations has launched the CBS Local Ad Network, which allows CBS-owned stations across the U.S. to syndicate ad-supported local news "widgets" to a variety of blogs and local sites in the communities they serve. …

SANTA MONICA/VANCOUVER, March 18: Lionsgate will roll out an initiative to package many of its DVD releases in environmentally-friendly materials, kicking off with the third season of the hit Showtime series Weeds. The Weeds: Season Three DVD is launching in …

LONDON, March 18: FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) will offer Harpo Productions’ Oprah’s Big Give to international broadcasters at MIPTV, with FremantleMedia’s Worldwide Entertainment team representing the format rights. The 8×1-hour series is already setting records in the U.S., where it airs …

LONDON, March 18: Granada America is working on The Chopping Block, an original culinary competition series for NBC that is hosted by British Michelin-starred chef Marco Pierre White. The new series will see eight couples of novice chefs and restaurateurs …

TORONTO, March 18: Peace Arch Entertainment Group’s revenues for fiscal 2007 rose 191 percent on the year-ago period to C$61.8 million, a record for the company. During the period the Canadian-based company delivered 12 feature films, 43 episodes of TV …

ALVISO, March 18: TiVo has launched its expanded Season Pass service, first announced during CES in January, that allows users to watch video content from the web directly on their television sets. Starting today, the TiVo set-top box is able …

LONDON, March 18: Endemol UK has acquired a 40-percent stake in British digital production outfit Pure Grass Films. As part of this investment, Tim Hincks, Endemol UK’s chief executive, and Peter Cowley, Endemol UK’s managing director of digital media, have …

BRUSSELS, March 18: The European Commission has endorsed the Digital Video Broadcasting-Handheld (DVB-H) standard in a bid to accelerate the rollout of mobile TV services across the region. DVB-H has been added to the EU List of Standards as the …

TV Kids Weekly, March 11, 2008 Executive Producer, Co-CEO and Partner, Mike Young Productions & Taffy Entertainment CEO, Kabillion In a kids’ channel business increasingly dominated by the studio-owned powerhouses Disney Channel, Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network, launching a new service …