World Screen

LONDON/DUBAI, February 21: Dubailand, a member of Tatweer, has formed an alliance with HIT Entertainment to develop a diverse portfolio of family entertainment projects in Dubai, including a “Little Big Club” theme park designed around characters such as Barney, Pingu, …

TEL AVIV, February 21: For 2007, Dori Media Group recorded revenues of $30 million, a 47-percent gain on 2006, with an after-tax profit that was up 61 percent to $6.6 million. In the period, telenovela broadcasting and format rights revenues …

LONDON, February 21: Virgin Media Television’s men’s entertainment channel Bravo has acquired the drama mini-series The Kill Point in an exclusive deal with Lionsgate. Starring John Leguizamo and Donnie Wahlberg, the 8×1-hour mini-series follows a team of American veterans of …

LOS ANGELES, February 21: The Style Network has renewed its hit reality series Kimora: Life in the Fab Lane for a second season, which will premiere on the cable channel on April 20 at 8 p.m. The series is The …

SINGAPORE, February 21: Singaporean media group MediaCorp has taken a stake in a new Vietnamese company that will produce entertainment and financial news content and assist in the establishment of a new channel in the latter half of this year. …

LOS ANGELES, February 21: Edie Falco, the Emmy Award-winning actress who starred in The Sopranos, has been tapped to play a New York City nurse in a new half-hour dark comedy for Showtime. The pilot, co-produced by Showtime and Lionsgate …

BURBANK, February 21: ABC Entertainment announced that a number of hit shows will return to its schedule this April with original episodes, including Brothers & Sisters, Lost and Desperate Housewives, among others. The freshman comedy Samantha Who? returns to the …

NEW YORK, February 21: Classics from the CBS library, including Star Trek and The Twilight Zone, are being made available online on CBS.com and across the 300 websites that make up the CBS Audience Network. The initial lineup includes full-length …

LOS ANGELES, February 21: The members of the Directors Guild of America (DGA) have agreed to ratify a new 3-year contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) on the terms of wage increases and residuals on …

LONDON, February 21: BSkyB has confirmed that it will mount a legal challenge against the findings of the Competition Commission's report on its investment in ITV and the subsequent ruling that it should lower its stake from 17.9 percent to …