World Screen

STOCKHOLM, February 12: FremantleMedia has secured the international rights to Metronome’s new game show Family Links, with plans to produce and roll out the format worldwide, excluding Scandinavia. Family Links is a game show where the whole family competes to …

SINGAPORE, February 12: Singaporean cable platform StarHub has secured the exclusive broadcast rights for the 2008 UEFA European Football Championship (EURO 2008), which takes place in Austria and Switzerland from June 7 to 29. The agreement covers the 'live' telecast …

STAMFORD, February 12: For the fourth quarter, revenues at World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) rose 23 percent to reach $132.6 million. Profit also rose for the period, to $21.5 million from $15.5 million, and operating income increased from $17.5 million to …

WEST PALM BEACH, February 12: ION Television has reached a deal with Twentieth Television to add the classic series M*A*S*H to its prime-time lineup. “A timeless staple like M*A*S*H is a great win for our schedule, as we migrate our …

NEW YORK, February 12: Fujisankei Communications International (FCI), a subsidiary of Japan’s Fuji Television Network, has made an investment in the Asian-American media outfit ImaginAsian Entertainment (IA). The investment follows a similar move last year by Korea’s Sidus Corp. “Fujisankei’s …

PARIS, February 12: Alex Gibney, an Oscar-nominated American scriptwriter, director and producer, will deliver the keynote speech, titled “The Power of Documentary,” at this year’s MIPDOC on Sunday, April 6. Gibney is involved with two Oscar-nominated documentary films: Taxi to …

ATLANTA/SAN FRANCISCO, February 12: Turner Broadcasting has acquired the broadcast rights to the CG-animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, from creator George Lucas, and is set to premiere the show this fall in the U.S. on Cartoon Network, followed …

NEW YORK, February 12: NBC Universal announced that Oxygen, its newly acquired female-targeted network, will serve as an additional platform to provide significant weekday coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. As previously announced, NBC Universal will present more than …

BARCELONA, February 12: According to a consumer-behavior study conducted by Ericsson and CNN, more than a third—34 percent—of respondents ranked TV as the most in-demand mobile application and almost half—44 percent—of the respondents stated that they would adopt mobile TV …

BURBANK, February 12: With the Hollywood writers expected to return to work tomorrow, ABC has announced pickups of nine series for next season, including returning favorites like Desperate Housewives and freshman offerings Dirty Sexy Money and Pushing Daisies. Brothers & …