World Screen

NEW YORK, January 25: Sandra Carter Global (SCG) and Sandra Carter International (SCI) will merge with Lightworks Program Distribution (LPD), with SCG’s founder and principal, Sandra Carter, to join Lightworks as executive VP of business development. John Cuddihy, LPD’s president …

BOULOGNE, January 25: Full-year 2007 revenues at the TF1 Group were up 4.1 percent to 2.8 billion euros, with the greatest gains being in the French broadcaster’s Audiovisual Rights segment. French broadcasting revenues were up 3.1 percent to 2.2 billion …

ATLANTA, January 25: TNT has given the go ahead to a new legal drama, tentatively titled Raising the Bar, from Emmy-winning producer Steven Bochco. The series, which stars Mark-Paul Gosselaar (NYPD Blue), Gloria Reuben (ER) and Jane Kaczmarek (Malcolm in …

LONDON, January 25: BBC Two will carry a live broadcast of Super Bowl XLII from Arizona on Sunday, February 3, at 10:50 p.m., marking the first time that the British pubcaster has aired the popular American football event. Jake Humphrey …

TOKYO, January 25: Shigeo Fukuchi has been officially inaugurated as the new president of Japanese pubcaster NHK, after having been approved by the company’s board of governors in December 2007. At a press conference earlier today, Fukuchi said that the …

NEW YORK, January 25: The Nielsen Company has announced the commercial launch of a web-based measurement service that aggregates and anonymously reports on VOD usage based on real-time transactions collected from set-top boxes, with Comcast coming aboard as the first …

FOSTER CITY, January 25: In its first collaboration with a television content provider, Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) has made MTV programming available on Universal Media Discs (UMDs), the data cartridges used by the handheld PlayStation Portable (PSP) device. The …

MUNICH, January 25: Rüdiger Böss, the senior VP of group programming acquisitions at ProSiebenSat.1 Group, will be looking to completed-run U.S. series and reruns to fill any possible schedule gaps. The German broadcasting group has the rights to a number …

LOS ANGELES, January 25: Two more independent studios, Lionsgate and Marvel Entertainment, have entered into interim agreements with the Writers Guild of America, following similar moves by United Artists, Worldwide Pants and Spyglass Entertainment, among others. Other outfits that are …

LONDON, January 25: A new study from WPP’s GroupM says that global advertising spending in measured media will increase 6.8 percent to $479 billion in 2008, up from an estimated 6-percent gain in 2007. The study, This Year, Next Year, …