World Screen

MUNICH, January 10: Poland’s public broadcaster TVP has acquired the Sat.1 telenovela Love is in the Air from SevenOne International. The German series launched yesterday on TVP1 as Miłość puka do drzwi (Love Knocks on the Door) and will air …

LONDON, January 10: Entara has adopted the Parthenon Entertainment Group name, as of this month, following the acquisition of Parthenon by Entara’s parent company, the private investment and business management group Arkaga Fund. All Entara’s properties, including Magic Roundabout, Domo, …

DOHA, January 10: Al Jazeera English, the Middle-East-based English-language news and current affairs channel, will launch on Hong Kong Cable on January 16, extending its reach to more than 100 million households worldwide. Al Jazeera English is supported in Asia …

MIAMI, January 10: The U.S. Hispanic network Telemundo says it averaged 1,035,000 total viewers aged 2 and older in prime time from Monday through Friday in 2007, an increase of 7 percent over the previous year, and experienced a 10-percent-plus …

LOS ANGELES, January 10: The social networking site MySpace will roll out a new online content channel, titled MySpace Celebrity, where fans can interact with their favorite stars and receive current news, photos, blogs and video updates centered on celebrities. …

DETROIT, January 10: Spike TV has ordered six one-hour episodes of a new series from Al Roker Entertainment that takes viewers inside the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). DEA is being produced by Al Roker Entertainment in association with Size 12 …

MONTREAL, January 10: The Canadian pay-TV operator Cogeco Cable has announced a video-on-demand agreement with Disney-ABC International Television for a range of new and classic movies from Walt Disney Pictures, Disney Animation, Pixar, Touchstone Pictures and Miramax. The agreement includes …

LONDON, January 10: Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has inked an agreement to provide a range of current and library movie titles to Belgian telecom operator Belgacom’s on-demand service. Belgacom TV customers will be able to access current and library …

BANGKOK, January 10: Thailand’s leading pay-TV platform, TrueVisions UBC, is set to begin offering personal video recorders (PVRs) to its subscriber base early this year. TrueVisions UBC will be offering standard-definition PVRs by Humax integrated with OpenTV Core2 and OpenTV …

LOS ANGELES, January 10: Warner Bros. has informed about 1,000 TV and film production employees that several layoffs could soon be announced as a result of the Hollywood writers’ strike. A statement from the studio noted: “These WARN notices were …