World Screen

TORONTO, December 18: Portfolio Entertainment has secured a number of international sales deals, including one with Red Media Group in Russia for four lifestyle programs. The Russian-based Red Media Group has acquired the exclusive pay-cable and satellite television rights for …

NEW YORK, December 18: The International Fight League (IFL) and Alfred Haber Distribution (AHDI) have secured a deal for HBO Latin America to broadcast IFL content throughout Latin America, Brazil and the Caribbean, beginning in 2008. This deal with HBO …

NEW YORK, December 18: VH1 has unveiled a number of new and returning series for its 2008 slate, including the planned broadcast of the 13th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards, the premiere of its new series Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew …

NEW YORK, December 18: MTV Networks’ preschool service Noggin and nighttime teen block The N are each expanding into 24-hour channels on December 31 at 6 p.m. and 6 a.m., respectively. Noggin will kick off its launch as a 24-hour …

NEW YORK, December 18: Comedy Central will air Matt Groening’s Emmy Award-winning animated series Futurama, beginning Monday, January 2, 2008, at 8 p.m. The network will broadcast all 72 existing episodes, as well as four Futurama DVD movies: Bender’s Big …

TEL AVIV, December 18: Dori Media Group’s Dori Media Central Studios (DMCS), formerly Central Park Productions, has reached a three-year agreement to rent one of its three Buenos Aires-based television studios to Argentinean producer Ideas Del Sur for $3.6 million. …

NEW YORK, December 18: In a deal with Disney-ABC Domestic Television, Lifetime Television has secured the exclusive off-network rights to the ABC reality hit Wife Swap for launch in October 2008. In making the announcement, Susanne Daniels, the president of …

SINGAPORE, December 18: Deals worth a total of $76.7 million were closed at the Asia Media Festival, a 63-percent increase on the previous year, with 5,293 participants from more than 50 countries in attendance. A further $60 million in deals …

BEIJING, December 18: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has granted CCTV.com, the digital arm of the Chinese state broadcaster, the Internet and mobile platform exhibition rights within China for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. The IOC selected CCTV.com based on …

BURBANK, December 18: The MySpace-originated series quarterlife is set for a prime-time premiere on NBC on February 18 as an hour-long drama, with full-length episodes to be streamed on the network’s web portal following their linear broadcast. The show originally …