World Screen

LOS ANGELES, October 19: MarVista Entertainment has granted the Japanese free-TV and home-entertainment rights for the teen drama Beyond the Break to Japanese distributor Twin Co. Twin Co. will license the rights to the 17 one-hour episode series within Japan, …

NEW YORK, October 19: SCI FI Channel has greenlit a two-hour action drama pilot from CBS Paramount Network Television titled Revolution, which will begin production in January 2008. Revolution is the story of “New America,” a distant colony on an …

NEW YORK, October 19: Jon Stewart has reached an agreement with Comedy Central to extend his contract as the host of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart through 2010. The news came on the heels of the network announcing that …

LONDON, October 19: In a deal with Disney-ABC International Television, the U.K.’s Channel 4 will make ABC series available for viewing on a free, ad-supported basis on its video-on-demand channel, 4oD, for up to 30 days following their initial linear …

VIENNA/MUNICH, October 19: The Austrian banking group BAWAG has sold its 42.44 percent interest in ATV to Tele München Group’s Concorde Media Beteiligungs, which already holds a stake in the Austrian broadcaster. The exact purchase price was not revealed; a …

BURBANK, October 19: CBS has given full season orders to its freshman comedy The Big Bang Theory and the returning drama The Unit. The Big Bang Theory, from Warner Bros. Television, becomes the first new comedy to receive a full …

LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK, October 19: CBS Corporation, NBC Universal, Viacom, Fox Entertainment Group and The Walt Disney Company have aligned with new-media players Dailymotion, Veoh Networks, Microsoft Corp. and MySpace for a set of guidelines to protect copyrighted content online. …

TORONTO, October 18: Oxtapixx Worldwide has named Lazarus Consulting as its new sales representative in the U.K. and Ireland. Steve Lazarus will assume a new role on behalf of Octapixx. On this, J. Gary Gladman, Octapixx’s president commented: “We are …

SAN FRANCISCO, October 18: Michael Hoff Productions (MHP) has announced that it will produce Chain Gang Girls for WE tv and Climate Quiz with Bill Nye for The Weather Channel, for broadcast in the first quarter of 2008 and the …

SINGAPORE, October 18: Singapore’s Theatre Red has announced that production, investment and broadcast partners from Singapore, Canada and Australia have come on board for its new kids’ sci-fi live-action series Stormworld. Along with Theatre Red, Vancouver-based Brightlight Pictures will co-produce …