World Screen

SAN FRANCISCO, September 20: Virgin America and VH1 have partnered to offer the first inflight on-demand music-video library for U.S. routes to New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington D.C. and Las Vegas. The Virgin America-VH1 music-video library, available on …

NEW YORK, September 20: USA Network has ordered a third season of 16 episodes of its one-hour drama Psych, which became the top-rated new cable show last year. Psych has ratcheted up successful ratings since its debut in the summer …

LONDON, September 20: UKTV is evolving UKTV G2 into Dave, a male-skewing comedy and factual entertainment channel, launching on all digital platforms in the U.K., including Freeview, on October 15. The idea behind the channel’s new name is that “everybody …

NEW YORK, September 20: MTV has launched Think.MTV.com in beta today, a new online community dedicated to stimulating youth activism. The online community was founded with the help of financial support and expertise from the Case Foundation, Bill & Melinda …

BURBANK, September 20: NBC.com has launched a new service, "NBC Direct," which will allow users to download and view its popular prime-time and late-night programming on their desktops for up to one week after broadcast. The first version of this …

BURBANK/DULLES, September 20: Disney-ABC Television Group has reached a deal with AOL to make full-length episodes of ABC prime-time shows available for free the day after their linear broadcast, via a co-branded version of ABC.com’s broadband player on AOL Video. …

LONDON, September 20: According to a new report released by British media regulatory authority Ofcom, almost 85 percent of U.K. homes now have digital television on their main set, with household takeup of digital television—via Freeview, digital satellite or cable …

NEW YORK, September 20: Former CBS News anchorman Dan Rather has filed a $70-million lawsuit against CBS Corporation, CBS' former parent company Viacom, and top executives Leslie Moonves, Sumner Redstone and Andrew Heyward, claiming that the executives openly violated his …

NEW YORK, September 19: Classic Media, an Entertainment Rights subsidiary, has appointed Lara Dalch, previously with Cartoon Network, as the senior director of brand development and promotions for its operations in North America. Based at the company’s North American headquarters …

LONDON, September 19: Cake Distribution has secured sales for its 26×30-minute animated comedy-adventure series King Arthur’s Disasters to BBC Kids in Canada and Nickelodeon in Australia. King Arthur’s Disasters follows the animated adventures of King Arthur on his quests to …