World Screen

LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK, September 10: Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures Television (SPT) have given the greenlight to Culver Entertainment, a SPT subsidiary, to produce an additional 13 half-hour episodes of the new The Spectacular Spider-Man animated television series, bringing the …

LONDON, September 10: Distraction has licensed the Canadian scripted comedy format Serial Frank, nominated for seven 2007 Gemini Awards, to NBC in the U.S. Originally produced by Marc Grenier from the Locomotion Group, Distraction launched Serial Frank at MIPTV in …

SINGAPORE/HONG KONG, September 10: Disney Channel Asia’s debut of High School Musical 2 ranked as the most-watched telecast on its premiere day in Malaysia and Singapore, defeating terrestrial and pay-TV channels among the youth demographic in both markets. In Singapore, …

LOS ANGELES, September 10: Showtime has ordered 12 new half-hour episodes of its hit comedy series Californication, slated for premiere in summer 2008. Californication centers on novelist Hank Moody, played by David Duchovny (The X-Files), whose obsession with telling the …

BEVERLY HILLS, September 10: Michael Eisner’s new-media studio Vuguru has secured a raft of new distribution deals with digital media platforms like MySpace and YouTube for Prom Queen: Summer Heat, the spinoff of the Emmy-nominated broadband series Prom Queen. Vuguru …

SEOUL, September 10: KBS World, the international channel operated by Korean pubcaster KBS, is now available in 250 hotels in China via SINOSAT, joining just 34 other foreign channels that have been granted access to the satellite by the Chinese …

TORONTO, September 10: Jeff Sagansky, a former top executive at Paxson, CBS and Sony, has been named the co-chairman of the board of directors for Peace Arch Entertainment Group. Sagansky will serve alongside Peace Arch’s former chairman, and now co-chairman, …

CUPERTINO, September 10: Apple today announced that it has sold its one millionth iPhone, just 74 days after its introduction on June 29. "One million iPhones in 74 days—it took almost two years to achieve this milestone with iPod," said …

AMSTERDAM, September 10: At IBC today, UBC Broadband and Sling Media unveiled plans to roll the Slingbox device out to UPC Digital TV customers in the Netherlands. The Slingbox allows UPC customers to remotely control their digital Mediabox and watch …

STOCKHOLM, September 10: Modern Times Group is aligning with Strong Media Group (SMG)—the owner of Strong International, a leading provider of digital TV set-top box decoders—to launch the first digital premium DTH operator in Ukraine, under its Viasat brand. Viasat …