World Screen

BURLINGAME, August 29: The San Francisco-based start-up airline Virgin America has partnered with Sundance Channel to bolster its inflight entertainment system, Red, with a custom-made channel. Sundance Channel for Virgin America will be exclusively programmed for the airline, allowing passengers …

LONDON/SYDNEY: BBC Worldwide Australasia has licensed a raft of drama, natural history and entertainment programming to Australia’s ABC TV, including the new 6×50-minute thriller Jekyll. Produced by Hartswood Films, Jekyll is a contemporary take on Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel, …

LOS ANGELES, August 29: Program Partners and Merv Griffin Entertainment (MGE) have cleared the game show Merv Griffin’s Crosswords as a fall syndicated strip in all 50 of the top 50 markets, bringing its reach to over 92 percent of …

NEW YORK, August 29: The second season of VH1’s hit reality series Scott Baio is 45: and Single will begin production this fall, slated for a nine-episode run with six 30-minute episodes and three one-hour episodes. The new season picks …

NEW YORK, August 29: The season finale of Lifetime Television’s Army Wives on Sunday, August 26, was the network’s most-watched original series telecast in history, attracting 4.1 million people aged 2 and older. The season finale garnered a season-high 3.4 …

PARIS, August 29: Universal Pictures International Entertainment (UPIE) and Studio Canal, a subsidiary of the CANAL+ Group, have created Universal Studio Canal Video GIE, a joint venture to market and distribute home-entertainment titles in France. Effective January 2008, the joint …

MUNICH, August 29: Playhouse Disney and Toon Disney will be included in Premiere’s new Premiere Star lineup, launching September 1. Playhouse Disney, targeted at preschoolers aged 2 to 5, promotes child development by offering educational content and encouraging viewer participation. …

LONDON, August 29: Content from ABC Studios, Disney Channel, MTV, Nickelodeon and Paramount Comedy have been added to the iTunes Store in the U.K. for £1.89 an episode. Titles available include, from ABC Studios, Lost, Desperate Housewives, Grey’s Anatomy and …

GENEVA, August 29: The European Broadcasting Union’s Eurovision TV unit has partnered with BBC One for the first-ever Eurovision Dance Contest, slated to take place this September at the BBC Television Centre, with several pubcasters from the region participating and …

SYDNEY, August 28: Tim Brooke-Hunt has been tapped to fill the newly created role of executive head of children’s at ABC TV in Australia, effective September 12. Working with some of Australia’s leading production companies, including Beyond International, New World …