World Screen

NEW YORK, August 1: Time Warner’s second-quarter revenues grew 5.2 percent to $1.1 billion, on revenues of $11 billion, a 6-percent gain, driven in part by the cable segment. Consolidated subscription revenues for the company were up 10 percent to …

NEW YORK, August 1: News Corporation has succeeded in its $5.6-billion takeover bid for Dow Jones & Company, with the Bancroft family, holding 37 percent of the publisher’s voting stock, agreeing to the buyout following the board’s approval last month. …

LONDON, July 31: Jason Thorp, senior VP and managing director of FX UK, has been promoted to managing director of Fox International Channels UK. The promotion comes on the heels of a 30-percent year-on-year audience share increase for FX. Hernán …

NEW YORK/LONDON, July 31: Pimp My Ride’s producing partners Bruce Beresford Redman and Rick Hurvitz have joined IMG Entertainment to develop and produce non-scripted television shows, branded programming and other multiplatform entertainment content. Beresford Redman and Hurvitz will report to …

BRIGHTON, July 31: British factual distributor Electric Sky has struck new deals on a host of lifestyle, travel and wildlife titles following its outing to DISCOP. The Meaning of Food (3×1 hour) by U.S. producer Pie In the Sky and …

WOODLAND HILLS, July 31: California-based Showcase Entertainment has licensed its live-action kids’ adventure series Flight 29 Down to Canada’s Family Channel. The 30×30-minute show, which has already launched on Family Channel’s weekend evening schedule, follows the adventures of a group …

DURBAN, July 31: Leonardo DiCaprio’s The 11th Hour, a feature-length documentary about the environment, will premiere in South Africa at the upcoming Durban Wild Talk Africa festival, taking place next month. The 4-day festival, kicking off August 27 at ICC …

MIAMI, July 31: Telemundo Internacional’s novela Second Chance has launched in prime time on Citizen Television in Kenya and on the Galaxy TV and Gotel TV networks in Nigeria, and is set to roll out on several additional stations in …

LONDON, July 31: The creators of the online serial drama phenomenon Lonelygirl15 are helping grow the Internet storytelling genre they pioneered with a new show, KateModern, in association with Bebo.com. The series is commissioned by and screened exclusively on Bebo.com, …

TORONTO, July 31: Beginning September 3, the Canadian animation channel TELETOON will boast a total of 34 shows with all new episodes, including 13 new series premiering on the network, 14 returning shows with new seasons and seven ongoing series. …