World Screen

LOS ANGELES, July 16: USA Network has announced the series pickup of a new action comedy with the working title To Love & Die, as well as the slate of projects in development for 2008. To Love & Die stars …

BEVERLY HILLS, July 16: VH1 has launched the new scripted half-hour comedy I Hate My 30’s across a variety of online, mobile, on-demand and digital-to-own platforms prior to its on-air prime-time premiere on July 26, and has announced plans for …

LOS ANGELES, July 16: The everyday life of hip-hop recording artist, producer and actor Snoop Dogg will be the focus of a new half-hour reality series that will launch later this year on E! Entertainment Television. The new series will …

BEVERLY HILLS, July 16: The SCI FI Channel has unveiled a new development slate for the 2007-2008 season that includes an eight week prime-time series of exclusive new 2-to-3-minute Battlestar Galactica shorts, and has announced plans for an on-air horror …

SAUSALITO, July 16: Sony Pictures Entertainment is relaunching Grouper, the user-generated content site it acquired last August, as Crackle, a streaming entertainment network that aims to find, and develop, emerging talent for online, TV and film projects. "Crackle's irreverent editorial …

LONDON, July 16: Private equity firm Providence is said to be gearing up to make a bid for British quad-play provider Virgin Media, which announced earlier this month that it was exploring strategic alternatives for the company, including a possible …

PARIS, July 16: Seven industry leaders are slated to deliver keynote speeches at MIPCOM this October, including Leslie Moonves, CBS Corporation’s president and CEO, and Emilio Azcárraga, the chairman and CEO of Grupo Televisa. Moonves, this year’s MIPCOM Personality of …

LOS ANGELES, July 16: Ben Silverman, the new co-chairman of NBC Entertainment and Universal Media Studios, issued a raft of announcements at the Television Critics Association (TCA) press tour today, including tweaks to NBC’s fall schedule and several new programming …

MEXICO CITY, July 16: Grupo Televisa has received approval to acquire 49 percent of Mexico’s second-largest cable platform, Cablemas, on the condition that it makes its free TV channels available to all pay-TV operators in the country. A Bloomberg report, …

NEW YORK/FAIRFIELD, July 16: Despite posting a 6-percent drop in revenues, NBC Universal’s profit for the second quarter rose 2 percent to $904 million. The company’s revenues fell 6 percent to $3.6 billion for the quarter, and 15 percent for …