World Screen

LOS ANGELES, April 26: National Lampoon has announced the launch of two new in-house distribution ventures—National Lampoon Releasing and National Lampoon Home Entertainment—with Tom Daniels, previously the CEO of MediaWorks, tapped to head the divisions as the president of worldwide …

LONDON, April 26: Following the success of the Most Haunted and Most Haunted Live series, LIVING has commissioned Antix Productions to produce a new 8×1-hour spin-off series, Most Haunted: Midsummer Murders, for premiere this summer. The new series will visit …

LONDON, April 26: Following MIPTV, FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) has secured a raft of new sales for series and specials featuring popular chef Jamie Oliver. Launched at MIPTV 2006, the 13×30-minute Jamie At Home, from Fresh One Productions, has now been …

BEIJING, April 26: Discovery Networks Asia has partnered with Olympic Games sponsor Visa for the launch of a new filmmaking initiative that will allow six Chinese directors to produce a series of vignettes on six former Olympic host cities for …

EL SEGUNDO, April 26: The daily soap Passions, which ends its eight-year run on NBC this September, has found a new home on satellite platform DIRECTV. The deal with NBC Universal Television Studio will see the daytime drama entering its …

MIAMI, April 26: Discovery Networks U.S. Hispanic Group has launched a weekly one-hour Discovery en Español-branded programming block on Azteca America. The block launched on April 22 and will air every Sunday at 10 p.m. Featured content includes original programming …

NEW YORK, April 26: A host of big-name advertisers, among them Microsoft, Sony Electronics and Unilever, have come on board as advertisers on Joost, the new Internet TV service from Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom. According to the …

MEXICO CITY, April 26: TV Azteca’s first quarter revenues slipped 5 percent to Ps. 1.78 billion ($162.8 million) while profit dropped 42 percent to Ps. 179 million ($16.4 million). "The results this quarter are not completely comparable with those of …

PHILADELPHIA, April 26: Comcast Corporation said today that its triple play bundle of cable TV, high-speed Internet and voice-over-IP telephone service had enabled another record-setting quarter, with revenues up 32 percent to $7.4 billion and net income increasing 80 percent …

NEW YORK, April 26: Andrea Wong, ABC Entertainment’s executive VP of alternative programming, specials and late-night, has been appointed president and CEO of Lifetime Entertainment Services, succeeding Betty Cohen, who is stepping down after two years with the female-targeted media …