World Screen

MUNICH, April 12: SevenOne International has licensed all 123 episodes of Sat.1’s telenovela Love is in the Air to Mediaset’s Canale 5 in Italy, for broadcast starting from April 16. Launching under the Italian title Cuori tra le nuvole, or …

LONDON, April 12: The BBC has picked up Distraction’s Dirty Rotten Cheater, an interactive game show format centered on cheating, for launch this summer. The BBC’s version of the game show will be hosted by Brian Conley. Nominated last year …

TOKYO, April 12: BabyTV, a channel for infants and toddlers under the age of 3, is expanding to Japan as a morning and afternoon block on News Broadcasting Japan’s FOXlife HD channel. BabyTV was first launched in Israel in 2003, …

LOS ANGELES, April 12: Kimora Lee Simmons, fashion designer, former model and the ex-wife of music industry mogul Russell Simmons, will be featured in a new weekly reality series on The Style Network, with the working title Kimora, debuting this …

NEW YORK, April 12: Bravo is shifting its focus to the 18-49 demographic from the 25 to 54 set and is bolstering its original programming slate with new shows like Hey Paula, featuring American Idol judge Paula Abdul. Bravo currently …

SANTA MONICA, April 12: Lionsgate is making a determined play for the Christian entertainment market in the U.S., securing a DVD deal with leading Christian publisher Thomas Nelson and acquiring three faith-based documentary titles. Thomas Nelson becomes the exclusive distributor …

LONDON, April 12: Sony Pictures Television International has signed a deal with VirginMega in France to make movies and TV shows available on an online VOD basis, and is adding content to the Alice broadband IPTV service. Virgin Stores, a …

NEW YORK, April 12: Universal Pictures has renewed its output deal with HBO in the U.S., agreeing to a long-term extension with the subscription pay service. The deal keeps Universal films on HBO well into the next decade, the two …

NEW YORK, April 12: NBC News has cancelled Don Imus’s talk show on MSNBC over racially charged comments he made about the women’s basketball team at Rutgers University. MSNBC simulcasts the Imus in the Morning Talk Show that originates on …

LONDON, April 12: Virgin Media has filed legal proceedings against BSkyB in the U.K.’s High Court in an attempt to resolve its dispute with the satellite platform over the loss of Sky’s basic channels on the Virgin Media cable service. …