World Screen

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 29: As debates continue on the topic of childhood obesity, a new study on TV food advertising released by the Kaiser Family Foundation shows that TV shows specifically designed for children under 12 have the highest proportion …

REDMOND, March 29: Content from A&E Network, ADV Films, National Geographic and TotalVid.com have all joined the Xbox LIVE content lineup, while Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment have added HD movie titles to the service. The new partners …

SILVER SPRING, March 29: Discovery Communications has signed a non-binding letter of intent to redeem Cox Communications’ 25-percent stake in the company in a $1.275 billion deal that sees Discovery giving up its ownership of Travel Channel. In the proposed …

NEW YORK, March 28: VH1 has renewed its original broadband comedic series Home Purchasing Club for a second season of eight new weekly episodes, which will be available exclusively on demand on its broadband channel VSPOT and its companion syndicated …

LONDON, March 28: Entertainment Rights (ER) has announced that its top-rated BBC children’s series Postman Pat will premiere in the U.S. this fall as part of qubo, the multiplatform children’s service on NBC, Telemundo and ION; and that production has …

ENCINO, March 28: Documentary distributor Solid Entertainment has secured the international broadcast rights for The Real Lost World, a documentary that aired on Animal Planet about the Venezuelan site that inspired the classic novel The Lost World. Solid Entertainment plans …

SILVER SPRING, March 28: Bindi Irwin, the daughter of the late The Crocodile Hunter star Steve Irwin, will be featured in Bindi: The Jungle Girl, a new weekly series debuting on the Discovery Kids Channel on June 9, and will …

LONDON/NEW YORK, March 28: The History Channel will launch in Iceland on the Skjarinn ADSL platform and cable system, broadcasting in English, on April 1. The channel’s launch in Iceland resulted from an agreement reached between Skjarinn and The History …

SCHAUMBURG, March 28: Motorola, Inc has made an equity investment in GoTV Networks, a made-for-mobile television provider, through Motorola Ventures, its strategic venture capital arm. Terms of the investment were not disclosed. GoTV Networks is the first on-demand made-for-mobile television …

LONDON, March 28: Jetix U.K. has made two acquisitions to boost its comedy lineup and has also put a new programming team in place to support programming director Dominic Gardiner. The first of the two acquired comedies is the Australian …