World Screen

LOS ANGELES, March 7: Lifetime Television has ordered production on 13 episodes of the new one-hour comedic drama series Side Order of Life, scheduled to premiere this July on the network. The new drama joins Army Wives and State of …

LOS ANGELES, March 7: Fox Soccer Channel and its sister network, Fox Sports en Español, have secured the exclusive U.S. English- and Spanish-language rights to Serie A Italian football matches, beginning this August and running through 2009/2010. The rights were …

NEW YORK, March 7: Private equity firm Palladium Equity Partners has made an investment in Todobebe, which produces the Spanish-language parenting show Todobebe TV that airs on Hispanic broadcaster Telemundo. Headquartered in Miami, Todobebe provides parenting information through television, radio, …

TORONTO, March 7: CHUM Television will deliver content from its MuchMusic, SPACE and FashionTelevision channels to the new broadband content platform Joost. “CHUM has always been on the front lines of the multiplatform experience,” said Roma Khanna, the SVP of …

PARIS, March 7: For the fourth quarter of 2006, Vivendi’s revenues remained flat at 5.5 billion euros, with adjusted net income rising 25 percent to 505 million euros. For the full-year, meanwhile, revenues rose 3 percent to 20 billion euros, …

LOS ANGELES/MUNICH, March 7: Private equity firms KKR and Permira have competed their purchase of German Media Partners’ majority interest in ProSiebenSat.1 Media. The holding company Lavena Holding 4 GmbH now owns approximately 88 percent of the voting common stock …

BEIJING, March 7: UUSee, an online video platform in China whose content partners include CCTV, has raised $23.5 million in new financing, led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson Growth Fund and Highland Capital Partners, alongside Steamboard Ventures, the venture capital arm …

ALVISO/SEATTLE, March 7: Amazon Unbox on TiVo is now available to 1.5 million broadband-ready subscribers of the TiVo PVR service, allowing users to download content from a host of providers, including new additions Sony and MGM, for viewing on their …

NEW YORK, March 7: Private equity firms are expected to continue investing in the entertainment and media sectors this year, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers report, after a strong 2006, which saw 282 deals announced, worth investments of $114.6 billion. Its …

HENDERSONVILLE, March 6: Tennessee-based BlueHighways TV, a network that explores the people, stories, traditions and music of America, will launch its 24/7 linear channel on March 11 with Bresnan Communications, after previously being available solely on the platform’s on-demand service. …