World Screen

LONDON, February 16: British media regulator Ofcom has said that it will review BSkyB’s plan to launch a digital terrestrial service, which the platform announced last week. Sky’s proposed DTT offering will include sports, entertainment and news offerings. The new …

STOCKHOLM, February 16: Modern Times Group (MTG), which today reported improved revenues and profits for the fourth quarter and full year, has reached a deal to acquire 50 percent of Balkan Media Group (BMGL) from Apace Media for 11.6 million …

NEW YORK/LONDON/JOHANNESBURG, February 16: The History Channel U.K.—a joint venture of A&E Television Networks and BSkyB—will launch Crime & Investigation Network in Sub-Saharan Africa, including South Africa, with MultiChoice Africa on February 26. Crime & Investigation Network is the second …

LOS ANGELES, February 16: ABC’s Lost fell to a ratings low for a new episode this week, delivering 12.8 million viewers versus the time slot’s winner, CBS’s CSI: NY with 14.63 million viewers. This week’s viewership was down on the …

MILAN, February 16: Mediaset’s deputy chairman, Piersilvio Berlusconi, has said that the Italian media giant is interested in acquiring Endemol, “but the price remains a fundamental variable,” he told the Corriere della Sera newspaper. Berlusconi noted that the purchase of …

NEW YORK, February 15: Christy Spitzer, a former development manager at MTV, has joined Lion Television USA as its director of development. Based in New York and reporting to Tony Tackaberry, the EVP of Lion TV USA, Spitzer will be …

LONDON, February 15: Optimistic Media, the international TV and radio production division of Optimistic Entertainment, has appointed Paul Ging as Participation Radio and Television development producer and Lee Ali as head of technology. Ging, a trained journalist and BBC radio …

SYDNEY, February 15: Filming began this week in Mount Barker, South Australia, for the new six-part drama series Rain Shadow from Southern Star Entertainment for public broadcaster ABC TV. Rain Shadow is set in the dry land farming community of …

NEW YORK, February 15: Nick at Nite, Nickelodeon’s nighttime programming block, has added feature films to its sitcom-heavy schedule this month with the classic 1980s comedy adventures Crocodile Dundee and Planes, Trains & Automobiles. Crocodile Dundee and Planes, Trains & …

NEW YORK, February 15: ImaginAsian Entertainment has acquired the North American rights to co-distribute the award-winning Chinese drama The Road with Easternlight Films, with plans to roll out the film in theaters and then on DVD, VOD, pay TV and …