World Screen

LOS ANGELES, February 2: PorchLight Entertainment has picked up the North American television rights and all international distribution rights to the feature film The Ultimate Gift. The film will be released by FOXFAITH—Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment’s distribution label for …

NEW YORK, February 2: TV Land will premiere the second season of its one-on-one comedy forum Sit Down Comedy with David Steinberg online on its website on February 19, two days before its television launch. The premiere will air on …

SYDNEY, February 2: The launch of NBC Universal International Television Distribution’s Heroes on Seven Network this week delivered a whopping 57-percent share with 2.1 million viewers, the broadcaster’s highest audience for a drama debut since Lost premiered two years ago. …

LONDON, February 2: Bob Geldof’s production company, Ten Alps, has signed a deal to develop a proposal for a global broadband “Peace Channel,” with Brian Lapping on board as one of the project’s architects. Slated for a 2008 rollout, the …

PARIS, February 2: Marketing expert Joseph Jaffe and Philip Rosedale, the founder of Linden Lab—the company behind the 3-D online society Second Life—have joined RTL Group CEO Gerhard Zeiler in the lineup of keynote speakers for MIPTV featuring MILIA, taking …

NEW DELHI, February 2: The Indian government has ordered the country’s commercial broadcasters to share with pubcaster Doordarshan coverage of any sports that are “in the national interest.” The ordinance in the cricket-mad nation comes a month before the start …

LOS ANGELES, February 2: Promax/BDA has named marketing consultant Lee Hunt as its interim managing director, with the organization’s president and CEO, Jim Chabin, on an indefinite leave of absence. The branding and marketing trade group declined to release any …

ATLANTA/BOSTON, February 2: Turner Broadcasting System has agreed to pay $1 million to cover the costs related to the security alert in Boston sparked by a Cartoon Network marketing campaign on Wednesday, local reports indicate. Highways and bridges were shut …

NEW YORK, February 2: YouTube was today told to remove about 100,000 clips of content from Viacom-owned networks, after the two companies failed to reach a deal. According to Viacom, these clips have generated about 1.2 billion video streams. "After …

LUXEMBOURG, February 2: RTL Group today confirmed speculation that it is offloading its 33-percent interest in Portuguese media outfit Grupo Media Capital to Grupo Prisa for 206 million euros in cash. Prisa, which currently owns 33 percent of Media Capital, …