World Screen

BURBANK, January 24: In the hotly contested Monday 9 p.m. slot, with NBC’s Heroes and FOX’s 24 going head to head, the winner was in fact CBS’s Two and a Half Men, which pulled in 15.85 million viewers. Heroes, however, …

LOS ANGELES, January 23: Playboy Entertainment Group has hired Todd Schwartz as VP of programming for Playboy TV and promoted Michael Spierer to the position of VP of programming and acquisitions for adult networks. Both will report to Bryan Postlethwait, …

STOCKHOLM, January 23: Magnus Ringmar will take up the position of managing director of MTV Mastiff, Zodiak Television’s Swedish subsidiary, this spring. Ringmar replaces Louise Juel, who recently became VP at Zodiak Television World in Copenhagen. He was previously head …

NEW YORK, January 23: The entertainment website Usmagazine.com has partnered with Veoh Networks to create a branded channel on the Veoh website. Set to launch in February, the channel will be the exclusive “Celebrity Channel” on Veoh.com, and will be …

PARK CITY, January 23: Albie Hecht’s Shine Global has launched a semi-annual contest designed to promote and fund the development of documentary films, following the success of its first film, War/Dance. Shine’s first fully financed documentary film explores a group …

LONDON, January 23: Portman Film & Television has acquired the international distribution rights to Party Animals, a new eight-part drama series scheduled to air on BBC Two from January 31. Produced by World Productions, the makers of This Life and …

ATLANTA, January 23: Adult Swim, Cartoon Network’s late-night adult-skewing block, will launch two original live action-series on February 11. Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job is a 15-minute sketch show starring the comedy duo Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim. …

NEW YORK, January 23: Rainbow Media-owned VOOM HD Networks’ Equator HD has inked a deal with Media International Corporation (MICO) for more than 20 hours of high-definition television content from Japanese public broadcaster NHK. Equator HD has acquired seasons three …

LONDON, January 23: In advance of the launch of their broadband portal joiningthedots.tv in February, MercuryMedia and Aggregator have licensed 50 films from a wide variety of international factual producers and distributors. Titles were licensed from distributors such as Roco …

LONDON, January 23: MTV Networks International and retailer The Body Shop have teamed up for the launch of Spray to Change Attitudes, a multimedia HIV and AIDS prevention campaign spanning 44 countries and reaching millions of under-25 year olds. In …