World Screen

NEW YORK, January 3: Top Chef, Bravo’s top-rated search for culinary talent, has been renewed for a third season, with a nationwide casting call beginning this month. “The second season of Top Chef has outperformed even our highest expectations both …

TORONTO, January 3: Corus Entertainment has launched SCREAM Extreme on Demand, a VOD platform for SCREAM, the horror, suspense and thriller network it operates in partnership with Alliance Atlantis Broadcasting. Corus Entertainment already operates on-demand offerings for Movie Central, YTV …

NEW YORK/SEOUL, January 3: Home Box Office has teamed with SK Telecom for a mobile VOD service in Korea featuring full episodes of the premium network’s key original series. The service, which launched December 22, features full episodes of Sex …

LOS ANGELES, January 3: The Viacom-owned BET network has acquired all 50 episodes of The Wire, HBO’s critically acclaimed drama series. Each episode will air on the basic cable network in a 90-minute block. The first three episodes will be …

DENVER, January 3: Liberty Global has completed its acquisition of Czech cable platform Karneval and the sale of its Belgian cable business UPC Belgium. Karneval, the second largest cable operator in the Czech Republic, was acquired for 322.5 million euros …

NEW YORK, January 3: News Corporation’s planned business news network has secured a distribution agreement with Time Warner Cable, the second-biggest cable platform in the U.S., according to Dow Jones Newswires. The proposed Fox Business Channel is intended to take …

NEW YORK, January 3: Apple Computer, Google and Napster are being sued for patent infringement by Intertainer, a now defunct online video download service, wire reports indicate. The suit was filed Friday in a Texas court. It alleges that the …

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ARLINGTON, January 2: Jason Seiken has been appointed as PBS' senior VP of interactive, reporting to chief content officer John Boland and based at the PBS headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. Seiken will oversee PBS's new media content and services, including …

TORONTO, January 2: Peace Arch Entertainment Group has completed the acquisition of the independent film companies Castle Hill Productions and Dream LLC. The deal gives Peach Arch the rights to some 500 titles, as well as a U.S. distribution and …