World Screen

LOS ANGELES, November 6: Alicia Witt, Matthew Settle, Scott Bakula and Talia Shire will star in Blue Smoke, a TV movie for Lifetime, from Peter Guber's Mandalay Television and Stephanie Germain Productions, based on the Nora Roberts novel of the …

PARIS, November 6: Incroyable Talent, the French adaptation of FremantleMedia’s talent show Got Talent, delivered 5 million viewers for M6 on its first night, a 43-percent improvement on the channel’s prime-time average. The viewing figures make Incroyable Talent the second …

LONDON, November 6: ITV has acquired from Southern Star International the rights to the police drama Liverpool 1 for ITV3. The police drama is based in Liverpool, following the plainclothes department of Merseyside CID. “We are thrilled to be bringing …

LONDON, November 6: By the end of October 2006, the Disney Channel original movie High School Musical had reached more than 25 million unique viewers across Europe, based on its broadcast on the Disney Channels, as well as on ProSieben, …

ARLINGTON, November 6: PBS will air The War, Ken Burns’ highly anticipated seven-part documentary series about the Second World War that he has spent the last six years working on, in September 2007, it was announced today. The series, directed …

NEW YORK, November 6: Quincy Smith has been named president of CBS Corporation’s new division, CBS Interactive, overseeing the company's interactive strategy and its implementation across CBS Corporation's various businesses. Reporting directly to CBS Corporation’s president and CEO, Leslie Moonves, …

RICHMOND, November 6: The 21st Annual Broadcast Gala Awards Show over the weekend named Slings & Arrows, from Rhombus Media, as best dramatic series, while Muse Entertainment’s Human Trafficking won the mini-series category and Vérité Films Inc. and 335 Productions’ …

NEW YORK, November 6: Univision’s broadcast of the 7th Annual Latin Grammy Awards on Thursday night reached more than 11.3 million viewers and was also the number one program in its time period in a number of major markets among …

BEIJING, November 6: The Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) has joined the European Broadcasting Union in calling on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to reconsider changes in its events schedule for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. The IOC last week announced …

SEATTLE, November 6: A new study published today in the November issue of Pediatrics, the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, has found that educational television programs can be beneficial to toddlers and preschoolers in broadening their knowledge, …