World Screen

TORONTO, September 21: As part of its continued roll out of broadband video, Global Television will be offering American prime-time programming as well as completed episodes from the network's Canadian news, drama, comedy and documentary programming, on its website. This …

SAN FRANCISCO, September 21: Yahoo! and Current TV, the media company founded by former Vice President Al Gore, are creating an online video programming venture. The new service, called Yahoo Current Network (video.yahoo.com/currenttv), will combine professional and user-generated video clips …

LOS ANGELES, September 21: Galan Entertainment and HBO will be working together to create a series of 90- to 120-second segments of mobile content geared to the Hispanic community. The series of mini telenovelas, entitled La Traductora (The Translator), is …

LOS ANGELES, September 21: MGM, the cable network G4, Brooksfilms Limited and Berliner Film Companie are teaming up to produce a TV series based on Mel Brooks’ comedy Spaceballs. G4, which targets a male audience and is available in 59 …

HONG KONG, September 21: MGM Channel Germany has renewed its agreement with Celestial Pictures for the pay-TV rights to 15 titles from Celestial’s Shaw Brothers library. The titles are for MGM Channel Germany’s Kung Fu Classics nights, which air in …

LONDON, September 21: In preparation for Teletubbies’ tenth anniversary, Ragdoll and BBC Worldwide have created a new joint venture called Ragdoll Worldwide. Besides exploiting the current catalogue of Ragdoll programming, the joint venture will launch two new exciting properties, In …

LOS ANGELES, September 21: Gary Scott Thompson, the creator of the NBC drama Las Vegas, is working on two new dramas, one for CBS and the other for NBC. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Protect and Serve for CBS is …

NORWALK, September 21: CABLEready has sold its real-crime investigation series Accident Investigator to Hungary and the Czech Republic’s Spektrum Channel, Sweden’s TV4 Fakta, and Thailand’s UBC. The host of the show, Rusty Haight, entered the Guinness Book of World Records …

TORONTO, September 21: Portfolio Entertainment has promoted Aron Dunn to the position of manager of creative development. Dunn joined Portfolio Entertainment in January as a development executive. In his new role, he will oversee the acquisition of new intellectual properties …

BURBANK, September 20: The Walt Disney Company predicts it will sell some $50 million worth of movies in the first year of its partnership with Apple Computer’s iTunes Music Store. In less than a week since Disney made available movies …