World Screen

ATLANTA, August 9: Cartoon Network’s late-night Adult Swim block is bolstering its anime slate this fall with two new acquisitions: Trinity Blood and Bleach. Trinity Blood is based on the serial novels of Sunao Yoshida. Set in a future world …

BURBANK, August 9: NBC has inked a deal with BBC Worldwide Productions for You’re the One That We Want, a talent competition for midseason that will search for the leads for a new Broadway production of the classic musical Grease. …

SCOTTSDALE, August 9: A new report from Arizona-based In-Stat predicts that the U.S. market for Portable Media Players (PMP) will hit 5 million by the end of the year, driven in part by the popularity of the Video iPod. While …

ATLANTA, August 9: Original content from Turner Broadcasting System’s TNT network will be made available on DramaVision, the channel’s new broadband platform that launches August 15 with the first-ever broadband streaming of Steven Spielberg’s acclaimed mini-series Into the West. Housed …

STUDIO CITY, August 9: For the second quarter, the net loss at Hallmark Channel’s parent company Crown Media Holdings soared from $56.2 million to $227.4 million, while the half-year loss more than doubled from $107.1 million to $274.7 million. Revenue …

LOS ANGELES, August 9: Mark Burnett is teaming with Grammy Award-winning music producer Emilio Estefan to develop and produce multiplatform content for the U.S. Hispanic market, kicking off with a “Latin-inspired” workout video. This new venture, entitled Estefan/Burnett Entertainment, will …

NEW YORK/CUPERTINO, August 9: Several shows from the A&E Network, The Biography Channel and The History Channel are now available on the iTunes Music Store, with Apple’s digital storefront now offering more than 200 TV titles. The content includes Criss …

LONDON, August 9: With revenues up just 3 percent to £1.1 billion, ITV plc still recorded a 9-percent increase in operating profit to £163 million for the first half of the year, and a 12-percent rise in profit before tax …

NEW YORK, August 9: Double-digit percentage increases at News Corporation’s filmed entertainment, television, cable network programming and DTH segments led the company to a full-year profit of $2.3 billion, on revenues of $25.3 billion. For the quarter, meanwhile, revenues rose …

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO, August 9: The online asset buying spree at MTV Networks continued today with a $200-million deal to acquire Atom Entertainment, a portfolio of four leading online destinations for casual games, short films and video. Atom’s destinations include …