World Screen

NEW YORK, August 8: Lifetime Television’s upcoming fall slate includes the original movie The Mermaid Chair with Kim Basinger, the new reality series Off the Leash and the FremantleMedia North America novela Bianca. The Mermaid Chair, adapted from the bestseller …

CHICAGO, August 8: Playboy Enterprises has reported a second quarter loss of $3.3 million, versus last year’s profit of $4.6 million, on revenues that were down $2.3 million to $80.5 million. At the entertainment segment, revenues were down 3 percent …

NEW DELHI, August 8: Tata Sky, the long-awaited DTH platform owned by the Indian conglomerate TATA and News Corporation’s Asian arm STAR, launched today in 300 cities across India. The venture, 80 percent owned by TATA and 20 percent by …

LONDON, August 8: Production has begun on Five Days, a five-part crime thriller that the BBC is co-producing with HBO. Slated to air on BBC One, the limited series, penned by Gwyneth Hughes, tracks five days following the abduction of …

MOUNTAIN VIEW/LOS ANGELES, August 8: Google will be the exclusive search and keyword-targeted advertising sales provider for Fox Interactive Media’s network of web properties, including MySpace, as part of a multiyear agreement that will see Google making a guaranteed revenue …

LONDON, August 8: After weeks of speculation, ITV’s chief executive, Charles Allen, has announced that he will step down on October 1, with finance director John Cresswell tapped as interim CEO until a permanent successor has been chosen. Allen has …

EL SEGUNDO, August 8: Second quarter profit at The DIRECTV Group more than doubled to $458.7 million, on revenues of $3.52 billion, a 10-percent gain on the year-ago period. For the first half of the year, meanwhile, revenues rose from …

CHICAGO, August 7: Charles Hirschhorn, the founder and former CEO of the G4 video-gaming network, has been elected to the board of directors at Playboy Enterprises. Hirschhorn is currently the founding partner of Fountain Productions, which produces theatrical motion pictures, …

BRISTOL, August 8: Tigress Productions has been commissioned by British broadcaster Five to produce Game Reserve Diaries, a series chronicling the daily activities at a game preserve in Kenya. The series will be composed of ten 45-minute episodes and will …

NEW YORK, August 7: iD Distribution has licensed Farther Than The Eye Can See, a documentary from Rainbow Media’s Rush HD channel, to the BBC. The special will air on August 13 at 9 p.m. as part of the BBC’s …