World Screen

LOS ANGELES, August 23: USA Network has ordered a fourth season of 13 episodes of its critically acclaimed original drama The 4400 for launch next summer. Production is slated to begin in Vancouver in early 2007. The show, from CBS …

HONG KONG, August 23: EchoStar chairman Charlie Ergen, Liberty Global CEO Mike Fries and Hunan Satellite chief Wei Wen Bin, are among the executives slated to take part in the Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia’s annual CASBAA Convention, …

WINNIPEG, August 23: Granada Media Group will join CanWest Global Communications Corp. in offloading its stake in Ireland’s TV3 network to funds managed by Doughty Hanson & Co, with the transaction expected to close at the end of this month. …

BURBANK, August 23: A range of ABC News videos will be offered on the iTunes Music Store in the categories of “ABC News Specials," "The Day It Happened" and "Celebrity Flashback." Videos will be priced at $1.99 each. "We are …

NEW YORK, August 23: The English- and Spanish-language kids’ programming venture from ION Media Networks, NBC Universal, Scholastic, Classic Media/Big Idea and Nelvana, called qubo, is set to launch as a block on NBC and Telemundo on September 9. It …

LOS ANGELES, August 23: Paramount Pictures is ending its 14-year relationship with Tom Cruise, with Sumner Redstone, the chairman of Viacom, saying that the star’s off-screen behavior was “not acceptable” to the studio. However, according to the New York Times, …

CULVER CITY, August 23: Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is shelling out $65 million for Grouper, a user-generated video website. Under the terms of the deal, the Sausalito-based site, which enables its members to watch, share and create video online, will …

NEW YORK, August 23: According to research firm Datamonitor, there will be 187 million digital TV homes in Europe and the U.S. by 2010, with Europe expected to overtake the U.S. by the end of this year. The report, The …

TV Kids Weekly, August 22, 2006 NAME: Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs ORIGIN: The animated TV series is based on popular children’s books from the U.K. CREATORS: Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs was originally drawn and …

BURBANK, August 22: NBC has appointed Vivi Zigler to the newly created position of executive VP of NBC Digital Entertainment & New Media. Zigler will now be responsible for leading the NBC.com digital team in strategic efforts to further connect …