World Screen

TORONTO, August 3: The Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, slated for April 20 to 29, 2007, in Toronto, will showcase documentary titles from Central and Eastern Europe in its National Spotlight program, and features from Brazil in its Made …

LONDON, August 3: Flextech has made its biggest-ever secondary rights acquisition, picking up Kudos Film and Television’s Life on Mars for the fall lineup on its male-targeted Bravo network. The drama, produced for the BBC, sees Sam Tyler, a driven …

LONDON, August 3: RDF is to acquire The Foundation TV Productions, producer of The Basil Brush Show, for £4 million, payable in cash and RDF shares. The deal includes a deferred consideration, up to a maximum of £6 million, dependent …

NEW YORK, August 3: MTV Networks’ gay and lesbian-targeted Logo has picked up the original reality series Jacob & Joshua: Nemesis Rising, following these identical twin brothers as they struggle to make it in the music business and come out …

ATLANTA, August 3: In a first for a U.S. golf event, select coverage of this month’s 2006 PGA Championship will be offered up on PGA.com, as part of a deal with broadcast partner Turner Network Television (TNT). PGA.com will deliver …

NEW YORK, August 3: SCI FI Channel has acquired the rights to a package of TV movies, mini-series and series from CBS Paramount Domestic Television, including Star Trek: Enterprise and last season’s cancelled Threshold. Enterprise, which ran for four seasons …

AMSTERDAM, August 3: The chellomedia digital channel Sport1 has secured the exclusive live rights to the English Football League Championship and League Cup for a period of three years. Sport1 already has the rights to the Premier League and the …

CULVER CITY, August 3: Just one week since securing an IPTV video on demand deal in Germany, Sony Pictures Television International has entered into an agreement with the European digital film distributor Arts Alliance Media (AAM) to allows users to …

HAMILTON, August 3: Central European Media Enterprises today released its second quarter and half-year results, with revenues up 38 percent and 71 percent, respectively. It also announced the resignation of its COO, Robert E. Burke, effective October 1. Burke's duties …

NEW YORK, August 3: CBS Corporation’s net profit for the second quarter of this year rose from $753.8 million to $781.7 million despite a 1-percent fall in revenues to $3.48 billion. "I am very pleased with CBS Corporation's early performance …