World Screen

LOS ANGELES: Elizabeth Guider surveyed a number of buyers about Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution’s new slate of series, which includes a host of comedies, among them Ryan Murphy’s The New Normal for NBC. There’s a reason the Hollywood heavyweights dominate …

LOS ANGELES: Italians who might have missed early seasons of CBS series like CSI or NCIS will, courtesy of a new streaming agreement, have their chance to play catch up. CBS Studios International and Telecom Italia unveiled in the midst …

LOS ANGELES: The Following has an instant foreign following—that was the open secret at Warner Bros.’ first marathon viewing session Monday for a 400-strong contingent of buyers in town for the annual L.A. Screenings. Judging from off-the-cuff conversations with two …

SYDNEY/NEW YORK: Watching video on conventional TV sets remains strong in Australia and is rising due to the increased use of Personal Video Recorders (PVRs) and high DTT penetration, according to the latest Australian Multi-Screen Report. PVRs are now in 47 …

LOS ANGELES: Indies zig, zag and do whatever else to stay in the game, reports Elizabeth Guider from the independent screenings at Century Plaza in Los Angeles over the weekend. "You have to be clever, consistent and grind, grind, grind." That’s …

LOS ANGELES: Putting the accent almost equally on its prime-time drama hopefuls like a moody suspenser called Red Widow and a Da Vinci Code-inspired mystery called Zero Hour, its Avengers-energized movie slate, and, for the first time, ABC Family’s slate of …

NEW YORK: A&E Network is the broadcast home for the world premiere of Joe Berlinger’s new documentary Paul Simon’s Graceland Journey: Under African Skies, which debuts on May 25.  The film travels with Simon back to South Africa 25 years …

WELLINGTON: The Commerce Commission has approved Sky and TVNZ’s joint venture Igloo, a new low-cost pay-TV service that is set to launch at the end of next month. Completing its investigation into the JV, the antitrust regulator found that the pay-TV market …

NEW YORK: Global video consumption on in-home computers ranks as high as TV usage for online consumers, according to Nielsen’s new multi-screen media survey. According to the report, Global Online Consumers and Multi-Screen Media: Today and Tomorrow, more than 80 percent …

NEW YORK: Rodolfo Domínguez, the commercial director of RTVE, says that Isabel is a key property the company is looking to push at the L.A. Screenings, as it captures "one of the most important periods of history…in 13 chapters."   …