World Screen

LOS ANGELES: Azteca America has named Marlene Braga the VP of programming, responsible for day-to-day programming and collaboration on long-term strategy with the senior VP of programming, production and marketing. Prior to her new role, Braga was the VP of …

LOS ANGELES: MGM has appointed Steve Stark to the position of president of television production from his role as the president and executive producer of Steve Stark Productions. Stark will oversee all aspects of television and content development and production …

TEL AVIV: NBC is to launch Who’s Still Standing?, the U.S. version of the Armoza Formats game show Still Standing, with a week-long strip of new episodes from December 19 to December 22, taking a regular broadcast slot from December …

LONDON/DUBAI: Production is to start on Middle Eastern versions of the hit game shows Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!, following Sony Pictures Television’s SPT Arabia securing its first non-scripted format deals in the region. SPT Arabia will produce 240 half-hour …

LOS ANGELES: FOX’s Animation Domination lineup is to include an additional nine episodes of Bob’s Burgers, set to premiere in midseason. Bob’s Burgers, a Twentieth Century Fox Television production, follows a third-generation restauranteur as he runs his own burger joint, …

LOS ANGELES: FX has placed a second-season order for 13 new episodes of the Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk series American Horror Story. From Twentieth Century Fox Television, American Horror Story is off to a solid start for the network, …

LOS ANGELES: Third-quarter home-entertainment spending in the U.S. was up 5 percent, marking the first increase in figures since 2008’s first quarter, according to a new report from Digital Entertainment Group. Total spending in the U.S. on home entertainment reached …

EL SEGUNDO: The Fox Networks bouquet of channels will remain on DirecTV after the two managed to reach a new carriage deal, narrowly averting a programming blackout. More than two dozen Fox cable networks, including FX and a number of …

SINGAPORE: The Media Development Authority has issued a new set of guidelines governing contracts between pay-TV platforms and subscribers that include a limit on how much service providers can charge customers for early subscription terminations. The new guidelines go into …

HONG KONG: There are now 420 million multichannel TV connections in the Asia Pacific, more than the rest of the world combined, CASBAA announced at its annual convention, which officially kicked off in Hong Kong today. The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia’s …