World Screen

SINGAPORE: The Public Broadcasters International (PBI) annual event kicked off yesterday in Singapore, with Paula Kerger, the president and CEO of PBS, delivering the keynote speech and Teo Ming Kian, the chairman of MediaCorp, welcoming attendees. In his welcome speech, …

BURBANK: Daniel Burke, who served as president and CEO of Capital Cities/ABC, has passed away at the age of 82. Burke died at his home in Rye, New York. He is survived by his wife of 54 years, Harriet "Bunny" …

ZURICH: FIFA has completed broadcast deals worth $1.85 billion in the last week for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, having recently awarded rights to SBS in Australia, Bell Media in Canada and IMC for the Caribbean. The $1.85 billion …

PARIS: The Canal+ Group has entered into exclusive negotiations with ITI and the TVN Group "to create a strategic partnership in Poland." ITI Holdings, which owns a 56-percent share of TVN, is aligning with Vivendi’s Canal+ for the partnership talks. …

BURBANK/TORONTO: Disney/ABC Television Group and Corus Entertainment are bringing ABC Spark, a 24-hour millennial-focused channel, to Canada starting in spring 2012. ABC Spark will serve as a destination for Canada’s young adult millennial viewers. It will build on the foundation …

LOS ANGELES: Showtime has ordered a second season of its new drama series Homeland consisting of 12 new one-hour episodes, which will begin production in spring 2012.   The series, which debuted as the network’s highest-rated freshman drama series ever, …

LONDON: BBC Worldwide has named Philipp Schmid the co-production manager of factual for Germany and France. The newly created role meets the demand for locally tailored programs in France and Germany, and Schmid will be responsible for seeking out and …

NEW YORK: CBS has given full season orders for its new dramas Unforgettable and Person of Interest. Unforgettable, the season’s number one new drama in viewers, stars Poppy Montgomery, Dylan Walsh, Michael Gaston, Kevin Rankin and Daya Vaidya. It features …

NEW YORK: Comedy Central has renewed its single-camera comedy Workaholics for a third season. The series, starring Blake Anderson, Adam Devine, Anders Holm and Kyle Newacheck from the sketch-comedy group Mail Order Comedy, is about recent college graduates who work …

LOS ANGELES: The new original adventure series Da Vinci’s Demons, written by David Goyer and developed and produced by BBC Worldwide Productions, has been greenlit by Starz Entertainment. The eight-episode series, written by Goyer—co-writer of the films Batman Begins and …