World Screen

SILVER SPRING: Discovery Networks International is launching Travel & Living Channel (TLC) in Latin America, set to go live on November 1 in 38 countries across the region. Formerly Discovery Travel & Living, TLC will reach 26 million subscribers in Latin …

ISTANBUL: The Turkish media conglomerate Doğan Media Group has sold its Star TV station to the Doğuş Media Group. Dogan sold the entertainment channel to Dogus, owners of one of the country’s largest banks, Garanti. Dogus paid $327 million for …

WARSAW: More than 5 million households in Poland have at least two TV sets, according to a survey by TGI MillwardBrown, while 1 million have three or more. The number of households with at least three TV sets has doubled …

BOSTON: According to new research from Strategy Analytics, consumers who use personal devices such as tablets and smartphones while watching TV are ignoring commercials almost completely. The report, Multi-Screen User Behaviors in the Home, finds that high-impact scenes on television divert …

LONDON: Zodiak Kids is launching a Little Princess five-month live theater tour beginning February 2012. West End producers M4 Entertainment, BOS and PW Productions will present the U.K. theatrical premiere of Little Princess: I Want to Celebrate! in a tour …

NEW YORK: Syfy has ordered six one-hour episodes of the new unscripted series School Spirits, with Mark Burnett signed on as an executive producer. The series features true ghost stories of hauntings that have happened at schools across the country …

NEW YORK: American Greetings Properties (AGP) and licensing agents Cookie Jar Entertainment and Medialink have signed two major deals for Strawberry Shortcake in China, expanding the brand into the apparel and publishing markets with new licensees. As the first publishing …

NEW YORK: Spike TV has ordered a fourth season of the original series 1000 Ways to Die from Original Productions. The fourth season, consisting of 13 episodes, will premiere in March 2012. The series features some of the most outrageous …

MUNICH: SevenOne International has sold 10 one-hour episodes of The Indestructibles to the new German pay-TV channel Spiegel TV Wissen, which went on air October 4. The series is produced by Storyhouse Productions and has already aired on National Geographic’s …

VANCOUVER: Rainmaker Entertainment is partnering with Jane Startz to develop and produce two family feature films. The two films will be produced by Startz and Catherine Winder, the president and executive producer of Rainmaker Entertainment animation studio. Startz formed her …