World Screen

BURBANK: The long-running daytime soaps All My Children and One Life to Live have been licensed by ABC to Prospect Park, which will continue to produce and deliver the shows after their final TV air dates to run on other …

LONDON: Amid a continued phone-hacking scandal that is threatening its proposed takeover of BSkyB, News Corporation has announced that the 168-year-old U.K. tabloid News of the World will print its last issue this weekend. The announcement was made today by …

LONDON: The Good Food channel in the U.K. has commissioned two new seasons of Choccywoccydoodah, which features the internationally acclaimed Brighton-based cake shop’s creations. After the success of the first season, the 10×30-minute Twofour Broadcast series Choccywoccydoodah was re-commissioned for …

SYDNEY: Beyond Distribution has finalized a range of deals throughout Europe from its lineup of factual and documentary content. The series All for One with Debbie Travis was picked up by Vitaya in Belgium, TV Norge in Norway and Spektrum …

TORONTO: The documentary series Greatest Tank Battles season two and Combat Forces have been licensed by Breakthrough Entertainment to the Military History channel in the U.K. Greatest Tank Battles, produced by Breakthrough, uses CGI technology and eyewitness accounts to capture …

SILVER SPRING: True Grime: Crime Scene Clean Up, which takes a look at the job of cleaning up messes left at crime scenes, has been added to the Investigation Discovery lineup. The world premiere is Tuesday, July 19, from 10 …

WASHINGTON, D.C.: The leading U.S. Internet service providers (ISPs) have agreed to a new system of "Copyright Alerts" that will electronically notify subscribers if an account is being used to download pirated content, in an initiative backed by the Hollywood …

LOS ANGELES: Suzanne Kolb has been appointed president of E! Entertainment, where she’ll report directly to Bonnie Hammer, the chairman of NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment and Cable Studios. Kolb had previously been the president of marketing, news and online for E! …

BURBANK: TVNZ has renewed its pact with Warner Bros. International Television Distribution for the free-TV rights to a slate of feature films and TV series, including this fall’s Person of Interest and 2 Broke Girls and the last two films …

LONDON: A number of deals have been firmed up from the Scorpion TV catalogue, with sales to Art Media in Russia, Turner in Latin America and Planete in Poland, among others. The science series The Brain Fitness Program and the …