World Screen

LONDON: In his first speech as chairman of the BBC Trust, Lord Patten said that certain core commercial activities must stay within the organization, including program distribution, branded channels and digital services, rejecting calls for BBC Worldwide to be privatized. Discussing …

ROME: The 24-hour Italian-language channel Mediaset Italia has launched in the U.S., and is available for a monthly fee on Comcast Cable in select markets. The channel offers programming from Italy’s top services such as Canale 5, Italia 1 and …

TEL AVIV: The Armoza Formats game show Still Standing has made its prime-time premiere in Spain on Antena 3, where it scored a 15.2-percent market share with its debut episode, 37-percent above the channel’s average. The series’ Spanish debut last …

SILVER SPRING: SCIENCE has slated the BBC’s Wonders of the Universe for a July debut in the U.S., with physicist and professor Brian Cox hosting the four-part series. Cox takes viewers on a journey into deep space by examining things …

NEW YORK: Global advertising rose 8.8 percent to $118 billion in the first quarter, according to Nielsen, with television advertising alone up 11.9 percent. According to the new Nielsen Global AdView Pulse report, television’s share of the global ad pie …

NEW YORK: Adding to its roster of original series, USA Network has picked up the cop show Common Law, with 11 episodes being shot in New Orleans. Michael Ealy (The Good Wife, Californication), Warren Kole (The Chicago Code, 24) and …

UNIVERSAL CITY: James Spader is joining the cast of NBC’s The Office as a series regular, playing the CEO of Dunder Mifflin’s parent company. The casting comes in the wake of Steve Carell’s departure from the show at the end …

MIAMI: Telemundo Internacional’s novela The Queen of the South (La Reina del Sur) premiered on July 4 on the Antenna TV channel in Cyprus during the 10:10 p.m. time slot. The Queen of the South has seen success in Mexico, …

ENGLEWOOD: Starz Entertainment has added Michael Thornton to its executive team as the executive VP of business and legal affairs of programming, digital and worldwide distribution. As executive VP, Thornton will develop the strategic direction of business and legal affairs …

LOS ANGELES: The third season of the TLC series Hoarding: Buried Alive is to premiere Sunday, July 10, at 9 p.m. The new season features nine hour-long episodes, each of which highlight someone with an out of control hoarding problem, …