World Screen

LOS ANGELES: Sarah Michelle Gellar’s new CW drama Ringer is among the new network shows CBS Studios International is launching to the international market. Set to air Tuesdays from 9 to 10 p.m., the show stars the Buffy alum as a woman …

LONDON: UKTV has acquired two seasons of the U.S. crime drama Rizzoli & Isles from Warner Bros. International Television Distribution for its pay-TV channel Alibi. The series is based on Tess Gerritsen’s best-selling crime novels featuring Jane Rizzoli. Angie Harmon …

LONDON: ITV Studios has named Hans Engholm as CEO of Silverback, its Scandinavian production company based in Stockholm. Engholm was most recently the creative director at Eyeworks, which is also in Stockholm, where he oversaw productions such as the Swedish version …

NEW YORK/TEL AVIV: A Hebrew-language service for HISTORY HD has launched on YES in Israel, featuring programming such as The Universe, Ice Road Truckers, American Pickers and World War II Lost Films. HISTORY HD will broadcast 100 percent in high …

MONTEREY: SNL Kagan is forecasting strong growth prospects for IPTV, with subscriptions expected to grow from the 40 million reported at the end of 2010 to more than 70 million by 2014. SNL Kagan analyzed the top 75 media economies …

LOS ANGELES:  Eye-candy aplenty, bigwigs behind the camera and a tilt toward comedy await the phalanxes of foreign TV program buyers as they hit town this weekend for the annual L.A. Screenings. The week-long viewing marathon is the first chance for …

BUDAPEST: HBO Central Europe has rolled out the HBO GO Internet streaming service to customers in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia. HBO GO is now available to HBO subscribers with a broadband Internet connection in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and …

ENGLEWOOD: DISH Network is offering its new customers three months of the Blockbuster By Mail service for free, following on its recent acquisition of the home-entertainment rental chain. New customers to the DISH service who activate qualifying programming through August …

MUMBAI: The Walt Disney Company in India has joined forces with UTV Motion Pictures, a leading Bollywood studio, to co-produce Disney-branded family films for local audiences. The two companies will share creative responsibilities for the slate, with UTV handling production, marketing …

MADRID: BRB Internacional has sold a number of animated series across Latin America, including Iron Kid, Bernard and A Thousand and One Americas. Televideo picked up Iron Kid, which features a teenage hero with a bionic arm on a quest for world …