World Screen

NEW YORK: Comedy Central has picked up a second season of Workaholics, with ten new episodes planned for the series. The show comes from Mail Order Comedy’s Blake Anderson, Adam Devine, Anders Holm and Kyle Newacheck. The show premiered on …

NEW YORK: The grid of BBC America is set to include a two-hour comedy block, Ministry of Laughs, featuring shows such as The Inbetweeners and Come Fly with Me, starting June 18. The block will feature an all-new season of the BAFTA-winning …

SILVER SPRING: Discovery Networks International (DNI) has hired Julian Bellamy, formerly the head of Channel 4, for the newly created role of creative director and head of production and development. Bellamy takes up the new London-based post on June 1. He …

NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES: WWE Superstar Edge is set to guest star on the Syfy original series Haven. In the show, which is based on The Colorado Kid by Stephen King, the wrestling star will play a long-time resident of the …

HONG KONG: Discovery’s Tom Keaveny, PCCW’s Janice H. Y. Lee and Turner Broadcasting’s Steve Marcopoto have been elected to CASBAA’s Board of Directors. Keaveny, executive VP and managing director of Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific; Lee, executive VP of PCCW; and Marcopoto, president and managing …

LOS ANGELES: Carsey-Werner International Television has taken on the worldwide distribution rights to In with the Flynns, the new comedy series from Caryn Mandabach Productions for BBC One. The show stars Will Mellor and Niky Wardley as Liam and Caroline, a …

BURBANK: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group has signed a deal to acquire the movie service Flixster, including the assets of the film website Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster, founded in 2006, is used by more than 25 million people each month. The …

DALLAS: A new Parks Associates report projects that 81 percent of U.S. and Canadian pay-TV subscribers will be able to access content online via TV Everywhere services by the middle of this year. U.S. platforms in particular have embraced TV Everywhere, …

ENGLEWOOD: DISH Network is being sued by both The Walt Disney Company and Starz over the platform’s provision of the premium network to its subscribers for free. DISH earlier this year offered its 14.1 million subs a free one-year subscription …

NEW YORK: CBS Corporation returned to profit in the first quarter, reporting a net income of $202 million as compared with the year-ago loss of $26 million. Revenues at the company were flat at $3.5 billion. This includes $1.99 billion from the …