World Screen

LOS GATOS: Netflix saw its first-quarter profits almost double to $60.2 million, on revenues that gained 46 percent to $718.55 million. The company reported 3.3 million net subscriber additions in the U.S. in the period, a 94-percent year-on-year gain. Including …

LOS ANGELES: Fox Sports Media Group is set to produce a six-part original series for FUEL TV, Bruce Lee Lives!, which is scheduled to debut on the channel on June 17. The half-hour series, which is produced by Pangolin Pictures, …

SINGAPORE: AXN Asia has secured the exclusive first run-rights for NCIS: Los Angeles season two for launch June 28.  The deal follows on a successful first season of the hit procedural, which took AXN to the number one spot among …

MUMBAI: Reliance Broadcast Network has appointed Asheesh Chatterjee as its chief financial officer. Chatterjee will head up the finance and legal side of the business, also leading key initiatives such as fund raising, mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures. Chatterjee …

PREMIUM: Andrew Beecham, the senior VP of programming at Sprout, discusses his strategy for scheduling the U.S. channel, which is constructed around blocks that mirror a preschooler’s day, and how best to pitch ideas accordingly. WS: Tell us about the …

SÃO PAULO: Cinevideo Productions has acquired the rights to the Dutch format Hello, Goodbye from BlazHoffski to air as a weekly show on the cable channel GNT. Cinevideo has already produced five episodes out of the 13 slated. Aired as …

Discovery Channel was born of John Hendricks’s desire back in 1985 to make television better and to satisfy viewers’ curiosity. More than 25 years later, Discovery Communications has become a leading nonfiction media company that reaches more than 1.5 billion …

NEW YORK: Veria TV has inked a deal with ONE: the Body, Mind & Spirit channel to provide up to 250 hours of Veria’s natural and wellness programs to air throughout Canada in 2011. As part of the deal, Veria …

  From Korean soaps to Japanese epics to Filipino telefantasies and more, Asian drama is in high demand.   We all know about the upbeat ad-industry forecasts that have content owners around the world anxious to sell their wares to …

NEW YORK: Making its first moves into unscripted original programming, AMC has ordered the "docu-stories" Inside the DHS and The Pitch from reality producers Craig Piligian and Eli Holzman and Stephen Lambert, respectively. Inside the DHS, set to premiere in …