World Screen

LOS ANGELES: HBO has picked up the new comedy Girls, created by and starring Lena Dunham, with executive producers Judd Apatow and Jenni Konner. Dunham (Tiny Furniture) wrote and directed the series pilot. She also executive produces along with Apatow and …

LOS ANGELES: The new documentary Silencing the Song: An Afghan Fallen Star, slated for a January 26 debut on HBO2, catches up with the young singer Setara, who was featured in the 2010 HBO doc Afghan Star. In Afghan Star, …

PASADENA: A second season of 20 fresh episodes of the original series Storage Wars has been ordered by A&E Network, to premiere in the second quarter. The first season of Storage Wars to date has averaged 2.3 million total viewers. …

PASADENA: Lifetime Television is launching a trio of new reality series in February, alongside the recently announced Heidi Klum project Seriously Funny Kids and the TV movie Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy. The half-hour series Seriously Funny Kids …

LOS ANGELES: Dick Clark Productions (dcp) has filed a motion with a Los Angeles court seeking the dismissal of a lawsuit filed against the company by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association over the Golden Globe Awards broadcast. "We have said from …

NEW YORK: The debut of the third season of Jersey Shore delivered 8.45 million total viewers, becoming MTV’s highest rated series telecast ever. The season three premiere averaged an 8.3 rating with the 12-to-34 demographic and 6.5 million viewers in …

NEW YORK: TVFormats.ws, the only website for the formats industry, is now live. TV Formats has launched its online destination TVFormats.ws as a stand-alone, state-of-the-art website, dedicated exclusively to news, video, features, interviews and profiles about the format business. Spun-off …

CHICAGO: Playboy Enterprises has entered into a deal with a firm controlled by its founder, Hugh M. Hefner, to go private at $6.15 per share. The price to be paid by Icon Acquisition Holdings, a limited partnership controlled by Hefner, …

PASADENA: The hit AMC original Breaking Bad is headed back into production for a fourth season of 13 one-hour episodes slated for summer 2011. Production on the new episodes gets under way on January 13 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The …

Every once in a while a show comes along that creates a sensation. The Walking Dead is such a show. It started as a comic by Robert Kirkman and captured the attention of Frank Darabont, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of The …