World Screen

CULVER CITY: Sony Pictures Entertainment has extended Amy Pascal’s employment agreement, keeping her as co-chairman of the studio through 2015. Together with Michael Lynton, SPE’s chairman and CEO, Pascal oversees all of the studio’s business lines, including motion pictures (Columbia Pictures, …

SINGAPORE: Singaporean broadcaster MediaCorp is moving its offices from Caldecott Hill to the country’s digital media hub, Mediapolis. The move to Mediapolis—which is located at the one-north commercial district—is expected to be complete by mid-2015. The broadcaster will be Mediapolis’s anchor tenant, …

SINGAPORE: The Asia TV Forum opened here in Singapore today with an overall 15-percent increase in attendance, reports Reed Exhibitions, including an 18-percent rise in buyer participation, for a total of 2,600 attendees. Under the theme "Above and Beyond," ATF also reports …

LONDON: Filling the newly created post of VP of programming at AETN UK is Adam MacDonald, who starts in the role in early January 2011. MacDonald will be based at the company’s West London office. He will be reporting to …

MUNICH: After successful airings of The Pillars of the Earth, a number of broadcasters, including Germany’s ProSiebenSat.1, are on board for the Ken Follett sequel World Without End. Spain’s Cuatro, Austria’s ORF an Sky Italia are also set to air …

ORLANDO: Pipe Dream is a new docu-reality series, debuting on January 11 on Golf Channel, that follows professional golfer Mark Burk, who found himself homeless and is working to get his life back on track. Burk knew from the age …

DUBAI: Orbit Showtime Network (OSN) has slated 3D movies to air on its on-demand service across the Middle East. OSN launches this 3D push with the debut of the underwater odyssey Oceanworld 3D this month. The film takes viewers on …

MUNICH: Continuing to grow its reach across Scandinavia, the hit SevenOne International format Benidorm Bastards has scored pickups in Norway and Denmark. Under the local title Bingobanden, the series will launch on TV Norway on March 9, 2011 at 9:30 …

BURBANK: ABC Family has picked up the worldwide premiere rights for Paramount Famous Productions’ Mean Girls 2, which it will air on January 23 at 8 p.m. Mean Girls 2 is the follow up to the 2004 hit film that …

BURBANK: ABC has scheduled the freshman comedies Mr. Sunshine, starring Matthew Perry, and Happy Endings to air on Wednesday nights, as part of a comedy block that will run for three hours starting in April. The Middle leads off the …