World Screen

ATLANTA: Cartoon Network has ordered new seasons of Adventure Time, Regular Show and MAD, which form the network’s Monday night animated comedy lineup. The first two seasons of Adventure Time ranked number one in its time slots on all of …

MAINZ: ZDF and ZDF Enterprises are hosting the World Congress of Science and Factual Producers (WCSFP) this year, which started today and runs through December 3. The event features film and television practitioners from the fields of scientific, historical and …

LOS ANGELES: Ahead of its January market, NATPE has already sold approximately 80 percent of the suite space at the Fontainebleau Resort in Miami, with more than 500 buyers expected to be on hand. “We’ve seen tremendous excitement in advance …

LONDON: DRG has sold the Channel 4 sitcom Peep Show to ABC in Australia, Super Channel in Canada, TV4 of Sweden and Hulu in the U.S. ABC and Super Channel signed up for the all-new seventh season as network premieres. …

NEW YORK: TV Land has given cast-contingent greenlights to two new pilots, one of which is based on the life of Fran Drescher. Happily Divorced is written by Drescher (The Nanny) and Peter Marc Jacobsen (The Nanny, What I Like …

HONG KONG: Two game shows from Endemol Asia have been commissioned for local versions by Indosiar Visual Mandiri (IVM) of Indonesia. The 20 Little Piggy Banks is to make its international debut in Asia, with a launch on IVM in …

ROME/MADRID/LONDON: The Walt Disney Company is rolling out the highly anticipated crime procedural Body of Proof across Europe ahead of its launch on ABC in the U.S. The series, which stars Desperate Housewives‘ Dana Delany, will launch in January and …

LOS ANGELES: The long-running daytime soap The Young and the Restless has been renewed by CBS for another three years, through the 2013-14 season. The soap airs daily on CBS at 12:30 p.m. It has been the number one rated …

NEW YORK: Comcast Corporation and Level 3 Communications, a network partner of Netflix, are battling amid claims that the cable giant has started demanding an unfair fee that puts Internet companies at a competitive disadvantage. Comcast, which has its own …

LONDON: Year-one adoption of 3D TVs is running at a "far quicker rate" in most territories than was the case for HD TVs, according to a new industry report from Futuresource Consulting. The specialist research and knowledge-based consulting firm attributes …