World Screen

LOS GATOS: Netflix is offering a subscription plan for the U.S. that is solely for streaming movies and TV shows over the Internet. The streaming-only plan will be introduced for $7.99. This allows members to instantly watch unlimited movies and …

ALVISO: The new TiVo app for the iPad provides full control over all of the features of the set-top, without interrupting what’s currently playing on the TV. The TiVo Premiere App allows users to search, browse, explore and share programming …

LONDON: Some 85 million digital TV households are expected to be added in 2010, according to a new report, with the global total to reach 517 million and digital penetration to hit 40 percent. Informa Telecoms & Media’s new Global …

NEW YORK: Regulators are said to be upset with Comcast’s announcement of a new executive structure for NBC Universal before the merger has been approved, calling the move "presumptuous and arrogant." The New York Times reports that two government officials …

LOS ANGELES: As part of a revamp to its midseason schedule, FOX is shifting American Idol by a day, to air Wednesdays and Thursdays, while also picking up Christian Slater’s new comedy, Breaking In. The midseason schedule will see House and …

BURBANK: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, parts one and two, have been picked up by ABC Family from Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, giving the network the basic cable rights to all eight films in the franchise. Harry Potter …

MUNICH: Tandem Communications has a new movie in the works, Treasure Guards, with network partners ProSiebenSat.1 of Germany and Italy’s Mediaset. Principal photography has begun in South Africa. The film is budgeted at $6 million. The story follows an archaeologist …

NEW YORK: Don Browne, the president of Telemundo, joined Annie Wegelius, the director of programs at Sweden’s Sveriges Television (SVT), and Joe Calabrese, the chair for entertainment, media and sports practice at O’Melveny & Myers, as a panelist at The …

NEW YORK: Upon the completion of Comcast’s takeover of NBC Universal, a number of the company’s executives will shift to expanded roles, with new talent also tapped to come on board. Robert Greenblatt, the former head of programming at Showtime Networks, …

NEW YORK: The Vice Guide to Everything is a new investigative series for MTV that features Vice correspondents investigating dangerous, extraordinary and bizarre stories around the world. The show will feature Vice founder Shane Smith and reporters Ryan Duffy and …