World Screen

LONDON: Endemol’s high-stakes game show The Money Drop has been given a 12-episode order from FOX in the U.S., following a pilot commission earlier this year. The show will have the local title Million Dollar Money Drop and will feature …

NEW YORK: More than 300 hours of new on-demand programming from ABC, Disney and ESPN have been added to the Time Warner Cable service, which is also gearing up to launch the Primetime HD On Demand channel for digital cable customers …

PARIS: In the third quarter, M6 Group reported a 19.7-percent boost in ad revenues to 163 million euros, with overall revenues up 7.3 percent to 317.7 million euros. The flagship M6 channel alone boosted ad revenues by 19.3 percent to …

NEW YORK: While its revenues were relatively stable at $3.3 billion. CBS Corporation posted a third-quarter profit of $317.3 million, a 53-percent gain on last year’s $207.6 million. "CBS’s extraordinary performance this year continued in the third quarter," said Sumner Redstone, …

LONDON: Members of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) working for the BBC have launched a 48-hour strike, taking action against changes to pension plans. The NUJ has 4,100 members out of a total BBC workforce of 17,500. The BBC …

SINGAPORE: In the third quarter of 2010, net subscriber additions in the global pay-TV market increased 2 percent, reaching 692 million, according to new data from ABI Research. New platforms such as digital terrestrial TV and online video are providing …

LONDON: The Poker Channel has signed a three-year license agreement with GSN (Game Show Network) for the exclusive TV and online rights to three seasons of High Stakes Poker to air across Europe and Russia. As of November 7, The …

LOS ANGELES: The International Trade Administration (ITA) of USDOC has awarded the Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA) $248,000 under its Market Development Cooperator Program (MDCP), in a move to enhance the global competitiveness of U.S. film exports. The multi-year …

DE PANNE/MUNICH: Plopsa, the theme-park division of Studio 100, has purchased the amusement and adventure attraction Holiday Park in Hassloch, Southwest Germany. Plopsa already operates three theme parks in Belgium—Plopsaland De Panne, Plopsa Indoor Hasselt and Plopsa Coo—and one in …

KNOXVILLE/DALLAS: Food Network, HGTV, DIY Network, Cooking Channel and Great American Country have been dropped from the lineup of AT&T U-verse after the platform failed to reach a new contract agreement with Scripps Networks. “Let me start by saying this …