World Screen

NEW YORK/BRISTOL: Under the terms of a recently announced partnership, Time Warner Cable customers who receive ESPN as part of their video subscription now have access to a live simulcast of ESPN online as well as access to ESPN3.com. The …

NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES: In the run-up to the premiere of The Walking Dead, AMC and Fox International Channels (FIC) have planned a worldwide promotional event that will see hundreds of zombies flooding the streets of major cities during morning commute …

LONDON: The BBC has commissioned a fourth run of the hit show Merlin from FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME). The third season of the hit fantasy-drama is currently airing on BBC One, drawing in weekly an average audience of more than 6 million …

BURBANK: Both of The CW’s freshman series, Hellcats and Nikita, have been given full-season orders, along with One Tree Hill, which heads into its eighth season. Hellcats and Nikita both received back-nine-episode orders. Hellcats stars Aly Michalka and Ashley Tisdale. …

NEW YORK: A greenlight has been given to Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome, the latest installment in the hit Syfy saga. Universal Cable Productions will produce the two-hour pilot with Syfy. The series is set in the tenth year of …

HONG KONG/SINGAPORE/SYDNEY: MTV Networks International (MTVNI) has commissioned two original reality-based shows in the Asia Pacific, one in Australia and another in Japan. For MTV Australia, Freshwater Blue follows 12 young adults from Sydney’s northern beaches during their life-changing summer …

CHICAGO: Playboy Enterprises says its third-quarter results will include a write-down charge of more than $20 million on its TV programming inventory. The quarter will also include a bad debt expense of approximately $1 million and domestic TV contra revenues …

MIAMI: On November 1, Telemundo will premiere its newest original telenovela, Aurora, a romantic love story with a modern twist. The cast includes Sara Maldonado, Eugenio Siller, Jorge Luis Pila, Aylin Mujica and Lisette Morelos. The novela is executive produced …

MADRID: Spain’s PRISA has announced the first steps in the reorganization of Sogecable, with Manuel Polanco named president of the operation, which is being renamed PRISA TV as the holding company for all of the firm’s audiovisual operations. Polanco, who has spent his entire …

NEW YORK: Customers of Verizon’s FiOS TV will have on-demand access to a range of documentaries from SnagFilms, with an initial lineup of ten titles launching today. The ten films will be joined by five more by the end of …