World Screen

NEW YORK: The most expensive ad-buy on U.S. network television is the Tuesday night edition of American Idol, at $467,000 for a 30-second spot, according to a new survey. The data compiled by Advertising Age also found that NBC’s Sunday Night Football is …

LONDON: Elisabeth Murdoch’s Shine Group is said to be planning legal action against Channel Five’s new owner, Richard Desmond’s Northern & Shell, over payment for the summer entertainment series Don’t Stop Believing. British press reports indicate that Shine Group has …

LOS ANGELES: Gerhard Zeiler is among those to receive the Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Award at NATPE, along with Dick Ebersol, Mary Hart and Regis Philbin. The award will be presented during a cocktail celebration on January 25 in Miami at …

LOS ANGELES: The soon-to-launch 3D joint-venture channel from Sony Corporation, Discovery Communications and IMAX has commissioned a range of original and exclusive series and firmed up several partner program acquisitions. Original series include Abandoned Planet, a one-hour series that sheds …

BETHPAGE: The more than 3 million New York-area households that subscribe to Cablevision lost access to Fox 5 and My9 this weekend after the platform was unable to clinch a new carriage deal with News Corporation. Talks reportedly resumed today …

LONDON: A new deal with the Indonesian digital pay-TV operator PT Cipta Skynindo will see KidsCo available to Indonesian and East Timorese viewers in English as well as Bahasa Indonesian. As of November 1, the channel will be added to …

LONDON: A continuing recovery in the global ad market has prompted ZenithOptimedia to upgrade its growth forecast for this year to 4.8 percent from 3.5 percent, and for 2011 to 4.6 percent from 4.5 percent, while a 5.4-percent increase is …

BURBANK: The science-fiction series V is returning to ABC for a second season on January 4 at 9 p.m. The series about the world’s first alien encounter was television’s number one new drama during the ’09-10 season in the adult …

The Format Superpanel: Formulas for Success was one of the most well-attended sessions at MIPCOM last week. Moderated by World Screen’s group editorial director, Anna Carugati, the packed-out session featured FremantleMedia’s Rob Clark, Shine’s Alex Mahon, Banijay’s François de Brugada, …

The creator of The 99, Dr. Naif Al-Mutawa, talks to TV Kids Weekly about the property’s move to television. The world’s first superheroes based on Islamic culture and society, The 99, are headed to the TV screen, courtesy of Endemol …