World Screen

ENGLEWOOD: The 3 from EPIX is a new movie channel, showcasing popular films from the ’70s to present day, which is set to join satellite platform DISH Network’s lineup. Culled from the libraries of premium movie service EPIX’s parent companies—Paramount, …

DOHA: Al Jazeera Children’s Channel (JCC) was presented with the award for best short documentary film in anthropology for Written in the Wind at the Jade Kunlun Awards during the World Mountain Documentary Festival in Qinghai, China. The festival, dedicated …

LOS ANGELES/LONDON: ITV has renewed its deal with MGM Worldwide Television for the rights to the James Bond movie franchise, which includes the U.K. free-TV premiere of Quantum of Solace with Daniel Craig. For the first time in the U.K., all the …

LONDON: Just a few weeks after announcing it was abandoning takeover talks, Metrodome Group has inked a deal to acquire Target Entertainment and promises to "significantly invest" in the company. The British home-entertainment outfit will buy the shares of Target’s …

LONDON: LIVING is entering the scripted drama arena with the commission of Bedlam, a six-part paranormal series slated for early 2011. The series stars Will Young (Mrs Henderson Presents, Skins), Theo James (A Passionate Woman), Charlotte Salt (The Tudors) and …

LOS ANGELES: The average median age of viewers at the five U.S. broadcast networks is 52, up from 43 in the 1999/00 season, while the average age in TV homes in the U.S. today is just 38. ABC’s median age has risen …

NEW YORK: The new Hallmark Channel original special Martha Stewart Presents: The Women Who Dress America, premiering September 19, will be hosted by Martha Stewart and feature fashion icons such as Diane Von Furstenberg, Donna Karan, Tory Burch and Jenna …

STOCKHOLM: NonStop Television has firmed up a deal with Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution for a range of films to air on Showtime in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The deal includes movies such as William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet, The …

CALGARY: Canada’s Competition Bureau has given the greenlight to Shaw Communications’ acquisition of Canwest Global’s free-to-air and specialty television businesses. The regulator has ruled that the deal is "not likely give rise to a substantial lessening or prevention of competition …

LONDON: The German cable-TV operator Pepcom has been sold by private equity investors GMT Communications and Veronis Suhler Stevenson (VSS) to STAR Capital Partners. Pepcom has more than 630,000 subscribers of video, broadband and voice services. GMT and VSS held …