World Screen

LONDON: Copyright Promotions Limited Group (CPLG), Warner Bros. Consumer Products and Saban Brands have been added to the exhibitor list for this year’s Brand Licensing Europe. CPLG returns to the show for the first time in six years. Its brands …

BURBANK: NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution has licensed the basic-cable rights to the acclaimed drama Friday Night Lights to ABC Family, which is set to launch the show in the fall. Season four of the show is currently airing on NBC. …

LOS ANGELES: MGM Worldwide Television has signed a long-term affiliation agreement for THIS TV with Tribune Broadcasting, scoring renewals on existing stations as well as notching up new markets. THIS TV adds Tribune stations as new affiliates in New York, …

BURBANK: CBS is declaring victory in total viewers for the 2009-2010 season—its seventh in the past eight years—while FOX continues to lead the 18-to-49 set, thanks to American Idol.    Based on ratings through Sunday, May 23, CBS has a 7.2 rating …

SAN DIEGO: Time Warner Cable has launched VeneMovies, a 24-hour Spanish-language movie channel, in its San Diego, North County and Desert Cities lineups. This expanded reach includes Palm Springs, Palm Desert, Coachella, Indio, Cathedral City, La Quinta, Desert Hot Springs, …

NEW YORK: WE tv is expanding its Asian presence, with Rainbow Media securing a license from Taiwan’s National Communications Commission (NCC) that will allow for the channel’s launch in the country. The women’s network has already launched in Hong Kong, …

SANTA MONICA/VANCOUVER: A package of 139 library titles from Lionsgate have been licensed to Rainbow Media for broadcast on its IFC, Sundance, AMC and WE tv networks. Among the titles included in the deal are Precious, Crash, Monster’s Ball and …

LONDON/NEW YORK: ITV Studios America is set to produce a U.S. version of the cookery format Come Dine with Me for BBC Worldwide Channels’ global portfolio of channels, including BBC America. Production begins on the 10×1-hour show this summer for a 2011 premiere …

LONDON: A suite of localized mobile sites are set to launch in Europe for E! Entertainment Television, via a deal signed by Buongiorno!Digital and Comcast International Media Group (CIMG). European mobile users will have access to E! Entertainment’s up-to-the-minute entertainment …

NEW YORK: In the first quarter of 2010, total advertising expenditures increased 5.1 percent from a year ago, according to Kantar Media, finishing the period at $31.3 billion. This is the first increase in quarterly ad spending since Q1 2008 …