Executive Editor, World Screen

August 3, 2017 Top Stories

AMC Networks Sees Higher Q2 Profit

August 3, 2017

AMC Networks reported second-quarter net income of $102.6 million, up 34 percent on the year-ago period, with a strong performance from its U.S. cable networks.

August 3, 2017 Top Stories

New Netflix Originals from India, LatAm

August 3, 2017

Netflix has ordered two new original series from India, including a supernatural, female-led detective series from Quantico scribe Marisha Mukerjee.

August 2, 2017 Top Stories

Lionsgate Hires Veteran Disney Exec for North American TV Distribution

August 2, 2017

Lionsgate has named Jared Goetz, a 22-year veteran of The Walt Disney Company, as president of North American television distribution, a newly created position.

August 2, 2017 Top Stories

WWE & Foxtel Extend Programming Pact

August 2, 2017

WWE and Foxtel have extended their partnership into its 18th year with a new agreement to broadcast WWE programming live in Australia.

August 2, 2017 Top Stories

Time Warner Q2 Financials See Nice Lift from Wonder Woman

August 2, 2017

Time Warner saw its second-quarter revenues rise 5 percent to $7.3 billion, with increases across all operating divisions and a particularly strong bump from the box-office release of Wonder Woman.

August 2, 2017 Top Stories

RTL Group Invests in VR Firm Inception

August 2, 2017

RTL Group has become the largest investor in the Series A financing round of Inception, specialized in virtual reality entertainment, and will hold a 15-percent stake in the company.

August 2, 2017 Top Stories

Former STUDIOCANAL Exec Katrina Neylon Joins Fremantle

August 2, 2017

FremantleMedia International has tapped Katrina Neylon for the role of executive VP of global content.

August 2, 2017 Top Stories

IDW Entertainment Launches Digital Studio

August 2, 2017

IDW Entertainment, which counts among its slate Wynonna Earp and Locke and Key, is launching a new content development, production, distribution and engagement initiative aimed at connecting with the “geek culture” audience.

August 1, 2017 Top Stories

Sony Q1 Profit Soars

August 1, 2017

Sony Corporation posted a spike in first-quarter operating income, which reached 157.6 billion yen ($1.43 billion), up 180.5 percent.

July 31, 2017 Top Stories

SundanceTV Reveals Unspeakable, Sundance Now Adds Rillington Place

July 31, 2017

CBC and SundanceTV have partnered on the new eight-part drama miniseries Unspeakable, focused on the tainted blood scandal in Canada in the early 1980s.

Kristin Brzoznowski

AMC Networks Sees Higher Q2 Profit

New Netflix Originals from India, LatAm

Lionsgate Hires Veteran Disney Exec for North American TV Distribution

WWE & Foxtel Extend Programming Pact

Time Warner Q2 Financials See Nice Lift from Wonder Woman

RTL Group Invests in VR Firm Inception

Former STUDIOCANAL Exec Katrina Neylon Joins Fremantle

IDW Entertainment Launches Digital Studio

Sony Q1 Profit Soars

SundanceTV Reveals Unspeakable, Sundance Now Adds Rillington Place

DIRECTV Abandons DISH Acquisition

Chernin Entertainment Promotes for TV Division Leads

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