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LONDON: Leading pay-TV services added more than 20 million subscribers globally in a year, according to the latest Multiscreen Index from informitv. The number of digital video subs for the leading 100 pay-TV services rose by 5.24 million in Q2 …

LONDON/ABU DHABI: Twofour Digital, Twofour Arabia and Rocket Science have formed a new international content company, One Two Four, which is headquartered in the U.K. The new outfit will have offices in the U.K., the U.S. and the UAE. It …

PREMIUM: David Shore, who was the creator and executive producer of House, talks to World Screen about his new series Battle Creek. WS: I can’t even imagine what life was like immediately after House, saying goodbye to those characters and …

ESPOO: After five years as the head of Rovio Entertainment, which is behind the hit Angry Birds franchise, Mikael Hed is departing the CEO post, to be succeeded in 2015 by Pekka Rantala. The CEO transition will happen by January …

TORONTO: Tricon Films & Television has sold select titles from its programming catalogue to airlines around the world as in-flight entertainment. Spafax picked up the IFC comedies The Birthday Boys and Maron for Air Canada and the Spoils of Babylon for …

PREMIUM: Dick Wolf, the creator of the Law & Order franchise, discusses his career and the series Chicago Fire and Chicago P.D. WS: Where did your interest in crime, police work and the justice system come from? WOLF: I have …

LONDON: All ten episodes of Transparent, a dark comedy from Jill Soloway and Amazon Studios, are set to debut exclusively on Amazon Prime Instant Video in the U.K. and the U.S. on September 26. The Amazon original stars Jeffrey Tambor …

PREMIUM: The Blacklist showrunner Jon Bokenkamp talks to World Screen about the series, which is a hybrid between a serialized cable show and a broadcast procedural. WS: You worked in feature films for so long, what attracted you to television and …

NEW YORK: MarVista Entertainment and Circle of Confusion, producers of The Walking Dead, are co-production partners on the new supernatural teen horror film Satanic, which is being repped by Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures. Satanic follows a …

ULTIMO: ABC Commercial has inked SVOD agreements with Hulu and Netflix for The Adventures of Figaro Pho, Bess of Both Worlds and Stop at Nothing: The Lance Armstrong Story. The animated hit The Adventures of Figaro Pho, about a warmhearted boy with a …