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LONDON/NEW YORK: FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) has acquired the exclusive home-entertainment rights to WWE content throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Come January, FME will control the DVD, Blu-ray and digital rights for all new and existing WWE programming, …

NEW YORK: The screen legend Jessica Lange, star of American Horror Story, is set to take the stage at this year’s International Emmy Awards Gala to present Ryan Murphy with the 2012 International Emmy Founders Award. Murphy is the creator …

NEW YORK: For the eleventh year in a row, World Screen has produced The International Emmy Almanac for the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The International Emmy Almanac is an annual publication that showcases the activities of the …

LOS ANGELES/TORONTO/LONDON: First-half revenues from Entertainment One’s (eOne) television group were 70 percent higher than the previous period, as the unit delivered 138 half-hours of programming, up 89 percent by comparison. Overall eOne had increasing sales in the period—the six …

NEW YORK: Roma Khanna, the president of the television group and digital at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Studios, talks to World Screen’s Anna Carugati about the studio’s latest TV projects in this video interview.   James Bond is set to invade U.S. …

NEW YORK: In the aftermath of hurricane Sandy, which shuttered the World Screen offices for a week, our publisher, Ricardo Guise, reflects on television’s ability to alert communities about natural disasters and the ways in which the Internet is changing …

LONDON: Nearly 600 million televisions will be connected to the Internet by 2017, which is up from the 212 million expected at the end of this year, according to a new report from Digital TV Research. The Connected TV Forecasts report, which …

ENGLEWOOD: Liberty Global has notched up more than 50,000 subscriptions for its recently launched Horizon TV service, the company reported along with its Q3 results. Horizon TV made its debut in the Netherlands in September. The platform brings together television with …

NEW YORK: Cathy Payne, the chief executive of Endemol Worldwide Distribution, talks to World Screen about the company’s diverse catalogue, which features some 29,000 hours of content that ranges from scripted dramas and comedies to factual programming, from reality shows …

LOS ANGELES: Netflix has gained the rights to stream select CBS Corporation shows in Canada, Latin America, the U.K. and Ireland.  This brings Netflix members in each of these territories previous seasons of Showtime’s Dexter and CBS library shows such …