Top Stories

LONDON, June 14: Channel 4 has picked up the rights to two new fall season dramas from Disney-ABC International Television, Dirty Sexy Money and Reaper, as well as Warner Bros. International Television’s The Big Bang Theory. Dirty Sexy Money for …

MONTE-CARLO, June 14: At the 47th Monte-Carlo Television Festival this evening, the winners were announced for the Golden Nymph Awards as well as the International TV Audience Awards, where CSI, Desperate Housewives and The Bold and the Beautiful were deemed …

NEW YORK, June 14: Showtime Networks led the pack of winners in the North American competition at the Promax/BDA 2007 Design Awards competition last night, while SCI FI Channel in the U.K. picked up the most awards among the World …

LOS ANGELES, June 13: The Internet TV platform Veoh Networks has announced that traffic increased 184 percent since its launch in February, with its user base jumping from 4.4 million to 12.5 million as of last month. To date, more …

MIAMI, June 13: Discovery en Espanol will premiere an original documentary, Viviendo En Las Sombras, focusing on the illegal immigration debate, on Sunday, June 24, at 9 p.m. Viviendo En Las Sombras features the real-life profiles of illegal immigrants as …

BUDAPEST, June 13: CTAM Europe (Cable Telecommunications Association for Marketing) will host EuroSummit 07, an annual cable marketing conference, on September 27 and 28 in Barcelona at the Princesa Sofia Gran Hotel. EuroSummit 07 is two-day cable-industry conference that focuses …

BANFF, June 13: The World Congress of History Producers (WCHP) event has been renamed as History Makers: International Summit of History and Current Affairs Producers, and will take place in New York from January 24 to 26, 2008. Bill Nemtin, …

LONDON, June 13: Heading into this year’s DISCOP, BBC Worldwide has sold four of its top drama series to the commercial broadcaster ICTV in Ukraine: Doctor Who, Torchwood, Sharpe’s Challenge and Hotel Babylon. The agreement marks BBC Worldwide’s first drama …

TORONTO, June 13: Breakthrough Films & Television has started production on an extensive slate of new drama series, including Easton Meets West, Less Than Kind and Confessions of a Porn Addict (COPA). Breakthrough has begun producing the pilot for Easton …

LOS ANGELES, June 13: Chris Bosco has been promoted to senior VP of finance at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, reporting to executive VP and CFO Steve Hendry. In his new position, Bosco takes on supervision of all financial matters for the studio’s …