World Screen

NEW YORK: A new agreement with Open Road Films sees Comedy Central taking the first window broadcast premiere for the Marlon Wayans comedy A Haunted House as well as Dax Shepard’s Hit & Run. A Haunted House heads into its first broadcast window in March 2015 and will be exclusive …

SAN DIEGO: IDW Publishing and Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products are working together on a publishing plan for cult hit series The X-Files that includes reprinting collections from the classic issues from 1995. New publishing for the series, which spawned two movies and had more than 200 TV episodes, has …

MIAMI: Steve Levitan, the co-creator and executive producer of Modern Family, and Peter Casey, producer on such hits as The Jeffersons, Cheers and Frasier, took part in today’s Storytellers that Shaped the Face of Pop Culture track at NATPE, in which they discussed several aspects of what it takes to …

LOS ANGELES: The Bold and the Beautiful, The Talk, The Price is Right and Let’s Make a Deal have all received pickups from CBS for its daytime schedule for the 2013-14 season. The Bold and the Beautiful, which is about to celebrate its 26th anniversary, is touted as the most-watched …

LOS ANGELES: Showtime is bringing back Shameless, House of Lies and Californication for new seasons in 2014. Shameless is up 22 percent in its third season, currently averaging 5.4 million weekly viewers across platforms. The second season of House of Lies is averaging 3.2 million weekly viewers across platforms, up …

NEW YORK: Revenues at Viacom for the fiscal first quarter were down 16 percent to $3.31 billion, primarily due to lower movie revenues. Media Networks revenues were down 2 percent to $2.39 billion, impacted by lower advertising revenues. U.S. and worldwide ad revenues each decreased 6 percent. In the U.S., …

BURBANK: The new prime-time game show Bet On Your Baby, slated to launch on ABC in April, sees parents trying to predict their child’s next moves in an effort to win money towards a college fund. The series, co-produced by Electus and 5×5 Media, is hosted by Melissa Peterman, who …

LOS ANGELES: How I Met Your Mother is returning to CBS for the 2013-14 broadcast season, when audiences will finally learn the identity of "the Mother." Series regulars Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, Cobie Smulders, Neil Patrick Harris and Alyson Hannigan, as well as series creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, …

BURBANK: Heading into Toy Fair season, Warner Bros. Consumer Products (WBCP) has secured a slew of global licensees supporting the summer release of Man of Steel. Mattel is launching a line of toys that will include action figures, vehicles, playsets and collectibles. The company will also offer Man of Steel QuickShots …

EL SEGUNDO: The growth of the IPTV market in the U.S. continued to decelerate in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to IHS Screen Digest. Verizon and AT&T, the two major IPTV players in the U.S., reported a combined gain of 326,000 video subscribers in the quarter, which is 19-percent less than the …