World Screen

STAMFORD/ENGLEWOOD: Liberty Media Corporation is acquiring approximately 27.3-percent in shares of Charter Communications for a price of $2.617 billion. The deal is between Liberty, Apollo Management, Oaktree Capital Management and Crestview Partners. It gives Liberty around 26.9 million shares and approximately 1.1 million warrants in Charter Communications. The purchase, which …

MONTEREY: The base of U.S. multichannel subscribers was up for Q4 and the full year of 2012, reversing the negative quarterly trends of Q2 and Q3, according to an SNL Kagan study. Multichannel service providers in the U.S. collectively saw a gain of 51,000 new customers in Q4. The gains …

LOS ANGELES: Call Me Crazy: A Five Film, a Lifetime original movie event made up of five interwoven shorts titled Lucy, Eddie, Allison, Grace and Maggie, is set to make its world premiere on Saturday, April 20 at 8 p.m. Produced by Sony Pictures Television, Echo Films and Freestyle Picture …

LOS ANGELES: MarVista Entertainment has picked up the rights for a number of disaster, family drama, thriller and supernatural telefilms, all of which are to be promoted by the company at this year’s MIPTV. Among the titles in MarVista’s catalogue is Rock Storm Productions’ Stonados, which follows a series of stone-throwing …

NEW YORK: Deloitte’s seventh edition of the State of the Media Democracy survey revealed a 160-percent growth in the number of digital omnivores, consumers who own a trio of tablets, smartphones and laptops. This accounts from more than a quarter of U.S. consumers. Tablet ownership alone spiked 177 percent over …

NEW YORK: Hallmark Channel, a provider of original family content, has announced a slew of titles that it plans to air in 2013-2014. Among the original movies set to premiere in Q2-Q4 2013 are Mr. Hockey: The Gordie Howe Story, Beverly Lewis’ The Confession, Playing Father, Star Spangled Banners, Two …

LOS ANGELES: Rive Gauche Television has sold more than 350 hours of programming to broadcasters in Europe, North America and the Asia-Pacific region. In Europe, Travelers with Skis went to Chellozone and AB France, while Horsemen Cometh headed to NTV Germany. My Strange Addiction and Scare Tactics were picked up …

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Following on the success of Killing Lincoln, and on the heels of Killing Kennedy, National Geographic Channels is again teaming with Scott Free Productions to adapt a Bill O’Reilly novel, this time Killing Jesus. The film is going to be based on Killing Jesus: A History, the recently announced …

ATLANTA: TBS has renewed the original comedy Cougar Town, giving it a 13-episode order for a fifth season. Produced by ABC Studios, Cougar Town joined the TBS lineup in January in its fourth season. The series currently airs Tuesdays at 10 p.m. It stars Courteney Cox, Christa Miller, Busy Philipps, Dan …

CULVER CITY: 3net Studios has added to its existing 3D and 4K original content pipeline, reporting increased demand from platforms and partners worldwide. Principal photography has started on the 3D original series Turn & Burn, a six-episode reality series featuring El Reyes Garage in Venice, California, and Dark Secrets, an …