World Screen

LOS ANGELES: Seth MacFarlane’s animated comedy American Dad will move to TBS in late 2014 after the conclusion of its tenth season on FOX. The Twentieth Century Fox Television series will launch its 11th season on TBS late next year, with sister network Adult Swim delivering encores of each episode. The cable network …

LOS ANGELES: Jeffrey Schneider has been named as the executive VP of business and legal affairs and general counsel at Shine America. In the newly created role, Schneider will work out of Los Angeles under Rich Ross, the company’s CEO. He will be responsible for heading up Shine America’s in-house business …

NEW YORK: Kimberley D. Harris becomes executive VP and general counsel for NBCUniversal on September 3, replacing Rick Cotton, who will now focus on anti-piracy initiatives. Harris’ duties will include offering legal advice to the company’s senior management team and overseeing the law department. She will also be expected to …

LOS ANGELES: FX’s American Horror Story: Asylum led the Primetime Emmy nominations announced this morning with 17 nods, followed by HBO’s Game of Thrones with 16, including outstanding drama series, where it is up against AMC’s Breaking Bad and Mad Men, Showtime’s Homeland, PBS’s Downton Abbey and Netflix’s House of Cards. The …

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Heather Moran has been upped to executive VP of programming and strategy for National Geographic Channel (NGC) in the U.S., while Brad Dancer was promoted to senior VP of programming planning and research for NGC U.S. and Nat Geo WILD. In her new role, Moran will be charged …

NEW YORK: A new report from GfK has found that subscribers to Netflix, Amazon Prime Instant Video and Hulu Plus are overwhelmingly watching more TV shows—both classic and contemporary—on those services than they are watching movies, by a margin of about four to one. GfK surveyed the viewing habits and preferences of …

LOS ANGELES: The French-language entertainment network TV5MONDE USA is now distributing 16 travel, food and lifestyle shows via ClearVISION’s digital television network, which is meant for airports in major U.S. markets. Titles being broadcast include Fine Foods (Epicerie Fine), Eco-home (Echo-logis), Custom Made (Sur Mesures), Villages in France (Villages de …

NEW YORK: Time Warner Cable subscribers in certain key markets across the U.S. could lose access to CBS this month if the two companies are unable to come to terms on a new retransmission agreement. The companies have taken their feud public after talks reportedly broke down yesterday. The previous retransmission …

BURBANK: Mike Darnell, who left his post as the president of alternative entertainment at FOX last month, is joining Warner Bros. to fill the newly created position of president of unscripted and alternative television. The post gives him oversight of first-run syndicated series produced by Telepictures Productions as well as unscripted prime-time …

LOS ANGELES: Next fall FOX is slated to air a crossover episode of Family Guy that will watch as the Griffin family meets characters from The Simpsons. In the episode, titled "The Simpsons Guy," the Griffins find themselves in Springfield, where they become acquainted with Homer Simpson and his family. …