World Screen

KNOXVILLE: Bob Baskerville, who currently serves as the COO of Scripps Networks Interactive’s international business, has been appointed as the company’s chief information officer. Baskerville succeeds Ron Johnson, the current chief information officer who is intending to retire at the end of the year. Baskerville will report to Mark Hale, …

NEW YORK: EPIX has promoted Amit Ziv to VP of business operations, development and strategy from senior director of business operations and strategy. In his new role Ziv will be expected to handle strategic business planning. He will collaborate with EPIX executive leadership in managing content distribution agreements, developing and …

NEW YORK: Al Jazeera America, which made its debut yesterday, has filed a lawsuit against AT&T’s U-verse after the provider dropped the channel. The decision by AT&T’s U-verse pay-TV service came from a contract dispute over terms to carry the new network. Al Jazeera has responded by suing for breach of …

UNIVERSAL CITY: NBC has ordered a ten-episode second season of Hollywood Game Night, a game show hosted by Jane Lynch that airs on Thursday nights. Hollywood Game Night looks on as contestants play games with such celebrities as Kristin Bell, Rose Byrne, Nick Cannon, Kristin Chenoweth, Minnie Driver, Patricia Heaton, Lisa …

TORONTO/LOS ANGELES: Entertainment One (eOne) is working with Avi Lerner’s Nu Image to develop and produce a TV series based on the iconic action film Rambo. The pair have signed an exclusive option agreement to collectively develop the series and shop it to broadcasters in the U.S. and internationally. Negotiations …

ATLANTA: TBS has ordered third seasons of the original sitcoms Sullivan & Son and Men at Work, as well as a second season of the game show Deal with It. The Steve Byrne-led Sullivan & Son is produced for TBS by Wild West Picture Show Productions in association with Warner Horizon Television. The …

NEW YORK: CBS Corporation and Verizon Communications have agreed to a new three-year deal that includes retransmission consent for CBS-owned stations on Verizon FiOS TV. CBS-owned stations in various Verizon markets, including New York, Los Angeles and Dallas—where the group is currently in a blackout with Time Warner Cable—will continue …

NEW YORK: Time Warner Cable is giving away a limited number of TV antennas to customers in markets affected by its blackout of CBS stations. The cable provider is giving away basic indoor antennas at its retail locations in New York, Los Angeles, Dallas and parts of Wisconsin. Alternately, it is …

BURBANK: ABC Family is producing three new comedy pilots, including one starring Tori Spelling. Spelling stars in Mystery Girls, about a former starlet who gets into the business of solving crimes with her former mystery TV show co-star. Work Mom is a half-hour workplace comedy following Heather, who gets promoted at …

LOS ANGELES: E! has tapped Noah Pollack, most recently the VP of reality programming at Lifetime, as its new senior VP of programming and developing. At Lifetime, Pollack had been overseeing the development and production of such series and pilots as Pretty Wicked Moms, The Week the Women Went and The Houstons: …