World Screen

NEW YORK: Time Warner Cable’s TWC TV application is now available on the Xbox 360 console, delivering subscribers who are Xbox Live Gold members the ability to watch up to 300 live TV channels. The TWC TV app for Xbox Live allows customers to share and see what friends are watching and …

LOS ANGELES: Hulu has ordered the ten-episode comedy Deadbeat, co-produced by Lionsgate and Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment. The supernatural comedy is from creators Cody Heller and Brett Konner, who previously worked on the FX show Wilfred. It focuses on a male medium who helps New York’s ghosts to settle …

SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter has acquired Trendrr, a company that tracks and analyzes real-time conversations about TV shows on Twitter and other social media outlets. Mark Ghuneim, the founder of Trendrr, announced the purchase on his blog. "Over the last five years we have led the way in working with real-time data …

LOS ANGELES: Daniel March, formerly the president of Echo Bridge Entertainment International, has launched a new production and distribution company, Dynamic Television. The company will make its debut at MIPCOM with around 200 hours of original content. Its launch slate includes 160 hours of Conan O’Brien’s TBS late night series …

NEW YORK: Fernando Szew, the CEO of MarVista Entertainment, sat down with World Screen’s Anna Carugati to discuss the company’s accomplishments and his vision for the future.   Szew is the first to admit that the ten years since 2003, when MarVista Entertainment was founded, have gone by very, very …

LOS ANGELES: Sean Boyle has been elevated to VP of development at Discovery Channel, where he is taking on an expanded position. Boyle will keep working out of Los Angeles under Nancy Daniels, the executive VP of programming and production at Discovery Channel. He will continue to supervise the development …

NEW YORK: CBS Corporation has reached an agreement with Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks that restores service of all CBS channels, including Showtime, to the provider's cable systems across the country. The specific terms of the deal are not being disclosed. However, the pact does include retransmission consent, …

MONTEREY: SNL Kagan estimates that cable, DBS and telco video providers collectively lost 366,000 video subscribers in the second quarter, however, this is actually an 11-percent improvement from the loss posted in the year-ago quarter. The multichannel industry is still below its mid-2012 levels. The combined cable, telco and DBS …

LONDON: Following on the heels of ITV's acquisition of Gurney Productions, High Noon Entertainment and Thinkfactory Media, the company has established the ITV Studios U.S. Group, which also includes the existing ITV Studios America business. The group will be led by a leadership team chaired by Paul Buccieri, the president …

LOS ANGELES: David Goldberg, the chairman and CEO of Endemol North America, is planning to step down at the end of December, after more than 13 years with the company. Goldberg was hired by Endemol founder John De Mol in 2000. Under Goldberg's leadership, Endemol USA has grown to become …