World Screen

NEW YORK: More than 100 million cable, satellite and telco customers in the U.S. are gaining access to live streaming content of the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, by verifying their accounts through NBCOlympics.com. There will be more than 1,000 hours of live streaming Olympics coverage available to …

LOS ANGELES: FOX Sports has renewed its exclusive U.S. and Caribbean media rights for three seasons of the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League, two of the world’s most prestigious soccer tournaments. The partnership between the broadcaster and the UEFA, Europe’s governing body of soccer, will allow FOX …

NEW YORK/SANTA MONICA: Miramax and The Weinstein Company (TWC) have entered into a new multi-year deal for the co-production and co-distribution of projects derived from the Miramax library as well as original content. Films from the partnership will be released in the U.S. by TWC and sold internationally by Miramax. …

PORT WASHINGTON: According to The NPD Group, big box-office titles, franchise movies and current TV series are the most streamed content on subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) services such as Netflix and Amazon Instant Video. From January through October, the top three ranked TV series streamed on SVOD services were all shows …

SHERMAN OAKS: ITV Studios America is aligning with Justin Killion, most recently the senior VP of development at Original Productions, in an overall deal for non-scripted content and a first-look agreement for scripted. The partnership has Killion committed to creating, developing and executive producing TV programming with ITV Studios America. …

BEVERLY HILLS: Netflix has tapped Jane Wiseman, previously with Chernin Entertainment as senior VP of comedy, as a senior executive of original programming. Wiseman will report to Cindy Holland, the VP of original content at Netflix. During her time at Chernin, Wiseman helped to produce shows such as New Girl …

NEW YORK: The TV viewing audience of The Blacklist on NBC increased by nearly 7.8 million viewers from the live audience with time-shifted viewing, according to Nielsen's Tops of 2013 list, which also includes social ranking via Twitter. The Following was number two on Nielsen's list of the most time-shifted …

CUPERTINO: Apple has unveiled this year's iTunes Best of 2013 list, which has Breaking Bad as the most-downloaded TV-related program of the year. Breaking Bad The Final Season, Deluxe Edition was on top in the TV category for downloads on iTunes, followed by season three of Downton Abbey and season …

LOS ANGELES: Pivot has acquired all back episodes of the cult hit series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Veronica Mars, which will air in a block with back-to-back episodes on the network Mondays through Fridays starting at 10 p.m. Buffy was picked up in a deal with Twentieth Century Fox, …

NEW YORK: El Rey Network and General Motors have entered into an alliance for 2014 that will see exclusive automotive integrations featured in all the network's original programming. The agreement kicks off with the upcoming Robert Rodriguez project From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, which will feature a number of …