World Screen

PASADENA: Revolt Live is scheduled to premiere on January 27 as the flagship show of Sean Combs' music network. Revolt Live will air live shows at 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. daily. The original, one-hour series will feature special guests, artists and live performances. It will highlight the most talked …

PASADENA: Comedy Central has ordered the weekly animated series Moonbeam City and the scripted show Big Time in Hollywood, FL. Moonbeam City is created and executive produced by Scott Gairdner (Conan, Funny or Die), and is executive produced by Olive Bridge Entertainment's Will Gluck and Richard Schwartz. Rob Lowe also …

PASADENA: El Rey Network has licensed the cable rights for Starsky & Hutch, Dark Angel and The X-Files, and struck a separate deal with Mark Burnett that involves Lucha Libre wrestling. Burnett and El Rey Network are teaming up to create a new sports business in the U.S. featuring Lucha …

LOS ANGELES: FOX has entered into a strategic alliance with The Lonely Island to form a new alternative comedy development venture. Through the new venture, The Lonely Island will oversee the development of comedy projects that will be incubated through digital platforms such as Hulu and Roku. The ultimate goal …

ATLANTA: The Weather Channel is no longer available on DIRECTV in the U.S., after the two were unable to reach an agreement on a market-based carriage deal. The channel went dark at 12:01 a.m. for nearly 20 million viewers. Over the weekend, The Weather Channel had asked its viewers to …

STAMFORD/NEW YORK: The board of directors at Time Warner Cable has unanimously rejected Charter Communications' $61 billion takeover offer, calling the proposal "grossly inadequate." This is Charter's third attempt to merge with TWC. It first offered cash and stock valued at around $114 in June and $127 in October. Its …

PASADENA: FOX is planning to skip out on the annual TV-pilot process, according to Kevin Reilly, the chairman of entertainment at Fox Broadcasting Company. "We are essentially this year, really for the first time, bypassing pilot season," Reilly told reporters at the TCA. "The broadcasting, development and scheduling system was …

NEW YORK: Ashley Bowling Kraska has been named VP of NBCUniversal Television & New Media Distribution for the U.S. and Canada. Kraska has been serving as director of the division since September 2010. She was responsible for selling TV and film content to niche and emerging linear and digital networks, …

SANTA MONICA: Miramax has hired Zanne Devine as executive VP of production and development for its TV and film efforts. Devine reports to Thomas Barrack, Jr., the chairman of Miramax, and Steve Schoch, the company's CEO. He will lead content acquisitions, production and development at the studio, overseeing both film …

LOS ANGELES: The marketing analytics firm MarketShare has found that TV ads were more effective when combined with Twitter paid advertising. The study by MarketShare focused specifically on new mobile service subscribers in the U.K. It found that for mobile carriers, TV advertising generated new customers at an average of …