World Screen

BEVERLY HILLS: Survivor's Remorse, a comedy series from showrunner Mike O'Malley, has kicked off production in Atlanta for delivery later in the year. Survivor's Remorse spotlights the life of a basketball player who recently signed a multi-million-dollar contract with a professional team. The show, which stars Jessie T. Usher (Level Up), …

NEW YORK: International licensing revenues and U.S. affiliate and retrans fees were among the drivers of CBS Corporation's first-quarter financials, with profit rising to $468 million despite a slip in revenues to $3.86 billion. "I'm very pleased to be reporting record first quarter profits, driven once again by our fast-growing, …

BURBANK: ABC has renewed several of its hit shows, including Modern Family and Scandal, and has ordered a number of projects to series, among them How to Get Away with Murder, a new legal thriller from Shonda Rhimes. The network has renewed the comedies The Goldbergs and Modern Family, and …

UNIVERSAL CITY: USA Network has unveiled a development slate that includes new projects from Amy Poehler, Jodie Foster and Carlton Cuse, among others, and has announced a cast-contingent pickup of Universal Cable Productions' Stanistan. Stanistan focuses on State Department workers, covert CIA officers and journalists on the American compound in …

LOS ANGELES: Scott Garner, Tina Perry and Debi Pomerantz, senior executives at OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, have been promoted. Garner has been upped from senior VP to executive VP of scheduling and acquisitions. He will continue to manage strategic planning and scheduling of the channel and VOD platform, as well …

ARLINGTON: PBS has revealed its prime-time lineup for the fall that launches with the premiere of Ken Burns' seven-part series The Roosevelts: An Intimate History. The Roosevelts launches on September 14 with a seven-night premiere. The 14-hour documentary will air nightly at 8 p.m. through September 20. The series weaves …

LOS ANGELES: World Media Pictures is representing the new series Gilgamesh: The Immortal, based on a successful comic book published in the 1970s and ’80s in Latin America and Europe. The comic featured the story of the legendary Sumerian prince turned king, who is said to have ruled circa 2500 …

NEW YORK: Five new dramas, two event series, four comedies and one unscripted show join FOX's 2014-15 schedule, which sees Gotham airing on Mondays and Brooklyn Nine-Nine moving to Sundays. The Batman prequel Gotham is paired on Monday nights with the returning Sleepy Hollow. Tuesdays kick off with the new …

NEW YORK: NBC has revealed its revamped prime-time schedule, which sees the regular Thursday night comedy block being broken up midseason to make way for The Blacklist. Mondays see the return of The Voice at 8 p.m., this time with new coaches Pharrell Williams and Gwen Stefani, followed by The …

ATLANTA/PHILADELPHIA: Turner Broadcasting System and Comcast Corporation have signed a deal that provides Xfinity TV customers with on-demand access to current and previous seasons of programming from networks such as TBS, TNT, Cartoon Network and truTV. Starting this summer, Turner is providing full seasons of popular shows to Xfinity TV …