World Screen

NEW YORK: Philippe Dauman has signed an extension of his employment agreement with Viacom to remain president and CEO through December 31, 2018. The extension adds a further two years to Dauman’s previous contract, which ran through December 31, 2016. Dauman has held the post since September 2006 and has …

NEW YORK: Time Inc. has launched Daily Cut, a new video platform offering live and on-demand original content, along with a library of more than 1,500 hours of programming from the company’s brands. The service is available as a native app on iOS, Android and the Roku platform, as well …

NEW YORK: NBCUniversal is launching an Audience Targeting Platform (ATP), which will use TV viewing and consumer behavioral data to identify the best inventory available for advertising clients across its portfolio of networks. NBCU will incorporate set-top-box viewing data from several third-party sources with first- and third-party consumer data to …

UNIVERSAL CITY: Charlize Theron’s Denver & Delilah Films has entered into a first-look deal with Universal Cable Productions (UCP) to develop and produce scripted programming. The deal marks Theron’s creative growth into scripted television. The projects will be developed and produced for the portfolio of networks across NBCUniversal and externally. …

LOS ANGELES: Ahead of its series premiere, The Royals has already received a second-season order from E! Entertainment, which is also giving a sophomore run to House of DVF. The Royals, which stars Elizabeth Hurley, is E!'s first original scripted series. The show makes its first season premiere on March …

PASADENA: Bravo Media has made a number of renewals, including for Flipping Out and The Real Housewives of Orange County, and has expanded its scripted slate with the development of The One. Bravo's second original scripted series, Odd Mom Out, is set to debut June 8. The network has also …

NEW YORK: Simon Andreae is stepping down as head of alternative programming for FOX, to be succeeded by Electus’s Corie Henson. Henson has been named executive VP of alternative entertainment, overseeing the network’s slate of unscripted programming, specials and development. She will also lead development efforts to expand FOX’s pipeline …

PASADENA: FOX has renewed the freshman dramas Empire and Gotham as well as the comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine, in addition to revealing the all-star casts in place for its live Grease musical event and upcoming anthology series Scream Queens. Empire is averaging a 5.3 rating in Nielsen’s Most Current measure, emerging …

PASADENA: FX is teaming up with Louis C.K. on the new comedy pilot Better Things, created by and starring Louie alum Pamela Adlon. C.K. and Adlon will executive produce and co-write the pilot, about a single mom navigating life’s up and downs, with C.K. also set to direct. Adlon is …

UNIVERSAL CITY: Among the new projects revealed by NBC are a half-hour comedy starring Eva Longoria, a miniseries about the Underground Railroad executive produced by Stevie Wonder and a slate of movies developed in partnership with Dolly Parton. Longoria, best known from her role in the long-running ABC series Desperate …