World Screen

LOS ANGELES: HBO has renewed its hit drama series Boardwalk Empire for a third season. Boardwalk Empire, set in the 1920s in the early days of Prohibition, chronicles the life of the leader of Atlantic City. The award-winning series comes from Terence Winter, the writer of The Sopranos, and director …

LOS ANGELES: Lifetime and award-winning actress and producer Renée Zellweger are developing the drama series Cinnamon Girl. Cinnamon Girl is the story of four girls who come of age during a revolution in the late-1960s/early-1970s. It was created by Zellweger and Anthony Tambakis (Warrior), who will co-write the story, and …

BURBANK: The midseason schedule of ABC includes the premiere of the new Ashley Judd drama Missing, while Cougar Town is absent from the lineup. Also missing from the schedule are Pan Am and Man Up!, Scandal and Apartment 23, which were part of ABC’s original 2011-12 season lineup have not …

LOS ANGELES: Paramount Pictures is making the Mission: Impossible movie catalogue available to rent directly from Facebook, alongside launching a new social spy game for the franchise. Mission: Impossible, Mission: Impossible II and Mission: Impossible III can be rented directly through Facebook using Facebook Credits. Consumers click the "Rent Movies" link …

NEW YORK: Forty percent of U.S. consumers indicate that they will shop for a new TV set in the next year, with the proportion of those buying for a new primary television up to 28 percent from a low of 23 percent in 2009, according to an annual survey from …

ALVISO: TiVo ended the third quarter with more than 2 million total subscribers, up 117,000 subs, which is a big spike from the loss of 33,000 subscriptions posted in the second quarter of this year. The gain is due in large part to Virgin Media now deploying the TiVo service …

BURBANK: The Walt Disney Studios has made a selection of films from Disney, Disney-Pixar and DreamWorks available to rent on YouTube. Classics such as Alice in Wonderland and the newly envisioned Winnie the Pooh are available alongside titles such as Cars and Cars 2. All four of the Pirates of …

LOS ANGELES: Prospect Park has abandoned its plans to continue the production of the long-running soap operas One Life to Live and All My Children for online distribution. Rich Frank and Jeff Kwatinetz of Prospect Park said in a statement: "After five months of negotiations with various guilds, hundreds of …

LOS ANGELES/TORONTO/PARIS: Entertainment One (eOne) has secured the U.S. distribution rights for Special Forces from StudioCanal. eOne has the rights to Special Forces in all media in English, French and Spanish, and it has already sold to Canada, Latin America, Russia, Spain, Scandinavia, Poland, Japan, Germany, Australia, Greece, Turkey, the …

LOS ANGELES: FX’s Emmy Award-winning drama Justified and the animated series Archer are both heading into third seasons in the network’s midseason 2012 schedule, alongside the launch of the new show Unsupervised. Justified is based on the works of crime novelist Elmore Leonard and was developed by Graham Yost, who …