World Screen

NEW YORK: Sony Pictures Television has licensed the off-network rights for the NBC comedy Community to Comedy Central. The comedy returns to NBC with all-new episodes tonight at 8 p.m. The show heads to Comedy Central in fall 2013, with all three seasons set to air. "Within the chaos of …

NEW YORK: CBS has picked up 18 returning series for the 2012-2013 broadcast season, including How I Met Your Mother, Person of Interest and 2 Broke Girls. The renewals include four comedies: How I Met Your Mother, The Big Bang Theory, 2 Broke Girls and Mike & Molly; nine dramas: …

SANTA MONICA: Miramax has added Marna Grantham, the senior VP of domestic and Latin America sales, and Gloria Lee, the director of digital sales, to its international sales team today. Grantham will be based in Santa Monica and report to Joe Patrick, the head of worldwide sales. She will oversee …

NEW YORK: Fran Drescher and Peter Marc Jacobson, co-creators of the TV Land sitcom Happily Divorced, which is sold by Endemol Worldwide Distribution, talk to World Screen about the comedy’s second season.   Fran Drescher, best known from her iconic role as Nanny Fine in the long-running comedy The Nanny, …

LAS VEGAS: A look at the highlights of the 2012 NAB Show, held in Las Vegas from April 14 to 19, when nearly 200 first-time exhibitors are set to showcase at the event.   Broadcasters are constantly being challenged to come up with new ways to deliver content to their …

LOS ANGELES: Shine Group is bringing together its U.S. divisions under one single unit, to be known as Shine America. The Reveille brand, along with Shine Americas and Shine USA, will all cease exist. As part of the rebrand effort, all three will simply be known as Shine America. The …

BURBANK: Warner Bros. Television Group and the Paley Center for Media are celebrating the 60-year legacy of the Hollywood studio with a new museum retrospective at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills. The interactive, multimedia museum exhibit is called Television: Out of the Box. It will feature props, …

UNIVERSAL CITY: NBC has unveiled premiere dates for new and returning series for its summer lineup, including Love in the Wild, among others. NBC is adding Saving Hope, the new, hour-long original drama series, to its lineup. The series stars Erica Durance (Smallville), Michael Shanks (Stargate Atlantis), Daniel Gillies (The …

SANTA MONICA: Mike Lang, the CEO of Miramax, is leaving his post, though will remain a consultant to the company as it looks for a successor. Steve Schoch, Miramax’s CFO, will serve as interim CEO until a permanent replacement is named. Richard Nanula, the chairman of Miramax and a principal …

NEW YORK: EPIX is celebrating Stan Lee and his roster of legendary superheroes with Marvel Heroes Weekend, a programming stunt planned for April 27 to 29. The marathon of movies will feature Iron Man 2, the world TV premiere of Captain America: The First Avenger and the EPIX original doc With …