Hasta La Creative!

Investments in mythical kingdoms and alien invasions are paying off for Time Warner, which posted an 87 percent jump in income after it increased spending on original programming.

Profits also soared in the latest quarter at the newly independent Fox entertainment arm.

From a sleepy movie channel to an incubator of signature television, AMC is hoping to seize the moment and create new, profitable hits.

Better ratings at the children’s network raised revenue, as did streaming services like Amazon and Hulu.

The channel, a joint venture of ABC News and Univision, has broadened its target audience to include millennials as well as bilingual Latinos.

Comcast’s second-quarter earnings rose to $1.7 billion, exceeding analysts’ estimates, helped by the continued growth of the company’s broadband Internet and business products.

A high-stakes battle between the cable company and CBS over fees caused the network’s programming to be blacked out in some cities for a half-hour.

Netflix has given a good shaking to the settled world of television: it has provided its own series, streamed them over the Internet and made them available all at once everywhere.

The network and cable company announced late Wednesday that they had agreed to an extension of their current contract, as they continue to wrangle over fees for CBS programs.

In an ad campaign, the network is trying to enlist the help of cable subscribers to push a fee deal through for stations in New York, Los Angeles and Dallas.