In the past year, Sony Pictures Entertainment has moved aggressively to expand its U.S. and international television businesses, acquiring two production companies and offering more new local-language series to foreign markets.

This week, Sony is expected to announce that it is combining its domestic and international television divisions, a move that its executives hope will make it quicker to capture new formats and programming ideas overseas and more efficient at moving its U.S. series to international markets.

"This business has become one market around the globe," said Michael Lynton, the chairman and chief executive of Sony Pictures Entertainment, "and if you don't have a coordinated strategy under one individual, you don't get the most out of your content or formats around the globe."

The newly combined units would be overseen by Steve Mosko, who formerly was in charge of Sony's U.S. television business and who would now also supervise the international operations, as well as Sony Pictures Television's syndication, cable and network businesses.

Michael Grindon, who oversaw the international division, would now report to Mr. Mosko. The combination was expected to result in some duplication of departments, but a Sony executive said no layoffs were planned.

As the biggest television producer that is not directly affiliated with a broadcast network, Sony occupies a special spot in the field. Many of its competitors have recently realigned their businesses to produce content almost exclusively for their affiliated networks.

Sony, meanwhile, has series on the air or in development with all of the major networks and several cable outlets. It has 11 scripted series running on cable networks and four on other networks, including "Damages" on FX and the new series "The Unusuals" on ABC.

It also produces the game shows "Jeopardy" and "Wheel of Fortune," and it creates international versions of American comedies, including a local-language version of...