* Taryn Manning and Wes Bentley have joined the cast of Allan Moyle’s Weirdsville, set to get underway next month in and around Hamilton, ON for Darius Films.

* The flagship series of MTV Canada will be MTV Live, set to air Monday to Friday from CTV’s Masonic Temple studios in Toronto. An airdate and hosts have not been named.

* CBC has ordered two pilots of the behind-the-scenes hockey drama MVP from Screen Door (Shades of Black, Prom Queen).

* Jet Li (Unleashed) and Jason Statham (The Transporter) are shooting the action feature Rogue in Vancouver until April 28. Prolific music video director Phillip Atwell is helming for Lionsgate Films.

* Cheap and Dirty Productions is shooting The Safer Sex Trade, an hour about Canada’s ‘contradictory attitude to prostitution,’ in Vancouver until May, for CBC’s The Lens.