• Hot Docs has named Elizabeth Radshaw as director of its Toronto Documentary Forum. Radshaw comes to the festival’s market event from U.K.-based distributor TVF International Television, where she was head of acquisitions. She replaces TDF founder Michaelle McLean, who stepped down in June after nine years.
• Decode Enterprises has added Emmanuelle Bon to its sales team, as territory manager for French-speaking Europe, Benelux and Scandinavia. She will work out of London.
• Toronto’s Temple Street Productions has added some pedigree to its nonfiction department, naming Allan Novak as VP of factual and reality. Novak (Punched Up) will be responsible for new, original formats and for partnering with Temple’s allies at BBC Worldwide to import U.K. formats.
• Caroline Underwood and F.M. Morrison are now senior producers on CBC’s The Nature of Things with David Suzuki. Morrison is in charge of science and technology, and has worked on CBC’s Undercurrents and The Greatest Canadian. Underwood, the new natural history senior producer, has been working with the show for 25 years.
• BBC Worldwide Canada has promoted sales execs Gwen Jones McCauley and Linda Steele. McCauley is now VP of sales and coproductions, while Steele takes over for McCauley as director of program sales.
• S-VOX has added Monique Lafontaine to its senior management team as VP of regulatory affairs, effective Nov. 24. She was previously general counsel and director of regulatory affairs for the Directors Guild of Canada.
• French-language sportscaster RDS has named Michel Blain as its new sales manager for English Canada and the U.S., moving up from account manager. The channel also named Paul Desjardins as account manager.