• James Gandolfini could step in for Patrick Huard in more ways than one on HBO’s Taxi 22. The former Sopranos star is among the executive producers attached to the developing series and according to Variety could also take the lead — playing a politically incorrect cabbie in New York City. Huard both stars in and produces the TVA series, Taxi 0-22, upon which the U.S. version is based. He will also exec produce the HBO show.

• Google has bought Bump Technologies, fuelling speculation that the search giant will apply the 3D desktop software made by the Toronto high-tech darlings to its Android operating system and mobile devices. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

• Former prime minister Kim Campbell will reportedly make a cameo appearance on VisionTV’s upcoming sitcom She’s the Mayor.

• Comweb Group plans to open a $20 million facility in Toronto that will house William F. White International and other production support businesses including Bill White’s 3D Camera Company. The 338,000 square-foot William F. White Centre will be near the new Cinespace Studios and other soundstages in Toronto’s west end.

• Ann Rohmer is stepping down from CP24, ending some 25 years at the former Citytv building in Toronto. Rohmer, who started out at CBC, joined the City sports team in the mid ’80s before going on to co-host Breakfast Television. She has worked for CP24 since 2001, sidestepping to CTV when it bought CHUM. She currently anchors the news desk and hosts shows including Hot Property and Animal House Calls. She leaves in mid-June for a new job ‘outside the broadcast industry.’

• Trotsky multi-talent Jacob Tierney is adapting Doris Lessing’s 1985 novel The Good Terrorist for producer Niv Fichman, says Brendan Kelly of the Montreal Gazette. According to Kelly’s blog, the story — originally about London squatters and the IRA — will replace Irish unionists with Quebec separatists, moving the action to the October Crisis of 1970.

• John Rutherford is now VP of international sales and acquisitions at Tricon Films & Television, responsible, with Carrie Mudd, for its scripted and catalogue, with a ‘long-term plan’ to expand its kids division.