*Christmas presence for Atlantis’ Borrowed Hearts…

Deciphering the ratings data coming from the networks is no walk in the park. Baton supplies audience numbers for Ontario. Global and wic offer ratings for the Toronto/Hamilton graph, and cbc and ctv get total audience figures for the whole country….

Blackjack, the second project from Alliance Communications and director John Woo, is in production in the gta this month. The series pilot is being shot feature film-style on 35mm and using between four and seven cameras per scene. The action-heavy drama…

Call it a blue-sky meeting for the tv business in Canada, those three days earlier this month when the Canadian Association of Broadcasters, Global, Baton, wic, chum and the cftpa trundled to Hull, Que. to discuss their respective realities with the…

Given government cutbacks and its current distribution arrangement, Television Northern Canada chairman Abraham Tagalik says tvnc has reached a crossroads and has about a year to survive….

Fairchild is satiated, Vision tv in pursuit, and TMN-The Movie Network reportedly considering its options after precedent-setting action from the crtc on the cable ‘realignment’ of Chinavision….

*Handful of Mercury…

TV types worried that the Heritage Minister’s considerable energy could be diverted from the renewal of the ctcpf by demands from other sectors of the entertainment industry, appear to have little cause for concern….

*Specialty ‘postmortem’ looming…

In This Report:…

Implement: to complete, fulfill, put into effect. Deploy: to spread out, bring into effective action….

When we left the story: Steel City Productions is in development with its $1.8-million feature film Stand Up Guys, an action/comedy about five stand-up comics thwarted in their attempt to rob a bank….