Brendan Christie

Brendan is the editor of Playback, and former editor of realscreen and Boards magazines. He has an extensive freelance resume, including work for advertising agencies as well as publications such as Strategy, Strategy: Media, KidScreen, The National Post and many others.

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Hot Sheet: Top 5 Canadian Films (December 10 – 16, 2010)

Hot Sheet: Top 5 Canadian Films (December 10 – 16, 2010)

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Hot Sheet: Top 10 Films (December 10 – 16, 2010)

Hot Sheet: Top 10 Films (December 10 – 16, 2010)

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Hot Sheet: Top 20 DVDs (November 29 – December 5, 2010)

Hot Sheet: Top 20 DVDs (November 29 – December 5, 2010)

Teletoon green-lights Fugget About It

Teletoon has green-lit Fugget About It from 9 Story Entertainment. The 13-part series is the first commissioned from the Teletoon at Night Pilot Project.

Decade in Review: Brick by Brick

eOne is building a production and distribution empire for the next decade.

Decade in Review: Editorial

While compiling the end-of-the-decade timeline for the print issue, I was suddenly struck by a deep, insightful thought: Wow, this decade really sucked.

Temple’s Being Erica heads to ABC

Temple Street is bringing Erica to America. The Toronto prodco has announced that its hit CBC drama Being Erica has been picked up for adaptation by US network ABC.

Ingram to step down from Daily Planet

Long-serving Daily Planet co-host Jay Ingram has announced that he will step down at the end of this season to serve as a contributor to Discovery Channel.

Giamatti and Spacey get Golden noms for Canuck films

Two American actors in Canadian films are in contention for the Best Performance by an Actor (Comedy or Musical) category at the upcoming 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards.

Editorial: Why I hated the 5% target

…My problem with the 5% target is that all it served to do was quantify our defeat. It put a lackluster number to our aspirations and made us look amateur when we failed to live up to it…

PS Productions’ Dales to be remembered at memorial

A memorial will be held this weekend for Douglas James Dales, who passed away last Friday at age 60. Dales, who started PS Production Services in Toronto almost 40 years ago, is remembered by the industry for his love of cinema and filmmakers.

TSN names Volden and Graham to exec team

TSN has appointed two to its executive team. Ken Volden has been promoted to VP and executive producer of News and Studio Production, while Paul Graham is named VP and exec producer of live events.