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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Sutherland leading CFC training effort

Kiefer Sutherland has been placed atop a new effort at the Canadian Film Centre to train actors.

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The path to Discovery

As president and general manager of one of the country’s most recognizable specialties, Discovery Channel’s Paul Lewis has some advantages his cable cohorts don’t enjoy. But that hasn’t kept him complacent.

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CFC gets $7.5 million for upgrades

Cheques from three levels of government will renovate facilities and add three new buildings

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Sutherland leading CFC training effort

‘We want to teach them how to get work,’ says 24 star at unveiling of CFC Actors Conservatory

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Cineflix’s Simon Lloyd: With a little help from my friends

The first thing you’re struck by when you enter Simon Lloyd’s office are the white boards hanging on his wall – each covered in neat rows of colored ink, warding against the chaos that accompanies a 250-hour-strong slate.

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Fine tuning

With the world going to hell in an economic hand basket, it was a given that this year’s upfronts were going to be more homey affairs.

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Allan King 1930-2009

The filmmaker and documentary legend has succumbed to brain cancer…

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The specialist: Canwest programmer Daniel Eves

Almost lost in the coverage of Canwest’s much-publicized troubles is the success the media giant has had with its specialties, both homegrown and those acquired in 2008 from Alliance Atlantis.

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CTV says yes to Hiccups, Dan

What a very slight difference a year makes. CTV on Tuesday unveiled a fall schedule almost unchanged…

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Huge gains and losses mark seesaw year

It certainly wasn’t the best of times. But it wasn’t the worst of times either. It could have been so much worse.

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The unions address the renewal hearings

Although he’s proven himself to be no lightweight in recent months, CRTC chair Konrad von Finckenstein doesn’t appear to be prone to fits of gratuitous violence. That was made evident recently at the CRTC’s licence renewal hearings for private over-the-air broadcasters, when CFTPA national EVP and counsel John Barrack suggested the CRTC ‘give everyone a nudge’ – meaning broadcasters, of course – to honestly negotiate on terms of trade.

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The unions address the renewal hearings

Although he’s proven himself to be no lightweight in recent months, CRTC chair Konrad von Finckenstein doesn’t appear to be prone to fits of gratuitous violence. That was made evident recently at the CRTC’s licence renewal hearings for private over-the-air broadcasters, when CFTPA national EVP and counsel John Barrack suggested the CRTC ‘give everyone a nudge’ – meaning broadcasters, of course – to honestly negotiate on terms of trade.