An additional three half-hours as well as a 26-part series are being developed based on Stories from the Seventh Fire, the half-hour kids’ program which was awarded a Telefilm/TVNC Aboriginal Production Award at last month’s Banff Television Festival….

High River, Alta: While Calgary has become known as the location shoot for the long-running American kids’ show Honey I Shrunk the Kids, it now boasts an indigenous Canadian family series….

Sullivan Entertainment’s recently initiated public offering could be in jeopardy with the recent public announcements by the heirs of Lucy Maud Montgomery Macdonald’s estate relating to a long-running claim against Sullivan over profits from the Anne of Green Gables movies; and…

The National Screen Institute-Canada has partnered with Telus to launch an online database on the film and tv industry….

Recently launched CanWest Entertainment International, the London, Eng.-based distribution arm of Toronto’s Fireworks Entertainment, will focus its sales efforts on live-action, half-hour kids’ and family programming and one-hour, primetime action-adventure series, says president Greg Phillips….

Valerie Creighton has been named acting general manager of Saskatchewan funding agency Saskfilm after the board of directors decided not to renew the contract of Don Archbold, who held the position of gm for one year….

CHUM Ltd. has acquired a 40% equity stake in Toronto-based Sleeping Giant Productions, a producer of arts, education and spiritual programming….

Alliance Atlantis Communications has announced the details of a new executive development training program to be managed by the Banff Television Festival. aac will provide $1.8 million over six years to develop the Alliance Atlantis Banff Television Executive Program, which will…

Toronto-based Loten Media and Saskatchewan’s Partners In Motion have inked a deal to coproduce a 26-part children’s stop-motion series, Dear Tildy, which features a kangaroo and her zany neighborhood friends whose travels take them across the map….

The National Screen Institute-Canada is launching a new program aimed at increasing the marketing and deal-making savvy of Canadian producers hitting the international festival circuit….

The funding cycle at the Canadian Television Fund has wrapped with the announcement of $15.8 million in Licence Fee Program support for documentary projects, bringing the final tally of eip and lfp commitments to $192 million for this fiscal….

A 30-hour documentary mega-project, Canada: A People’s History, is among the highlights of cbc’s 1999/2000 season lineup, which also includes four new drama and three comedy series and a slate of nine tv movies….