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MIPCOM: Bell Media pacts with Mark Burnett, Omnicom for formats
The joint venture includes MGM’s United Artists Media Group and Hearst Entertainment. (Phil King, president, CTV, sports, and entertainment programming at Bell Media pictured.)
Eugene Levy on why Canadian comedy doesn’t need Americanizing
MIPCOM: Funny is funny, the Hollywood comic actor told Playback Daily while promoting Schitt’s Creek to international buyers in Cannes. (Eugene and Dan Levy pictured.)
MIPCOM: Peace Point goes online to battle TV competition formats
As young people go to YouTube and Vimeo for new music discovery, the new series will use the internet to build to a TV finale. (Pictured: Peace Point president Les Tomlin.)
MIPCOM: APTN’s Guardians Evolution takes on the world
Producer Doug Cuthand tells Playback how an international approach to his Canadian stop-motion series helped save its second season.
German VFX producer Trixter Film opens Toronto shop
The visual effects and animation studio will be run by Michael Gianfriddo and Ken Mandeville. (2013’s Iron Man 3, a film on which Trixter worked, pictured.)
MIPCOM: Muse to produce The Kennedys – After Camelot miniseries
Corus and U.S.-based ReelzChannel have ordered the four-episode project, to be shot in Toronto. (Pictured: 2011’s The Kennedys.)
Alexandra Wermester joins digital distributor Juice
The former Filmoption International exec will oversee day-to-day business operations for the multi-platform agency.
Lynne Kirby to leave Paperny Entertainment
As the post-merger dust settles after the Entertainment One acquisition, the factual TV producer is looking for another top U.S. development exec.
Deals: Pacific Northwest, eOne, Nelvana, Breakthrough
Pacific Northwest Pictures picks up the Canadian rights to Liv Ullman’s Miss Julie (pictured), while eOne takes the North American rights to Saar Klein’s After the Fall.
Take the Shot Productions inks first-look pact with eOne
The two-year deal between eOne and the Republic of Doyle producer starts with the book-to-TV adaptation Caught, now in development with CBC.
How Brad Pelman found a global play with Fremantle Corp.
Pelman, now the CEO of Fremantle, has pacted with Demarest Films and Kilburn Media to make unspecified equity investments in The Fremantle Corporation.
Slice, POP give Unusually Thicke second season order
The faux-reality series, produced by Toronto’s Peacock Alley Entertainment, follows Alan Thicke, wife Tanya and 17-year-old son Carter.
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