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Family Channel tests new broadcast strategy for The Next Step
Following the series’ season three premiere on March 16, the channel will air a new episode every weeknight until the mid-season finale in April.
The Exhibition wins CSA’s 2015 Diversity Award
The prize will be presented at the Canadian Screen Awards Television and Digital Media gala on Feb. 24.
Bitten to get Space’s first after-show series
Space will bow its new, original after-show series Innerspace: After Bite following the season two premiere of Bitten on Feb. 7.
Deals: Shomi, Bell Media, Picture Box, 9 Story
Shomi has picked up the exclusive Canadian SVOD rights to Outlander (pictured), and more deals from the week.
White Pine preps ‘Politics of Power’ for TVO, schools
Peter Raymont says he hopes this documentary will have the same legs his 1978 doc, The Art of the Possible, did in the educational system. (Pictured L to R: Roxana Spicer, Ontario Premiere Kathleen Wynne and Peter Raymont)
Coming Soon: The Backward Class
Robin Smith of Blue Ice Docs on his theatrical distribution strategy for The Backwards Class, winner of the 2014 Hot Docs Audience Award.
Bell Media inks Showtime deal
The agreement between Bell Media and CBS will bring Showtime content to CraveTV and a branded programming block on TMN (Showtime series The Affair pictured).
Jeffrey St. Jules wins Claude Jutra Award
The prize, which recognizes an outstanding debut from a first-time filmmaker, will be presented to St. Jules during the Canadian Screen Awards broadcast on March 1.
Disney XD Canada picks up second season of Gaming Show
After a high-performing six-episode bow, DHX Television is upping its commission and moving the series into primetime.
Zone3 picks up rights to Keshet’s Girlfri3nds
The Montreal-based prodco will produce a French-language version of the reality dating show for Bell Media’s VRAK channel. (Image from the original Israeli version of the show pictured.)
APTN puts Jeff Barnaby, Sam Egan series into development
The series from Rezolution Pictures aims to reimagine the family crime drama through a Native lens (Barnaby pictured).
Proper’s Brett & Cliff Go To Hell greenlight for History
Following a successful pilot broadcast in December, History has given the go-ahead to a short run of the adventure reality show.
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