Vancouver: The elimination of tax shelters on production services’ limited partnerships in last month’s federal budget has Western producers scrambling to find alternative means of attracting private investment to salvage deals with American producers….

It’s below zero in Edmonton,…

Tax shelter axing ‘pulls the rug out from under’ many companies…

Antonucci gears up to direct MTV series The Brothers Grunt…

Vancouver: Producer Nick Orchard is about to become the sole owner of Soapbox Productions, producer of the teen dramatic series Northwood. By month’s end, a deal will be finalized which allows Orchard to buy out his partner in the five-year-old company,…

Although interactive programming is creating the latest buzz in the production industry, Shane Lunny of Lunny Productions insists most programs currently being produced are ‘dumb, slow and just plain obvious. ‘…

It’s not like any show you’ve ever seen,’ says Michael Chechik executive producer of the dramatic children’s series The Odyssey. Now in its second season on the cbc, the show has garnered four Gemini nominations, including Best Youth Program or Series….

It was an about-face for the writers who brought us the glossy urban angst of E.N.G. But Wayne Grigsby and Barbara Samuels have another winner in North of 60, Alliance Communications’ new dramatic series about the daily conflicts between the aboriginal…

Top cat Disney ponders B.C. move while ‘Billy’ copes with life as a cat…

A fight on their hands…

Vancouver: Needless to say, local producers were hastily adjusting their travel plans to l.a. this month after that city’s latest devastating earthquake which registered a whopping 6.6 on the Richter scale, convincing everyone from San Diego to as far north as…

Vancouver: Financial accountability and regional autonomy remain the primary bones of contention in the recent breakdown of a signed merger agreement between rival labor organizations, the Union of B.C. Performers and actra….