Kevin Ritchie

Posts by Kevin Ritchie

BNN, Bell find app-iness

Apps will migrate from the digital realm to the traditional world of television next week when the new show App Central begins airing on the Business News Network.

Big Bang Theory blows up competition

American Idol remains in second place with 2.772 million viewers.

Astral plans rebrand of Playhouse as Disney Junior

Astral Media will rebrand specialty channel Disney Playhouse as Disney Junior for cable subscribers on May 6. To hype the transformation, the company will kick off a cross-platform campaign nationwide a month earlier.

Nature of Things doc tackles the Tipping Point

“We think of ourselves as the environmental good guys in the world and we’re not. If you see some of the footage from Copenhagen at the last climate conference it really is humiliating.”

Uncovering the enigma of Glenn Gould

White Pine Pictures’ Peter Raymont reveals the genus of Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould.

National Film Board builds Highrise

Out My Window, coming to the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam this week, is a 360-degree interactive documentary from director Katerina Cizek. It’s also the first installment of the NFB’s Highrise project – a multimedia, multi-year initiative that will give viewers a glimpse behind the concrete facades of high-rise apartments around the world.