Intelligent Creatures is about to triple in size. The post company behind VFX in Hollywood titles such as The Game Plan and Hairspray is moving from a 3,000-square-foot space to a 10,000-square-foot studio in Toronto’s Beach area at the end of October.

Principal photography is underway in Edmonton on the sci-fi action/comedy Freezer Burn: The Invasion of Laxdale, starring funnyman Tom Green

Liz Marshall says she looked to the example of Allan King and his doc Dying at Grace during the seven-week shoot for Women: The Face of AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa.

Filmmaker looked to the example of Allan King when shooting last of three docu-shorts for the Stephen Lewis Foundation

Following his roving-reporter stint on Canadian Idol, Ottawa-born comedian Jon Dore is working double duty as host and creator on a new skit, comedy and interview series for The Comedy Network, The Jon Dore Show. Inspired by the likes of Late Night with Conan O’Brien and featuring Toronto-based sketch comedy acts such as Knock Knock, Who’s There? Comedy!, the half-hour series will bow on the cable channel on Oct. 18 for a 13-episode run.

The fourth annual Television Animation Conference, the two-day offshoot of the Ottawa International Animation Festival (Sept. 19-20), will attract about 250 industry execs looking for the next step in producing stellar content for all screens sizes, from mobile to HD.

Comic and Canadian Idol roving reporter testing his limits in new series for Comedy Network, with help from John Brunton at Insight

Ad exec-turned filmmaker Bill Keenan has attracted Peter Keleghan and Leah Pinsent to his surviving-in-the-wild feature comedy Eating Buccaneers

Almost six years after it was pitched in the wake of Sept. 11, The Border has gone to camera for CBC’s midseason slate. The series, a high-action drama that follows Canadian agents on the front line of immigration policing, has a lot of things ‘blowing up and high production values,’ according to executive producer Peter Raymont, ‘but it has a conscience,’ too.

The CBC action drama will arrive in new year with costar Sophia Milos of CSI: Miami and an online component by Stitch Media’s Evan Jones, says Peter Raymont of White Pine Pictures