Canada’s old kid on the youth net block, ytv, has greenlit over $117 million worth of production, stepping up its role as coproducer or producer on several of its fall launches. ytv’s new preschool shows debut Sept. 7 and the rest…

In Canada, teletoon has offered a skedful of animated slot opportunity, and internationally, the potential foster homes for toons have also been busily populating the dial….

Older skews, edgier styles and generally more sophisticated graphic design – 2D, 3D, goth animation – are among the trends spotted in the aisles of the mifa animation market in Annecy last month, and confirmed by broadcasters’ upcoming skeds….

Funding arts programming has always been a real workout, and for performing arts shows whose underlying music is not Canadian and thus are cut out of the ‘distinctly Canadian’ higher level of funding, another curveball has been thrown out there for…

Spot director Steve Chase and Rick Davis, MacLaren McCann’s chief creative officer and exec vp, must have a thing about chimps, and Davis is adamant that you don’t go around calling them monkeys, either….

– Citytv’s Gallagher goes national on TSN…

Sprockets director/programmer Jane Schoettle has unveiled her picks for the inaugural Sprockets screenings April 21-26. The Toronto International Film Festival for Children’s lineup includes 14 features and 34 shorts from 16 countries spanning 11 languages (subtitled films are narrated), with the…

New Orleans: Nelvana has named Sidney A. Kaufman executive vp worldwide marketing for Nelvana Communications, the Toronto-based company’s u.s. subsidiary. Kaufman joins Nelvana from Total Licensing Services, a full-service licensing and merchandising company which he founded in 1994. He will continue…

The client: Nickelodeon wanted a series of 3D shorts – two 15s and a 20-second bumper – for its NoggleVision primetime slot which necessitates viewers don those cool 3D goggles….

Canada’s Year of Asia Pacific is a many-faceted cultural and commercial celebration that is taking place throughout 1997 across Canada. Since the aim of the cyac is to further cultural and business ties, one of the components is a tv commercial…

Rob Thompson, an Ottawa-based producer from Winter Films, is having the curious experience of watching his one-hour doc turn into a media event which he describes as bigger than the actual $80,000 documentary itself….

Feature this. Row upon row of munchkins sucking back their milk portions out of maggotsÉ? Unfortunately, you’ll have to wait a while before Maurice the maggot thermoses flip out of Freaky Stories lunch boxes at a cafeteria near you, – with…