Raise the Roof Productions’ co-creative director Andrew Jackson on how the company tweaked Big Coat Productions’ format Love It or List It for the U.K. market.
Olsen (pictured), the executive producer of documentaries at CBC News Network, is to leave the Canadian pubcaster after more than 20 years.
The Toronto-headquartered rights management firm has acquired music agency Jingle Punks in a deal that will merge the companies’ production libraries. (Pictured L-R: Jingle Punks founders Jared Gutstadt, Dan Demole)
Distributor Blue Ant International is rolling out a slate of 4K nature and wildlife docuseries, including The Big Feed (pictured), Volcanos and Arctic Secrets.
Montreal’s Media Ranch picks up the rights to remake the Studio Lambert format Life in the Kitchen (pictured) in Canada.
Michael Mabbot’s Canadian doc Music Lessons and the Canada/USA copro Mavis! are among the titles set to screen in the Toronto festival’s Special Presentations program.
Tricon Films and Television has secured a raft of global sales for the crime series To Catch a Killer (pictured) and I Didn’t Do It.
Robert Cohen’s film about national identity and Violeta Ayala’s drug smuggling doc will screen alongside Sundance-award winners (T)ERROR and How to Change the World.
Schwartz (pictured) is promoted from president of entertainment and media to network president, with the added oversight of business operations.
Lone Eagle Entertainment has named Allison Brough, most recently with Tricon Films & Television, as its director of development.
The six-part series from Toronto’s Shark Teeth Entertainment will air on the U.S. net this month.
After seven years heading the Documentary Organization of Canada, executive director Lisa Fitzgibbons (pictured) will vacate the position on Dec. 31.