YOU won’t find the CBC on a multimillion-dollar spending spree for U.S. product, but this year’s fall lineup has media buyers lauding the pubcaster for the breadth of its primetime offerings, from returning comedy to new reality and family fare.

Until going fully CG is as cheap as shooting live action, we need to remember that the most important relationship on the film set will continue to be the one between the director and the cinematographer.

News flash: Uwe Boll is here to stay. According to his publicist, Bill Wanstrom, the prolific German director who recently challenged his critics to a boxing match (and won) is officially a landed immigrant. I’ll explain why this is a fantastic development for the Canadian production community.

One gets the impression in talking with renowned performer Colm Feore that only a tornado – which had ripped through his neighborhood in Stratford, ON the night before he spoke with Playback – could keep him in his living room for very long.

Given the evolution and dependency on digital technology over the past decade, it’s arguable that color correction software has become the most powerful toolset in the post-production cycle. ‘We can fix it in post’ means that day can swiftly turn to night with a few keystrokes, and dull lighting can be manipulated into a moody-toned masterpiece.

Sling Media CEO Blake Krikorian noted in his opening address at the National Association of Broadcasters 2007 mobile super session that but for one Supreme Court vote in 1975, the VCR would be illegal.

Las Vegas: While the Canadian TV market is still grappling with widespread adoption of HD, the talk as the National Association of Broadcasters conference opened earlier this month was about next-generation Ultra HDTV.

English Canada’s film industry can grow if producers step up and out of the Telefilm box

An exclusively tapeless production universe is still a few years away, but solid-state capture is here to stay. And Panasonic has now been joined by Sony, which unveiled its film magazine for the digital age at the recent National Association of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas.

Quantel’s mantra for its new workflow management system is ‘same time, same media, different suites.’

Rivals Apple and Avid reached out in different ways to the independent content producer and the professional broadcast house at NAB2007, debuting changes to both production software and asset management applications.

Eric Schmidt assures TV and radio execs at NAB2007 that his unstoppable search engine and its YouTube property will not oust traditional broadcasting