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Matt Sylvain
Si Entertainment acquires three unscripted titles
The Toronto-based company has added to its distribution catalogue Employee of the Week, It’s All About Me and Majumder Manor (pictured).
Will Arnett to get Banff fest distinction award
With the accolade Arnett joins past recipients including Paul Haggis, Howie Mandel, Erick McCormack and Martin Short for the Canuck-only award.
Canadian Social TV top 3 – week of Jan. 13
In this, the second weekly installment of new Playback exclusive list of top Canadian-made programs based on Seevibes’ social media index, we see how Lost Girl beat Heartland by comfortable margin.
Weekly roundup: Festival news, nominations and TV premieres
Among other news this week, Sarah Polley’s Stories We Tell (pictured) got into New York’s New Directors/New Films Festival, GLAAD handed nominations to Degrassi and The L.A. Complex and Hot Docs launches a new Doc Ignite campaign.
Canadian Social TV top 3 – week of Jan. 6
To help readers get a better grasp of the impact of social media on Canadian-made TV programming, Playback has partnered with Seevibes to provide a weekly look at Canadian Social TV. This is the first installment.
Canuck post-houses net VFX award nods
Vancouver’s Image Engine is up for a Visual Effects Society prize for its work on Zero Dark Thirty (pictured) while Toronto’s Intelligent Creatures is up for a prize for its work on Discovery’s Curiosity.
Blog: 2013 off to bountiful start for scripted sector
Reports of the imminent death of linear TV appear greatly exaggerated as a wave of new scripted comedies and dramas show Canada’s big broadcasters are still spending on marquee programs.
Mosaic names Jesse Lipscombe as new partner, exec producer
Lipscombe, who has been a pro athlete, actor and retail-business entrepreneur, will spearhead “new partnerships and business models,” according to Mosaic.
ACTRA members ratify new Independent Production Agreement
The new pact spanning all film, TV and new media production nationally, except in separately negotiated British Columbia, includes a 6% increase in pay over three years.
Weekly roundup: Award nominations and premiere dates
Among other recent news, Christian Cooke and Brad Zoern (pictured), a Deluxe Toronto mixing team, have been nominated for a Cinema Audio Society award for their work on Hatfields & McCoy’s.
CRTC OKs new channels, Vancouver VOD service
The new channels consist of HGTV Canada spin-off Quest and Fight Media’s The League, an offering that targets die-hard fantasy sports league players.
Cameras roll on Muse’s ABC Family TV movie
The Christmas-spirited Home Again (working title) is to be completed in time for broadcast during the U.S. network’s annual countdown to Christmas campaign that starts in November.
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