Patricia Bailey

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Awards show? What awards show?

Jutra organizer is miffed by the lack of coverage the annual gala gets in the English media

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Remstar moves to buy TQS

Deal revealed Monday will make producer-distributor the latest owner of troubled Quebec network

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Continental tops with four Jutras

Director Stéphane Lafleur and micro_scope take best film, directing and screenplay, finishing ahead of heavies Les 3 p’tits cochons and L’âge des ténèbres

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Bloc MP stands by his bill

Stiffer penalties needed to stem rise of violence seen on TV by children, insists Bernard Bigras, citing study at Laval University

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Telefilm, SODEC back Villeneuve

Story of war-torn Lebanon from Maelström director and Montreal’s micro_scope among pictures cashing cheques from funders

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The Greenbergs’ gamble pays off

While conventional broadcasters struggle with declining ad revenues and fickle viewers, Astral Media’s John Riley is on top of the world. The 21st century is the new age of niche TV.

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More cash for CBC, says report

Unions cheer as Heritage committee calls for stable funding at the network, but dissent among the Tories has one watchdog worried

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Producers repeat call for copro fund

Ottawa ignored its pleas for increased film and TV funding in the budget, but the APFTQ is still pushing for a separate fund to support costly but key coproductions

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Max Films revisits ice storm

A Parisian woman is cut adrift during the famous freeze of 1998 in a $6-million copro from producer Luc Vadal and France’s Agnés Obadia

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Offers in the works, says TQS

Rogers and Radio-Nord passed, but other ‘concrete offers’ are in the works for the purchase of Quebec’s struggling TQS

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Airborne wins in L.A.

Montreal shop takes prize at inaugural WAVE awards for mini cooking show Bitchin’ Kitchen

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Seville sells Everything

Somber teen suicide story Tout est parfait headed for three territories in Europe, following deal at Berlin