Montreal: Radio-Canada leads the nominations for the upcoming Prix Gemeaux with its cancelled comedy about four drag queens, Cover Girl, topping the list with 12 nods, including best comedy series and two best director noms, for François Bouvier and Louis Choquette. The sitcom by Sphère Média Plus is followed closely by SRC’s nightclub drama Minuit, le soir and its mystery series La Chambre No. 13 with 10 each.

Montreal: Guy A. Lepage and his producers at Montreal’s Avanti Ciné Vidéo have reached an out-of-court deal with JWTwo Entertainment in their dispute over Love Bites, the U.S. adaptation of Avanti’s hit sitcom Un gars, une fille.

Montreal filmmaker Frederic Bohbot structured his documentary Once a Nazi as a mystery – so viewers could make up their own minds about former Concordia professor Adalbert Lallier and his controversial past.

Montreal, QC: Although she is already thoroughly exposed – in more ways than one – in her native Quebec, X-rated TV personality Anne-Marie Losique will show even more of herself in the forthcoming Adventures of a Real Life Bimbo.

Montreal: Cirrus Communications is billing Nitro, the French-language feature now shooting in Montreal, as a Quebec version of The Fast and the Furious.

Of the many Canadian films at this year’s WFF, one of the most noteworthy was That Beautiful Somewhere, a neo-noir thriller starring Quebec bright light Roy Dupuis that made its debut on Aug. 26.

Recent fall seasons in Quebec have seen increasingly heated showdowns between its two big networks, market leader TVA and public broadcaster Radio-Canada.

The 2006 edition of the ever-expanding Atlantic Film Festival looks to be the largest ever – and will put new titles by Sarah Polley and Michael Mabbott on the big screen while playing matchmaker with filmmakers from Australia, South Africa and other territories.

After threatening to stop making big-budget dramas, Quebec’s largest private television network, TVA, has ordered a third season of the lavish historic series Nos étés.

After portraying hockey hero Maurice ‘The Rocket’ Richard, actor Roy Dupuis will play another Canadian icon-in-the-making, starring as Roméo Dallaire in the $10-million adaptation of Shake Hands with the Devil, the former lieutenant-general’s award-winning memoir.

For the first time in its history, the Banff World Television Festival will award a French-speaking Quebecer its top comedy prize.

Maurice ‘The Rocket’ Richard, the Montreal Canadiens player who shot to national super-stardom in the 1940s, will bring even more hockey to the nation this NHL playoff season with the spring rollout of The Rocket (titled Maurice Richard in Quebec).

On April 21, an English-subtitled The Rocket will open on an unprecedented 115 screens in English Canada – the biggest national movie release of a French-Canadian film in the history of its distributor, Alliance Atlantis.