Taimur Sikander Mirza

Taimur Sikander Mirza is senior reporter at Playback. His previous experience includes managing TRT World's award-winning digital video and series team in Istanbul, as well as writer and senior editor roles at Dawn Media Group in Karachi, where he covered breaking news, sports and culture.

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Hot Sheet

Hot Sheet: Love is Blind breaks into top three

Hazbin Hotel continued its dominance of the demand charts with another surge in demand.

CBC Kids renews Bestest Day Ever with My Best Friend!

Lopii Productions will go into production on the preschool series’ second season in April.

Aircraft Pictures adapting sci-fi novel Non-Stop for TV

U.K. filmmaker Jamie Magnus Stone is attached to write and direct the series based on Brian W. Aldiss’ 1958 novel.

Animation proves vital to NFB, Banger Films Jackie Shane doc

The filmmaking team behind Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story discuss navigating a maze of challenges to make the doc as it debuts at SXSW.

Radio-Canada names Sophie Morasse as GM of television

Morasse had been serving in the role in an interim capacity since October 2023.

In Brief: Three Canadian projects selected for Hot Docs Forum

Plus: Mehdi Bereddad wins the $10,000 RBC Short Film Pitch Competition, Anastasiia Starova is selected for the Writers Campus at Series Mania, and more.

Indie exhibitors say more funding is needed to remain open: report

Nearly 60% of the exhibitors surveyed by the Network of Independent Canadian Exhibitors say they operated at a loss at the end of the most recent financial year.

Hot Docs selects three Canadian titles for Special Presentations

The Canadian docs making their world premieres include Neil Diamond and Catherine Bainbridge’s Red Fever and Jon Ornoy’s Lost in the Shuffle.

France Televisions acquires About Antoine

The series is created by Cathleen Rouleau and produced by ComediHa! Productions.

Hot Sheet

Hot Sheet: Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender soars in demand

NBC’s Saturday Night Live moved to the second spot on the TV chart after a spike in demand.

Women In the Director’s Chair sets spring/summer CAM cohort

WIDC has selected eight directors for the 2024 spring/summer session, running from March to July.

CMF releases first demographic report based on Persona-ID data

The CMF said the report represents a single year of data, and does not “explicitly identify inequities, data gaps, or underrepresentation.”