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Amazing Race Canada to return for season five

On your marks, get set, go! The popular reality competition show will return to CTV in 2017.

Cameras roll on The Disappearance

The six-part original, which is currently filming in Montreal, will air on CTV and Super Ecran.

VIFF names BC Spotlight winners

Ann Marie Fleming’s Window Horses (pictured) and Kevan Funk’s Hello Destroyer were among the projects to receive awards.

Carmilla to get the feature treatment

The U by Kotex-funded digital series, produced by Smokebomb and digital agency shift2, is being developed into a movie.

Rogers Doc and Cable Fund distributes $1.9M

Man Machine Poem: The Tragically Hip Documentary and Smart Drugs are among 29 doc projects to receive funding.

CBC heads back to high school with new docuseries

How the CBC and Paperny Entertainment rigged a B.C. high school with 48 cameras for its six-part fly-on-the-wall documentary This Is High School.

Diverse TV Director participants get to work

Amy Jo Johnson, Tanya Lemke and Tarique Qayumi will shadow directors on series such as Vikings and Reign.

Shomi to cease operations in November

The Shaw/Rogers-owned streamer is closing due to the changing online video marketplace and business climate, according to the company.

19-2 snags International Emmy nomination

CBC docuseries Interrupt This Program is also up for an award from the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

Retrospective: DHX Media

From Playback magazine: In 10 years, the kids content powerhouse has grown from being Canada’s East Coast entertainment outpost to a global producer, distributor and broadcaster.

The indie animated features battleground

From Playback magazine: Three Canadian indies that have, or are about to, take the leap into animated family features discuss their strategies. (The Nut Job 2 pictured.)

Corus greenlights two more Anne MOWs

Filming is underway on L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables: Good Stars and Fire & Dew, produced by Breakthrough Entertainment.