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Bell Media to end Bitten after season three
Despite channel-high ratings for the series’ first two seasons, the Hoodwink/No Equal/eOne series will end this spring.
Best of the Year: Murdoch Mysteries
Almost retired at 65 (episodes), but now in the prime of life, Shaftesbury’s globe-trotting Canadian success story is Playback‘s TV Show of the Year.
Best of the Year: Rhombus Media
Building new partnerships and focusing on first-time filmmakers helped to make 2015 a banner year for the 36-year-old prodco.
Best of the Year: W Network
Playback‘s Channel of the Year is honing its audience strategy by focusing on its talent brands and original programming. (W’s Masters of Flip pictured.)
Best of the Year: Elevation Pictures
The upstart Canadian distributor burst onto the scene in 2013 and has amassed an impressive list of premium film and television titles in the two years since.
Best of the Year: Temple Street Productions
In 2015, the prodco attracted a majority stake from Fairfax Financial, launched two new divisions, hit the big screen and watched the star of its hit show land a Primetime Emmy nom.
Playback names its Best of the Year
Our Winter 2015-2016 issue features our eight Best of the Year profiles in addition to trends features and programming profiles.
Carmilla, Open Heart take home Digi Awards
The awards, presented Tuesday evening, are meant to recognize the best in digital media content. (Open Heart pictured.)
The Film Farm boards Lights Out
Jennifer Weiss and Simone Urdl of the Toronto-based prodco will coproduce the upcoming Brian De Palma (pictured) feature.
Five takeaways from Playback Marketing Summit
A roundup of some of the key takeaways from Playback‘s inaugural marketing summit, held Thursday at The Bram & Bluma Appel Salon in Toronto.
Conventional TV ad revenue dips in 2014: CRTC
Time spent watching conventional TV and listening to radio stations also dropped slightly, while viewing of online video went up, according to the report.
Canadian titles land on Oscars short doc list
My Enemy, My Brother and the Canadian copro Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah (pictured) have made the shortlist for Documentary Short Subject.
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