CTV’s ’99/2000 season promises the return of four Canadian drama series along with two to debut this fall. Coming back are Cold Squad, Nikita, Power Play and The City, along with newcomers Twice in a Lifetime and Little Men….

Global Television president and ceo Jim Sward promises at least 30 new hours of Canadian drama on the network in the coming season. The theme for the new ’99/2000 Global lineup is consistency, with the network knocking Maple Leaf Hockey out…

Under the terms of a merger agreement which brings four specialty channels – Showcase, History Television, Life Network and HGTV Canada – under the new corporate entity Alliance Atlantis Broadcasting, $8 million will be allocated between Showcase and History over a…

More consolidation makes sense…

The funding cycle at the Canadian Television Fund has wrapped with the announcement of $15.8 million in Licence Fee Program support for documentary projects, bringing the final tally of eip and lfp commitments to $192 million for this fiscal….

Devine Entertainment of Toronto is reporting first-quarter revenues (ended March 31) of $535,058 compared to $801,224 for the same period last year. Net income for the quarter is $56,150 or an eps of $0.005….

Montreal: Blackwatch Releasing has signed an output agreement for all Canadian rights with Sony Pictures Classics and hired Andy Myers as senior vp and gm of distribution for its new office in Toronto….

Montreal: Telescene Film Group is showing a major increase in year-end net profits of 87% in fiscal ’98/99 to $7.1 million, up from $3.8 million last year….

* Fireworks, Slan sign first-look deal…

Montreal: Alliance Atlantis Communications and New Line Cinema have renewed their 10-year-old output agreement to the year 2002. The agreement with New Line, a Time Warner company, completes aac’s principal renewal requirements and follows the late March announcement that the company…

Alliance Atlantis Communications is expanding into the Internet and new media with the creation of Alliance Atlantis New Media….

* At newly created Alliance Atlantis Broadcasting, Phyllis Yaffe, former president of History Television and Showcase, becomes president….