Ottawa, March 1995. The big angular building at 140 Rue de Promenade de Portage, in the Outaouais Room, better known as the hearings chamber in which which crtc chairman Keith Spicer had spent a good piece of the last six years….

Sinbad is back, only this time he’s not an oversized comedian, he’s the real, swashbuckling, Cyclops-escaping, monster-vanquishing thing. Toronto’s Atlantis Productions in association with All American Entertainment is bringing the vintage adventure classic back to television in a production which explores…

Spooks, spin-offs and a more defined role for the cbc mark this season’s launch of the 1996/97 network tv schedules….

Banff, Alta: As usual at the Banff Television Festival, about the only ones working up a tangible stress level are the independent producers. Busy pitching, schmoozing and generally making merry with the broadcasters and funding agencies that can kick projects from…

Montreal: Tele-Metropole’s foreign export division, TVA International, has been mandated to ‘develop new revenue sources for a/v products in the international marketplace,’ says head Francois St-Laurent….

INT. Night. G. lies splayed across the threadbare carpet of the self-consciously low-rent apartment he always thought would be a perfect tabloid tv testament to his mean-street days after he made it big. As the contents of his tragically uninspired and…

Montreal: Cutbacks in public broadcasting and concentration in the private sector were top-of-mind issues at this year’s apftq convention, held in Quebec City May 31 to June 2….

The busy post scene in Quebec (see story p. VI-10) may get shaken up with the Videotron takeover of CFCF Inc….

Montreal: Productions sda and Ellipse Fiction, a division of Ellipse Programme, France’s largest private producer and a subsidiary of Canal+, have announced a two-year, $23 million coproduction agreement….

The Nova Scotia Film Development Corporation approved project funding of $1.4 million for the first quarter of fiscal 1996/97. This is its largest round of funding to date….

Cinar Films, Montreal, has filed with the u.s. Securities and Exchange Commission stating its intention to sell up to 2.2 million subordinate voting shares….

Alliance has opened a new division to handle its worldwide motion picture distribution activities. Alliance Pictures International will handle pictures in the $10-$25 million range and specialize in upscale commercial movies generated through in-house packaging and production by Alliance Pictures as…