Teen drama Madison has been renewed for a fourth season, putting to rest fears that the critically acclaimed, award-winning program would be canceled….

Heartland Motion Pictures’ Stephen Onda and Pebble Beach Productions’ Leif Storm have formed multimedia company Pebble Beach Interactive, and in the process have developed a pair of cd-rom titles as well as a philosophy and method for meeting the technological and…

Northwest bound…

Sheldon Wilson is creative director/producer at Torch Television and New Media, Toronto….

As gems dug up from last year’s panels prove, some things don’t change much…

Summer. Finally. Bugs, barbecues, and the Banff Television Festival, the annual trek west to play, pitch, and work in some serious relationship building high in the Alberta Rockies with colleagues, national and international….

It all started with John Lowell Jr. way back in ’36. 1836 that is. The Lowell Institute, and a 1946 venture by six Boston colleges to broadcast its lecture series, was born from a 110-year-old legacy left by Lowell to create…

‘When we established this festival in 1979,’ says Banff Television Festival president Jerry Ezekiel, ‘we set out to recognize the best television in the world, and that very much includes the best television on commercial networks.’…

In today’s marketplace, making a splash on the international scene is no easy feat. Five Canadian projects – Little Criminals, Lives of Girls and Women, Hiroshima, Spoken Art: Letter to Harvey Milk and Due South – have done just that and…

Among the many Canadian Rockie nominees, two very different homegrown series were appointed in the children’s category: Straight Up, a daring, in-your-face look at teenage life, and Liszt’s Rhapsody, a family-oriented, sound-track-heavy look at the life of Hungarian composer Franz Liszt….

Three of Canada’s Rockie nominees are notable for the hard, journalistic look they take at some tough topics. Le Tchechenie, about war-torn Chechnya, The Sterilization of Leilani Muir and Crash Course, about the investigation of plane crashes, all use the television…

Montreal choreographer Jean-Pierre Perreault, creator of the post-modern dance sensation Joe, only watches television in hotels. ‘I look at television and I think, God! What poverty! How much Oprah Winfrey can they watch?’…