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Grammer sitcom won’t be Back

Fox ends Back to You, Canterbury’s Law and New Amsterdam, orders Fringe

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Pieces pays off for Maximum

Holocaust drama holds its own in the shadow of mega May releases including Iron Man and Made of Honor

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Canada can do more on piracy, says U.S.

Report on anti-piracy measures nods to progress north of the border, but puts Canada on watch list with China and Russia

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Drabinsky faces key kickback witness

Former insider Peter Kofman expected to testify that he helped inflate assets before Livent went public. Also bought blocks of tickets to boost L.A. run of Ragtime, says Crown

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jPod fans ready Lego campaign

Can mailing little colored bricks to CBC bring back the series? Probably not, say fans. But they want to make a point about the importance of online viewing

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Seville snags Pool’s latest

Montreal shop taking Mommy is at the Hairdresser’s and its international rights to Cannes

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ABC cuts down Trees

Schedule-hopping Anne Heche series ends after two seasons at North Shore Studios

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Universal signs with YTV’s Next Star

Corus Entertainment takes on music industry partner for new summer series, courting online and text voting

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Numbers up at Cineplex

Revenue and attendance rose in first quarter of 2008

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Crown lays out case against Drabinsky

Fraud trial opens with allegations that impresario and his partner Myron Gottlieb orchestrated fake invoices, inflated ticket sales and kept two sets of books at Livent

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Filmport enters global studio war

Marsha Ann Tate is a freelance researcher and writer focusing on Canada’s film and television industries. She is the author of several books, including Canadian Television Programming Made for the United States Market: A History with Production and Broadcast Data and Wisdom: How to Evaluate and Create Information Quality on the Web, to be published in fall 2008.

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Plenty of competition: New studios around the world

The following is a list of proposed or ongoing studio construction or renovation projects worldwide