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Creator hopes for more Motor City

Time-hopping whodunnit Across the River to Motor City makes it to air this week, despite the dissolution of CHUM, though its future remains a mystery

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Canada making gains in mobile, says Galipeau

Former Alliance Atlantis exec says carriers are closing the gap with Europe and Asia at conference, though services still need to be cheaper

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Claques a hit on DVD

Antics of the animated Plasticine characters place third on the Nielsen home video chart, nipping at the heels of Hollywood heavies Transformers and Meet the Robinsons

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Super Channel signs with IMG

Content giant to provide sports, factual entertainment, comedies and drama — many from Britain — to start-up pay-TV service

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Writers unite as strike spreads to B.C.

Show of solidarity with the WGA will see scribes from Canada, Australia, the U.K. and across the globe march on Nov. 28 — just as shoots for U.S. shows shut down in B.C.

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Scot seeks mainstream audiences

Laurie Lynd was sceptical, but Mongrel thinks his gay hockey comedy can hold its own amid holiday heavies like Fred Claus and Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium

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Levie leaving SODEC

Film and TV boss at provincial funder stepping down after six years for personal reasons, relocating to Paris

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Angus out of Heritage committee

Outspoken NDPer replaced by housing critic, as Parliament’s standing committee names members. Tory topper Gary Schellenberger re-elected as chair

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Gay festival returns to Montreal

Twentieth edition of Image+nation returns with cannibalism, Middle East politics and immigration

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Frost to speak at History Summit

British TV host, best known for his sit-downs with Nixon and Kissinger, and who currently works for al-Jazeera International, will headline conference in January

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Hurlbut exits top news job at Citytv

Departure after 30 years under CHUM comes amid post-buyout streamlining of news operations and warnings about the future of local reporting

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Interactive group downplays divorce from CFTPA

Film and TV producers have different priorities than those caught up in the new and turbulent world of interactive, says head of CIAIC