Theatrical and DVD releases starring Matthew Perry, Sharon Stone and others due from Toronto shop starting next year

CBC has had its fall-launch liftoff, offering up a balanced mix of shows of generally strong quality. That much is not surprising. What is especially heartening to Ceeb folks is that a number of these shows are drawing solid ratings, with a couple of excellent tallies.

Let’s face it. With all of this consolidation going on, we’ve known for some time that a whack of restructuring was in the works, and hey – news alert! – the whacking is well underway.

Just as YouTube amateurs are cutting their own movies digitally, Canada’s professional editors are circling the wagons to protect their turf.

Charles Martin Smith hopes audiences will take to the underdog story in his latest feature, Stone of Destiny, which the Hollywood-actor-turned Canadian director is currently posting at Vancouver’s Infinity Features.

As the dust settles on the CTVglobemedia takeover of CHUM, Susanne Boyce and Ed Robinson have emerged at the top of the heap at CTV after a wide-ranging corporate reorganization.

The federal government raised some eyebrows when it opted to outsource the executive search to replace CBC chief Robert Rabinovitch, who leaves his post Nov. 20.

VANCOUVER — Intelligence, on TV? Yes, and it’s back for a second season as Chris Haddock’s smart and savvy Vancouver-based crime drama returned Monday, Oct. 1 at 9 p.m. on CBC.

• Brian Anthony has been appointed CEO and executive director of the Directors Guild of Canada after a stint as head of the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards Foundation. The announcement was made at the DGC awards on Sept. 29.

• Nelvana has struck a deal with HP Video Merchant Services to put much of its vast animated catalogue on the Net. Shows such as Braceface and Tales from the Cryptkeeper, among others, will soon be available in online stores as DVDs on demand in the States.

The producer of the MOW Swamp Devil is Ric Nish, not Nick Rush as printed in the Oct. 1 story ‘Devil comes to Montreal.’