Fall schedules pit Quebec version of Deal or No Deal and the reality dater Occupation Double against pubcaster’s Tout le monde en parle. TVA will take top spot, predicts buyer

Looking for a 1925 Hupmobile Roadster? After five decades of providing vintage cars to movie and TV shoots, Ron Fawcett is cashing out, and will auction is family’s 400 autos this weekend.

Mongrel Media has teamed with two Toronto prodcos to hold monthly meetings for a select group of movie writers to talk, read and get feedback from producers

Veteran sportscaster will step down as president of the Toronto Argos to lead coverage of the 2010 and 2012 Games

Lynn Hendee, president of Los Angeles-based Chartoff Productions (Rocky, Raging Bull), says she’s piecing together two movie projects already attached to Hollywood studios — Wolfgang Petersen’s Ender’s Game and Julia Taylor-Stanley’s Nothing But the Blues.

‘Do you want to hear a genuine Hollywood fantasy story?’ asks Chris Teeter, coordinator of the Canadian Music Café. ‘Last year, Molly Johnson got up on stage and sang three songs. At the end of the third one, an American music supervisor… went out to Queen Street West where he could get a cell phone signal, made a call and placed her in the closing credits of a film.’

Network confirms that, after a year on sabbatical in France, its SVP of dramatic programming has left to ‘pursue another challenge’

Motion Picture Distribution reshaped as Alliance Films with the AAC vet in the big chair, and up against former colleagues Robert Lantos and Patrice Théroux

Canada’s box office hit $362 million this summer, up 12% from last year thanks to a very strong May and late-season surprises including The Simpsons Movie and Superbad

New creative director to be named from within CBC ranks, to work under Kirstine Layfield

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee and Broken Trail win craft awards, while Toronto’s Xenophile Media wins for Fallen Alternate Reality Game

Kids series headed to the Netherlands, Malaysia and Singapore