The Toronto International Film Festival unveils its complete lineup, which also includes conversations with Bill Maher and Larry Charles – as well as former U.S. president Jimmy Carter

The busy Vancouver prodco redoes Maple Ridge as ancient Greece for the cable movie Odysseus and the Isle of Mists, airing this winter on Sci Fi

Ad exec-turned filmmaker Bill Keenan has attracted Peter Keleghan and Leah Pinsent to his surviving-in-the-wild feature comedy Eating Buccaneers

New drama series The Weight, created by This Is Wonderland team George F. Walker and Dani Romain, brings emotional tales of Toronto suburb to The Movie Network and Movie Central

The number-one network balances returning favorites including Grey’s Anatomy, the CSIs and Dancing with the Stars with newcomers Private Practice and Big Shots, starting Sept. 24

The third-season premiere of The Hills is doing big things on all platforms for MTV Canada, which is now sending its own spin-off of the series to viewers stateside

The CW fish-out-of-the-subcontinent comedy series Aliens in America, with echoes of Little Mosque on the Prairie, shoots in Vancouver through October

Johnny Test and The Adventures of Paddington Bear are among the titles that will be available for purchase at US$1.99 per ep

Scrap it or save it?

I don’t very much care who pulls the strings, so long as the puppet show is homegrown.

MONTREAL: Serge Losique isn’t so sure he likes the word ‘comeback.’

The 31st annual World Film Festival will open Aug. 23 with a screening of the local comedy Bluff by first-time feature filmmakers Simon-Olivier Fecteau and Marc-André Lavoie, and starring Rémy Girard and Marc Messier.