With a $20-million price tag on its mega-Mars project, Discovery Channel and Galafilm Productions know the stakes are out of this world.

Trekking to Mars and back had its challenges, says George Mihalka, the seasoned Montreal-based director who helmed the four-part miniseries Race to Mars.

Genie and Jutra award-winning writer/director Philippe Falardeau is probing the complexity of childhood love – and loss – in C’est pas moi, je le jure! (It’s Not Me, I Swear!), his latest feature.

The much-anticipated sequel to the Disney TV movie phenom was watched by more than one million Canadians, bringing Family Channel a record audience

Patrick Huard’s feature directorial debut ‘turns to gold’ for Christal Films, ringing in $1.6 million after less than two weeks on Quebec screens

Hot after its successful run on Quebec screens, domestic teen flick A vos marques…Party! is now a hit in home video

Ratings for Global’s freshman college drama trailed off at season’s end; no word yet on a sophomore run

Six-part mystery series will face Shark and Big Shots on most Citytv stations when its goes to air in late November

One year after his death, ‘Croc Hunter’ Steve Irwin will be celebrated on Discovery Channel and Animal Planet with a week’s worth of specials and episodes

With TIFF fast approaching, the upstart distributor makes a splash in the film and TV world with the pickup of Seville’s ready-made infrastructure

Following the close of its takeover by CanWest and Goldman Sachs, AAC’s execs David Lazzarato, Andrea Wood and Ted Riley are gone; Michael MacMillan and Phyllis Yaffe remain as ‘consultants’

Action star Matt Damon will guest star on an episode of Cookie Jar’s kiddie staple Arthur, set to air next month on PBS, as a favor to writer and college buddy Peter Hirsch