What a difference two points makes, depending on your job. A recent report from the CRTC says the Canadian Television Fund should lower its standards for Canadian content and fund programs that score as low as an eight on the 10-point CAVCO scale. This will make shows more marketable, say the feds. Problem is, it risks putting at-home directors, writers and actors out of work. And so – though we suspect we may already know everyone’s answers – we ask:

Everyone will have to wait until August for details on how CanWest Global Communications and partner Goldman Sachs will value and divvy up ownership of the pending Alliance Atlantis Communications/Global Television partnership in 2011.

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• Citytv Toronto reporter David Onley has been named lieutenant governor of Ontario. One of Onley’s priorities will be to improve Ontario’s accessibility for the disabled.

• Decode Enterprises has purchased the worldwide television and home entertainment rights to Turner Broadcasting’s new live-action series My Spy Family. The series is produced by U.K.’s Kindle Entertainment and is the first non-Canadian title to be picked up by the Toronto company, a wing of Decode Entertainment.

The CRTC’s recommendation that the Canadian Television Fund lower its Cancon requirement for primetime projects, if instituted, would open up more options for producers, but the regulator shouldn’t expect the dramatic spike in audiences for Canadian shows that it seeks.

Watching Global Television and CTV battle it out behind the scenes for the hearts and minds of Canadian TV viewers this last little while has been top-notch viewing – much better than the sorry summer fare on the tube these days. (Curmudgeonly harrumph.)

For some producers, Internet and mobile offerings for made-for-TV properties are mere afterthoughts. But not for Insight Productions executive producer John Brunton, who says multiplatform strategies are at the core of his Toronto shop’s shows, which include CTV ratings topper Canadian Idol and Project Runway Canada, set to launch this fall on Slice.

VANCOUVER — Stage 3 Media launched its sci-fi series Sanctuary directly into the Guinness Book of World Records, which notes that it has the ‘highest budget for a direct-to-web broadcast.’

Douglas Coupland is playing games with producers Larry Sugar and J.B. Sugar. The author of Generation X, Souvenir of Canada and Everything’s Gone Green is exec producing the adaptation of his game-themed novel JPod with the father and son principals of No Equal Entertainment for CBC and, according to J.B. Sugar, a web component may also be in the works.

Vancouver talents Sol Guy and Josh Thome are hip-hopping around the world with celebrities such as Joaquin Phoenix, Cameron Diaz, Mos Def, Charlize Theron and Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers to make 4Real, a doc series for CTV and MTV about young people using art and culture to change their worlds.

Universal Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment are booked at Cinespace Film Studios in Toronto through September, shooting Flash of Genius with Greg Kinnear. The Little Miss Sunshine star will play Robert Kearns, the inventor who waged a lengthy legal battle against Detroit automakers, claiming they stole his idea for the intermittent windshield wiper. The story is reworked from a New Yorker article and marks the directing debut of producer Marc Abraham (Let’s Go to Prison, Children of Men). Lauren Graham (Evan Almighty) also stars.