The former head of development at Cream has been handed the live-action lineup at the Winnipeg production house

The multi-faith cable channel has picked up the first season of Little Mosque on the Prairie, set to rerun next month shortly before the second season on CBC

Voting is underway for a people’s choice winner of the Great Canadian Video Game Competition, following an agreement between Telefilm and a Montreal festival

Regulatory VP says CRTC rule against same-market, same-language stations shouldn’t stop the Rogers Media play for Vancouver’s Channel M and Citytvs

Another week, another million as high-powered French release continues to dominate the domestic box office for Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm

The worldwide concert peaked at 672,000 on Saturday after Madonna’s show but, minute for minute, the 29-hour enviro-palooza on CTV lost to the recent Concert for Diana

The CRTC says it will rethink its decade-old BDU rules in early 2008, looking to do away with ad time limits and genre protection

Live-action kiddie series My Spy Family is the first foreign property to be handled by the Toronto distributor

In the battle for Canadian eyeballs, CTV has conquered primetime for five consecutive years. The network finished the 2006/07 season with eight of Canada’s top-10 programs, and 16 of the top-20 shows.

With the CBC completing the paperwork cementing its takeover of The Documentary Channel, a debate rages. CBC says the move is a win-win-win for the pubcaster, doc audiences, and independent producers, but a doc producers’ group says its members are frustrated by the CRTC’s attitude toward them, fearful for the future of POV docs, and alarmed that licence fees will fall.

Last time we checked, New Zealanders were still watching TV, even though they do not have a single word of law that prevents overseas companies from owning Kiwi stations. Just ask CanWest Global. And yet the majority presence of Wall Street’s Goldman Sachs in the CanWest bid for Alliance Atlantis has reignited the question of how big a stake, if any, foreign companies should be allowed to own in Canuck casters. So we ask:

CTV has inked a major deal with Viacom’s Comedy Central for exclusive broadcast and multiplatform rights in Canada to the cable channel’s entire programming slate. The deal, announced June 26, allows CTV to deliver everything from full episodes to clips and ringtones via broadband, mobile, VOD, or any other platform.