Sure, the mountains are beautiful and the festival – which is almost as inspirational as in the old days – attracts deal makers from across the globe. But those plane tickets, delegate badges and double scotches at the Rundle Lounge don’t come cheap, which, as always, made attending this month’s Banff World Television Festival a difficult decision for many. So, while there, we asked:

• Teletoon has ordered a fourth season (13 x 30) of Carl Squared from Portfolio Entertainment.

• Sandra Collins is joining the Canadian Television Fund, and starts on June 25 as its VP of corporate services and administration. Collins was previously at Alliance Atlantis Communications and the University of Western Ontario, and will be responsible for CTF finance, administration and human resources.

Veteran producer Peter Simpson – maker of some 40 movies and TV shows including The Eleventh Hour and the Prom Night franchise – died June 5 in a Toronto hospital from complications due to lung cancer. He was 64.

The family and friends of Tony Roman gathered in Montreal June 14 to pay tribute to the Quebec film producer, scriptwriter and singer, who died June 8 after a battle with cancer.

Showline Harbourside Studios is owned by its operators, and will not relocate as part of the City of Toronto’s waterfront revitalization plan, although that is expected to happen to Showline Trinity Studios. Incorrect information appeared in the April 30 issue.

So, Banff. Seemed to me the festival this year was hijacked by the new media types.

There’s no bigger cheerleader for Canadian production than Norman Jewison. He was reading through his morning newspaper recently, he told me, when an item caught his attention. It was an article about how Rhombus Media producer Niv Fichman crisscrossed the globe in order to secure the movie rights to Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago’s novel Blindness, which goes to camera in Ontario in late July with an eye to a spring 2008 release.

Broadcasters and producers take note: net neutrality – or, more specifically, the lack of it – could have a big impact on your emerging content distribution models.

Women beware: nearly two decades after wreaking havoc in Montreal’s nightclubs, the motley crew of male seducers of Cruising Bar are getting ready to hit the singles scene again.

Quebec’s best-loved hockey team is lacing up its skates once again, but this time Les Boys will be looking to continue their remarkable winning streak on the small screen, and are now shooting a 20 x 30 series for Radio-Canada in Montreal.

HBO Films and Picturehouse have put Patricia Rozema (I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing, Mansfield Park) in the director’s chair for the first feature adaptation of an American Girl book.