Summer schedules for the nets include scriptless series such as the next Canadian Idol and The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency, plus the return of Epitome’s long-absent Instant Star

Former Channel M exec to work on the personalized news project MyCBC while raising the network’s profile on the West Coast

Award nominations announced by Montreal ACTRA smile on local cast members of the Human Trafficking and the IFC comedy The Business

The makers of This is Daniel Cook and Burnt Toast have landed this year’s Innovative Producer award from the Banff World Television Festival

The federal agency says it will not consider a last-minute proposal by CGM to sell CHUM stations in the Prairies

Season ender stands up to strong competition from the NHL playoffs and Jack Bauer, though the series’ season average is down from last time

Darius Films has sold the distribution rights for its oddball comedy Run Robot Run to the sales wing of Sullivan Entertainment

Kai Soremekun, star of Love, Sex and Eating the Bones, will join effects editor Zach Lipovsky and filmmaker Abigail Steinberg on the CTV/Fox reality show

Spurred on by a bigger appetite for programming among U.S. cable broadcasters and domestic specialty channels – and a healthier international marketplace overall – Canadian production is continuing the rebound hinted at after 2005.

It’s been one year since the inaugural Playback Mobile Forum, and gearing up for the next edition offers a perfect opportunity to reflect on how far Canada has come in the mobile space in that time.

Don’t tell Noah Cowan and Piers Handling that the Toronto International Film Festival has gone Hollywood.

CGM bends slightly in CHUM bid