Teen suicide is tackled head-on in Tout est parfait, a feature by first-timer Yves-Christian Fournier and Go Films producer Nicole Robert (Québec-Montréal, Cheech) currently shooting in Montreal.

YTV has renewed the live-action reality series Prank Patrol – from Montreal’s Apartment 11 Productions – for a third season, just as the kids show has been sold to Norway’s TV2 by distributor MarVista Entertainment. The series begins productio

CBC has picked up a new series from Cookie Jar Entertainment, and plans to premiere Busytown Mysteries (Hurray for Huckle) perhaps later this year as part of its preschool programming block, Kids’ CBC.

In Un capitalisme sentimental, filmmaker Olivier Asselin offers an alternative explanation for Black Tuesday, the fateful day when world financial markets collapsed in 1929.

Chaos ensues after global warming transforms a working-class Montreal neighborhood into a world Mecca for truffles in the surreal storyline of Kim Nguyen’s Truffe, now shooting in Montreal with star Roy Dupuis.

Calgary’s Joe Media is partway through the high-def redo of a holiday classic, and hopes to have the $5.8-million Secret of the Nutcracker ready for air this December on CBC. The shoot, under director Eric Till (72 Hours: True Crime, Duct Tape Forever), comes from the script by John Murrell, based on the 19th century short story, which – still with us? – was later adapted by the composer Tchaikovsky into the better-known ballet.

First-time writer/director Matthew Bennett, currently between seasons of Battlestar Galactica on which he plays a Cylon, has wrapped the feature Love Money in B.C. The privately funded ‘dark love story’ shot in the Vancouver suburbs last month, putting David Richmond-Peck (Robson Arms) in the lead as a man smitten by his brother’s wife. Hayden Baptiste (10.5) and Rod Davidson produce through Wandering Worx Entertainment.

Charity Shea (Scarred) stars in the college-set series The Best Years, now wrapped after a winter shoot in Toronto for Global and The N under Blueprint Entertainment and creator Aaron Martin (Degrassi: The Next Generation)

Docs must indeed be hot, judging by the continuing growth of the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.

The global documentary industry is more than keeping pace with Hot Docs’ growing audiences.

Michael Moore, Judaism and Toronto-haters inspired filmmakers to create some of the Canadian highlights at this year’s Hot Docs. Now, these docmakers can only wait and see how the public and industry respond at North America’s most important documentary festival.

Playback asks six decision-makers in doc broadcast, distribution and production what kinds of projects they are looking for. Half mentioned films with environmental themes.