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More Prank for YTV

Reality series Prank Patrol greenlit for third season by kidcaster and sold to Norway’s TV2

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CBC contest offers the Cup

The Ceeb’s latest Hockey Night in Canada promo is a user-generated content contest that promises to bring the Stanley Cup to the winner’s living room

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Guilds, ACTRA slam broadcasters on drama

Lack of cash for domestic drama is ‘completely unacceptable,’ says the DGC’s Pamela Brand, following the recent release of spending data from the CRTC

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Congorama moves into English Canada

Christal cautiously releases the critical darling in Toronto and Vancouver, and gives a wider launch to A vos marques… party!

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CTV playing Minds game

An online game based on Criminal Minds will soon lure fans around the net’s website and, with luck, to the crime drama’s new slot on Sunday nights

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Return of ReGenesis

Third season of the Shaftesbury science drama arrives with Wendy Crewson in the cast and a new deal in place for its second window rights

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TFO goes solo

The French counterpart to TVOntario will be spun off as an independent organization on Sunday, with Gisèle Chrétien at the helm

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Quebecor moves forward on diversity

The first winners of a Quebecor bursary for aboriginals and visible minorities have finished their training at Montreal’s INIS

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Labor deal struck in B.C.

New deal between producers and actors said to mirror the recent re-up between ACTRA and CFTPA, with a pay hike for local actors and provisions for new media

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Private TV profits plunge, says CRTC

New report by the federal watchdog shows profits way down at conventional stations because of higher spending on programming. Told you so, says CAB

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AAC deal delayed

The Toronto cable giant needs more time to get its papers in order, pushing its buyout by CanWest Global to July or August

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Global, PBS have Faith

Irshad Manji’s doc Faith Without Fear to be broadcast on Global, and as part of special post-September 11 series on PBS