Welcome to the latest installment in the never-ending struggle to sell English-Canadian films to English Canadians.

Holy Extreme Makeover! What the hank is going on at Global Television?

Top 20 TV Programs tracks ratings for the top 20 television shows in Canada for the period Feb. 26-March 4, 2007.

Apple’s iTunes Canada seemed to be the frontrunner in the race for Hollywood’s digital content, but in what could be a sign of the times, Bell Mobility recently signed short-term contracts with Disney and Sony that will allow subscribers to download movies such as Spider-Man and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest to handsets for a limited viewing time. The Internet movie distribution pipeline is still wide open in Canada. So what, you say?

The cast and crew of Stargate: Continuum landed in an icy world in March – shooting the direct-to-DVD movie based on the sci-fi franchise at a U.S. Navy research station in the Arctic. The shoot, which also incorporated the USS Alexandria nuclear submarine, came together because of a Stargate fan at the remote Applied Physics Laboratory Ice Station.

Lakeshore Entertainment has relocated its Elegy to B.C., and will begin shooting later this month at Lions Gate Studios with Ben Kingsley and Penélope Cruz under director Isabel Coixet (My Life Without Me). The picture – adapted from the Philip Roth novel The Dying Animal – was set for Montreal but pulled out because of the labor squabble between IATSE and AQTIS. Andre Lamal (The Covenant, The Exorcism of Emily Rose) produces.

A second run of Eureka (13 x 60) is underway at Vancouver Film Studios until midsummer, with Colin Ferguson back as the sheriff of a small town populated by brilliant scientists. The series runs on the Sci Fi Channel in the U.S. and on Space.

NBC has sent director Michael Dinner (Kidnapped, Grey’s Anatomy) to Vancouver to shoot its Bionic Woman pilot, a redo of the 1970s series starring British import Michelle Ryan (EastEnders).

Kevin Smith (Jersey Girl) has wrapped the pilot for Reaper, a supernatural drama about a devilish bounty hunter, after a two-week shoot in Vancouver for CW. Bret Harrison (Grounded for Life) stars with Tyler Labine (Boston Legal).

Muse Entertainment and Just For Laughs have formed a joint effort to turn out TV and feature comedies, starting with O’Cannabis, a movie about life in Canada following the legalization of marijuana.

Director Ernie Barbarash is set to wrap They Wait later this month, ending four weeks at The Bridge Studios in Burnaby, BC for Brightlight Pictures (White Noise, Postal). The ghost story, produced by Stephen Hegyes, Shawn Williamson and Andrew Koster, stars former model Jamie King (Sin City) and Terry Chen (Snakes on a Plane) as the distraught parents of a child plagued by spirits during the ‘ghost month’ of the Chinese calendar.

Casting is underway for The List – the new lifestyle show from Cineflix that will help Canadians cross items off their life’s ‘to-do’ list – for Slice.