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

CHUM Television is getting in on the peer-to-peer TV community promised by Joost.com with a revenue-sharing deal announced earlier this month that will make a long list of shows and clips from MuchMusic, Space and FashionTelevision available to users when the site launches later this year.

Vancouver animator Verne Andru has worked for Hanna-Barbera and Nelvana, and now wants to bring his own character Halbert ‘Hal’ Lighter to the silver screen. So how does a one-man animation studio find the money? Andru’s strategy is to build Hal’s fan base by publishing his adventures on the web and in comic books, and then, with luck, use the buzz to woo investors.

Vancouver: Love, connections and the lighter side of Alcoholics Anonymous meetings are at the heart of My Name Is Sarah, a B.C.-shot romantic comedy from Vancouver director Paul A. Kaufman (Honeymoon With Mom) and exec producer Norman Stephens (Bang, Bang, You’re Dead).

VANCOUVER: The makers of Legend of Earthsea and Snow Queen are returning to British Columbia for another imaginative long-form project – and go to camera later this month with the $19-million miniseries Tin Man.

Calgary: The slayings of four RCMP officers in small-town Alberta will be revisited this month as Calgary’s Seven24 Films and Toronto’s Slanted Wheel Entertainment roll cameras on To Serve and Protect: Tragedy at Mayerthorpe, an MOW for CTV.

Toronto: HGTV has signed an exclusive two-year production and development deal for a new series leveraging the popularity of Scottish interior designers Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan – known to audiences as the hosts of the U.K.-produced How NOT to Decorate.

MONTREAL: The producer of Bigfoot’s Reflection says he was sure of the creature’s existence after wrapping the documentary in the wilds of British Columbia and Washington State earlier this year.

MONTREAL: Muse Entertainment is prepping to shoot a feature comedy starring Meg Ryan and William H. Macy later this month in South Africa, while shooting continues on its MOW Too Young to Marry in Ottawa.

Dimension Films has closed a deal to remake David Cronenberg’s seminal hit Scanners – and has reportedly tapped Darren Lynn Bousman (Saw 2 and 3) to start work sometime in 2008, working from a script by David Goyer (Batman Begins, Blade).

Montreal production house and the landmark festival form new company, announcing plans to make scripted TV and movie comedies

Discovery Channel Canada is readying a major campaign to support the eco-minded second season of Canada’s Worst Handyman