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Muse preps comedy with Macy, Ryan

Production on the Hollywood send-up The Deal is set to start later this month in South Africa, with William H. Macy as a suicidal producer alongside Meg Ryan as a studio exec

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Sci-Fi buys more Battlestar

The U.S. cable outfit is bringing the Vancouver-shot series back for a fourth season, set to shoot this summer

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Shaw gives $10,000 to NSI

No, the other Shaw. Kirk. The contribution from the head of Insight Film Studios will go to start a fund for his fellow NSI alums

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CTF is not broken, so don’t fix it, say MPs

A report from the heritage committee, drafted after days of hearings into the workings of the Canadian Television Fund, recommends keeping the battered fund intact

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Lantos buys into Blueprint

Together with former Tri-Star president Jeff Sagansky, the top man at Serendipity Point has put a multi-million-dollar bundle into the border-straddling production house

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More Bride from Buck

Alliance Atlantis has not only renewed its vows with Rich Bride Poor Bride, it bumped the wedding reality by Buck Productions to a full hour

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Scottish design duo signs exclusive deal for Canadian series

Interior design gurus Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan have done wonders for HGTV with their U.K.-produced How NOT to Decorate. This year and next, the Scottish design team will work in Canada to shoot of 52 episodes of the similarly themed Home Heist

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Dimension to remake Scanners

A redo of Cronenberg’s head-popping horror from 1981 has been handed to Saw director Darren Lynn Bousman and Batman Begins scribe David Goyer

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Studio B builds team

The Vancouver cartoon house has named new bosses to its marketing and production wings

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MoboVivo goes Wild

Fishing shows on an iPod? Why not, says mobile content distributor following a deal with Wild TV

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Mummy moves back to Montreal

Following a Friday night peace accord between Quebec’s battling unions, Universal has changed its mind and now plans to shoot the US$100-million adventure horror The Mummy 3 in Montreal

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The Oscars rule again… with slightly less

The Academy Awards on CTV drew a slightly smaller audience than last year’s, and the total reach among Canadians fell by almost a million. But the red carpet still rules as the most-watched television event in Canada