Box-office successes from French Canada dominate a strong short list of contenders for best motion picture at this year’s Genies. Four of the nominees cracked the domestic box office’s top 10 for 2006, although only Bon Cop, Bad Cop has sold well internationally.

Vancouver’s Insight Film Studios is hoping for a 24-sized hit with Painkiller Jane, a new sci-fi series that began shooting a 22-episode season in November.

First it was Shania, now Céline is getting a turn. Toronto’s Barna-Alper Productions is in preproduction on the MOW biopic Céline, based on the life of singer Céline Dion, to air on CBC.

The long-awaited review of CBC by the Heritage committee will open with a look at the meltdown at CTF

Quebec unveils permanent boost to the annual budget of its troubled arts funder amid cheers from filmmakers

The hockey sitcom gets back to work with a slightly bigger order and an all-star guest lineup including Phil Esposito and Darryl Sittler

The Big Game, as expected, stomped other Sunday night programming, though audiences were down from last year and the numbers fell short of CTV’s CSI

The Winnipeg film festival is set to unspool the northern noir That Beautiful Somewhere and a behind-the-scenes doc about the making of Beowulf & Grendel

After 10 years of heading its original productions, Madeleine Lévesque has exited Teletoon to take a top post at 9 Story Entertainment

Last summer, Teletoon started planning a multiplatform rebranding to go with its 10th anniversary. The bold new brand launched this week — four agencies, an online youth advisory panel and a cross-country focus group effort later