* CBC has promoted Lisa Clarkson to senior director of business, rights and content management for English television, up from a director’s post now held by Susan Kelly, former general counsel at ExtendMedia.

A new report says consumers are receptive to buying feature films through iTunes, but only if the price is right. Very right.

Even as Alliance Atlantis’ Bon Cop, Bad Cop closes in on Quebec box-office history, the distrib’s corporate woes are providing even more compelling drama.

The byline for the story ‘Bidder emerges for MPD’ in the Aug. 21 issue was accidentally omitted. The story was written by Dustin Dinoff.

They must be mostly from Quebec. In response to a recent online Playback poll asking ‘Do you plan to see Bon Cop, Bad Cop?’, 60% of respondents voted yes, and 40% voted no. The lion’s share of the film’s box office so far has come from la belle province.

Winnipeg: Production is underway in Winnipeg on writer/director Kari Skogland’s big-screen adaptation of Margaret Laurence’s classic novel The Stone Angel, which is scheduled to wrap Sept. 22.

Montreal: Fans of the late Mordecai Richler have reason to celebrate, as his popular novel St. Urbain’s Horseman is being made into a miniseries for the CBC.

Toronto: Insight Production is teaming with producer/distrib FremantleMedia (the Idol franchise) to put a Canadian spin on another hit U.S. reality show, Project Runway.

Vancouver: Director Anne Wheeler is at the helm of The Competition, a holiday comedy currently shooting in B.C. for Lifetime Television.

Screen Siren Pictures is heading into post on Luna: The Way Home, the latest in CTV’s Heroes, Champions and Villains MOW series. The film – based on the true story of Luna, a recently deceased killer whale that lived in the harbor of a B.C. village for five years – shot around Vancouver Island last month.

* Imaginary Playmate, a Lifetime Television MOW about a little girl whose ‘imaginary’ friend unleashes some supernatural evil on her and her family, was scheduled to wrap in Victoria, BC on Sept. 1. William Fruet (Wild Card) is at the helm of the thriller.