The second season of ReGenesis has topped the nominations for this year’s DGC Awards, taking six nods in total, including best television drama, best direction for Clement Virgo, and a number of technical categories, including production design and sound editing.

The return and recent IPO of JumpTV is going unchallenged by the pillars of the TV industry now that the Internet rebroadcaster has stepped back from the edge of the Copyright Act.

Michael Hirsh is saying very little – yea or nay – following reports that his Cookie Jar Group is preparing to go public.

Atom Egoyan will be at the University of Toronto this fall – teaching a course about the crossover between film, music and other creative disciplines.

The Hot Sheet tracks Canadian box-office results for the period Aug. 4-10, 2006 and DVD sales in Canada for the period July 24-30, 2006.

Montreal concert film prodco FogoLabs picked up two awards at the 2006 Annual DVD Awards, hosted by film critic Leonard Maltin on Aug. 8 in Los Angeles.

Top 20 TV Programs tracks ratings for the top 20 television shows in Canada for the period Aug. 7-13, 2006.

CTV’s Canadian Idol once again helped boost the ratings of Whistler on Aug. 14. The nighttime soap garnered 512,000 viewers in the Monday 9 p.m. slot, replacing the recently cancelled ABC reality show One Ocean View.

Following the dismal debut of its ABC simulcast of The One, CBC has announced that a Canadian version of the reality singing contest, originally slated to launch late this year, will not make it to air at least until early 2007, if at all.

CanWest MediaWorks and Rogers Wireless have found a way to play ‘near TV quality’ video on BlackBerrys, and on Aug. 8 launched a service they call bbTV with a selection of sports, news and other clips.

Shares in Imax Corp. took a major hit following news on Aug. 9 that a five-month auction process failed to unearth a buyer willing to meet the company’s price.

Toronto filmmaker Roberto Ariganello, the long-serving exec director of the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto, drowned in a swimming accident in a remote pond near Halifax on Aug. 13.