Gorgeous weather over the June 16 weekend is being blamed for a slump in ticket sales at the Quebec box office, for one film at least.

Wolfe Releasing of San Jose, CA is preparing to distribute a director’s cut of 3 Needles to homes and theaters in the U.S.

Top 20 TV Programs tracks ratings for the top 20 television shows in Canada for the period June 12-18, 2006.

The results of the Stanley Cup finals were bad news for most Canadians, except for those who work at CBC and rely on its ratings to fuel their paycheques.

There have been a lot of changes at CBC since 2004 – programming rethinks, high-level departures, labor strife – and yet, through it all, work on the medical drama Jozi-H has quietly continued, going to camera last month in South Africa and finally landing on the net’s schedule for 2006/07.

God Only Knows: Same Sex Marriage took the Playback Best Canadian Award at the June 12 Banff World Television Awards as the jury favorite among 18 projects nominated in the fest’s international categories.

After threatening to stop making big-budget dramas, Quebec’s largest private television network, TVA, has ordered a third season of the lavish historic series Nos étés.

CTV has launched a new video-on-demand service on CTV.ca, using the same technology as its sister channel’s recently introduced MTV Overdrive.

Corus Entertainment is getting more than just 10 new episodes of Studio B Productions’ hit toon Being Ian – it’s also picked up rights to the brand’s online assets.

Marina Cordoni has not been hired by Breakthrough Entertainment as reported in the June 12 item ‘Cordoni joins Breakthrough.’ She is the company’s distribution agent, but remains head of Maz Communications.

Will CTV have the biggest new hit this fall? Playback readers seem to think so. In a Playback online poll asking ‘What was the best pickup at the L.A. screenings?’ 51% of respondents chose CTV’s Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. This was followed by CHUM’s Jericho (26%), CTV’s 30 Rock (11%), Global’s Shark (9%) and CH’s ‘Til Death (3%).

The Quebec Film and Television Council has appointed the first members of its administration, effectively launching the council as a functioning organization.