Season one of the series Zixx is a coproduction between Savi Media and Paul Cadieux, while season two is produced by Thunderbird Films in association with YTV Canada. Mainframe Entertainment provides the CGI animation services and distributes both seasons along with Thunderbird. Incorrect information appeared in a story in the Feb. 6 issue.

At the recent CFTPA Prime Time conference in Ottawa, CBC TV boss Richard Stursberg told a roomful of producers what the pubcaster’s new regime wants in its programs.

Natalie Lisinska stars in the 6 x 60 murder mystery At the Hotel, the latest from director Ken Finkleman and producing partner Jan Peter Meyboom, airing March 7 on CBC. Lisinska plays a maid, part of an ensemble cast that includes Martha Henry (Clean), Hrant Alianak (Monk) and Benz Antoine (Four Brothers)

Montreal ­- Saturday Night Live alumnus Will Ferrell will be shooting his next feature, Blades of Glory, in Montreal. The shoot, which will take place March 10-25, is produced by Ben Stiller’s company, Red Hour Films.

Halifax – Bicoastal U.S. production house Crossroads Films is currently shooting its new feature Snow Angels in Halifax under the direction of David Gordon Green (Undertow). Adapted for the big screen by Green from the novel by Stewart O’Nan, Angels is a family drama about a small-town waitress and her difficulties with an estranged husband. Kate Beckinsale (Underworld), Sam Rockwell (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy), Michael Angarano (Sky High) and Amy Sedaris (Bewitched) star, with Dan Lindau, Paul Miller (A Love Song for Bobby Long) and Lisa Muskat (Crude) producing. Derrick Tseng (Palindromes) is coproducer. The film is scheduled to wrap in mid-March. No distributors are attached as yet.

Saskatoon – The clay animation characters of Wapos Bay are getting the series treatment at APTN and SCN, albeit gradually. APTN has ordered 13 half-hours from Saskatoon’s Wapos Bay Productions and the National Film Board, while SCN has picked up five and is in talks for the rest.

* Taryn Manning and Wes Bentley have joined the cast of Allan Moyle’s Weirdsville, set to get underway next month in and around Hamilton, ON for Darius Films.

Halifax: Producer Camelia Frieberg (Wilby Wonderful, The Sweet Hereafter) is directing her first feature, the drama A Stone’s Throw, through Palpable Productions, her Halifax-based prodco, and Acuity Pictures, also of Halifax, under the banner of Smooth Stone Productions.

Vancouver: Insight Film Studios is in production on its first feature film, When a Man Falls in a Forest, starring Sharon Stone, who is also aboard as executive producer.

Vancouver – Mainframe Entertainment is gearing up for its first theatrical animated feature, Escape from Planet Earth. The Vancouver toonco, which has animated several direct-to-video features (Inspector Gadget’s Biggest Caper Ever, Casper’s Haunted Christmas), is one of the producers and will animate the film.

Toronto – Some five years and two title changes later, Ron Mann has wrapped his long-awaited ode to the custom-car craze of the 1960s.

Vancouver – Animation house Studio B Productions is partnering with Oscarwinning animators Alison Snowden and David Fine (Bob’s Birthday) to produce Ricky Sprocket – Showbiz Boy, a 26 x 22 comedy series for Teletoon aimed at the six-to-12 set.