Barbara Williams has exited the top spot at Toronto 1 to be SVP of programming and production at CanWest Mediaworks, and will oversee buys and productions for all of CanWest’s conventional and specialty channels under Kathleen Dore as of Feb. 17.

Restructuring at CHUM

Michelle Nadon is managing director of Toronto-based MediaIntelligence, which offers end-to-end recruitment and training services for the Canadian media and culture employment markets, providing a tangible connection between talent, employers and cultural industry stakeholders.

Not enough, say Playback readers. In a recent online Playback poll question asking ‘Are the increased tax credits in B.C., Quebec and Ontario enough to turn around the industry in those provinces?’ 69% of respondents voted No, and 31% voted Yes.

Now that this nasty business of uncompetitive tax credits is out of the way in B.C., Ontario and Quebec, it’s time for producers to get back to what is really important: lobbying for a new deal to help capitalize their struggling production companies.

Toronto: It’s not easy to get Jan Peter Meyboom to talk about his projects. Ask him a question about the goings-on at 100 Percent Film & Television and odds are good that the answer – which might turn out to be not much of an answer at all – will be prefaced by an uneasy cough and a remark about not wanting to ‘jinx it.’

Therriault stars in Douglas mini

Secret agent man

Spin Entertainment, the Toronto animation/FX/design shop with sister offices in Atlanta and Vancouver, played revolving doors at the close of 2004. The shop saw five staff come on board and four exit in what Spin CEO and executive producer Norm Stangl calls ‘a restructuring.’

Toronto’s Yowza Animation helped bring a beloved cartoon character to life in the feature Fat Albert, a Christmas release from Twentieth Century Fox that has earned more than US$47 million at the box office.

Toronto: Four years after their offbeat short Toothpaste struck a chord with performing arts fans, Matt Hornburg and Larry Weinstein are about to finish the sequel, an hour-long special called Burnt Toast, set to air next season on Bravo! and CBC’s Opening Night.

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