The whole was far from the sum of its parts at this year’s Gemini Awards Gala, with canceled series raking in the wins and DaVinci’s Inquest taking home the award for best dramatic series, but losing out on its nine other…

* After 14 years with MuchMusic, vp and gm Denise Donlon is leaving to become president of Sony Music Canada, effective Nov. 17….

In a move toward establishing a much-needed Canadian star system and some good old-fashioned hype for indigenous television programs, Global Communications has donated $6 million to the Canadian Television Fund to deliver a five-year program dedicated to promoting and publicizing Canadian…

‘I was filled with complete terror,’ says director John N. Smith of the making of Random Passage, a $16-million tv series. ‘But that’s how one starts any project this size. It’s a leap in the dark. The bigger the project, the…

The Banff Television Foundation will for the first time manage the World Congress of Science Producers, to be held in Sydney, Australia Dec. 1-4 and hosted by the Australian Broadcasting Association….

An International Emmy Award is considered one of the world’s most prestigious awards for excellence in television programming, and not only has cbc’s Street Cents received a nomination in the children’s and young people category, it is the only 100% Canadian…

Telescene Film Group has accessed the us$13 million needed to complete its first 13 one-hour episodes of Live Through This for ytv and mtv. The embattled Montreal producer, which has been suffering from an ongoing cash-flow decline, has also closed the…

Vancouver: A British Columbia cabinet shuffle Nov. 6 has shifted responsibility for the government-run Bridge Studios in Burnaby from the ministry that also oversees funder British Columbia Film and marketer the B.C. Film Commission….

Vancouver: International Keystone Entertainment of Vancouver has secured a us$1.2-million loan from directors, senior officers and shareholders of the company to fund the u.s. print and advertising budget for MVP: Most Valuable Primate….

The 4th annual Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, running Nov. 23-26, boasts nine Canadian shorts and one feature, with two world premieres: So-Called Friends from Taiwanese directors Tai Tai-Ling and Lien Chin-hua, and Wide-Eyed from Toronto’s Jane Kim….

Denys Arcand’s star-struck feature, Stardom, racked up $150,000 in cumulative box office in Canada, between its Oct. 27 release and Nov. 5, the final day of its second weekend in theatres, according to figures from Alliance Atlantis Motion Picture Distribution in…

An international selection panel has chosen 22 film proposals for the second edition of Contact Europe, the coproduction, cofinancing and distribution platform taking place this year in Berlin, Nov. 24-26….