Nontreal: Cast and crew logged in a couple of extra-long days on the recently completed two-hour tv movie/pilot of Largo Winch, a highly stylized episode that the show’s broadcasters can schedule as a special or during the sweeps period….

Montreal: The Montreal Film and TV Commission is set to launch an expanded website. The site will include an extensive online photo bank, appropriate industry links, information on current shoots and, within a few months, a new service making it possible…

Montreal World Film Festival Aug. 25-Sept. 4 Montreal (514) 848-3883 www.ffm-montreal.org…

BCE’s proposed $2.32-billion acquisition of ctv has spawned the largest benefits package in Canadian broadcast history. A summary of the package’s on-screen component includes $140 million earmarked for original priority programming – or at least 175 independently produced hours not contingent…

hubbards, N.S.: ‘Little blackfly, pickin’ my bones, in North Ontar-eye-oh eye-oh, in North Ontar-eye-oh…’…

‘Get Big Fast!’ says the Canadian Association of Broadcasters, the Canadian Cable Television Association and everyone else under the Northern sun, in response to a skyrocketing global economy….

The latest installment in Molson’s ‘I AM Canadian’ campaign hit the airwaves this month. However, before it reached tv sets, Molson previewed the new commercial, ‘No Doot Aboot It,’ on its IAM.ca website….

The focus of this regular section is on agencies in Canada. Looking for agency business strategies and creative teams’ secret weapons? We tell all in Ad Missions….

Ladies, meet Cam. He’s a normal suburbanite kind of kid, but one with a message. He cares about your breasts. He wants to make sure you are all self-testing at least once a month, and if you don’t know how, he’ll…

Montreal: Telescene Film Group appears to have solved its immediate production financing problem….

To understand the new spots produced by The Ace Film Company for Ikea Seattle, trip back to the 1980s, if you will. At the time, McCann-Erickson was the agency of record for Ikea nationally and Bjorn Bailey was the head of…

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