Nelvana has signed on Hasbro as corporate underwriter for its new PBS Kids Bookworm Bunch, the u.s. pubcaster’s first-ever Saturday morning children’s programming block….

three National Film Board shorts won four awards at festivals in Zagreb and St. Petersburg last month….

Montreal: Cinar Corp. says it expects to receive an additional us$3.6 million from Globe-X Management. The payment means us$62 million, from an initial us$122 million in ‘unauthorized’ investments with Globe-X, is still outstanding….

Montreal: At the request of the crtc, Television Quatre Saisons has revised its request to completely drop its annual $8.6-million independent production quota….

Where the hell am I: Hey ditch smacks, been here for over a month now, and I can tell you – it stinks. The commercial writers smell of boiled cabbage, and half the time I feel like I’m going to toss…

Post-production and its powers are personified in this column. We’ll cover new techniques, technologies and the creative personnel and companies giving them vibrant visual life….

Toronto’s Trailer Park, one of the new kids on the Canadian commercial production block, has expanded its roster with the addition of four new directors….

The most recent batch of episodes of cbc’s These Arms of Mine, which goes into production this month, is produced by Arms Length Productions (Phil Savath, Susan Duligal) and not Forefront Entertainment as noted in B.C. Scene last issue. Vancouver-based Forefront…

[it]Really Weird Tales[ro] is in post-production and features, of course, [it][sc]sctv[esc][ro] talents [bo]John Candy[ro], [bo]Martin Short[ro], [bo]Catherine O’Hara[ro] and [bo]Joe Flaherty[ro], who brought the concept to [bo]Atlantis Films[ro], now producing its three half-hours with [bo]Viacom[ro] and [bo][sc]hbo[esc] [ro] (first telecast Oct….

*Mainframe doubles revenues in ’99…

* Robert Beattie, senior vp of Equicap Financial Corp., has stepped down after four years heading up the film financing agency, a subsidiary of Alliance Atlantis Communications….

Rogers Communications’ in-house production department is rebranding itself as Rogers Productions, a new division specializing in commercial production, corporate videos, music videos, post-production and long format, including mows and series projects….