Montreal: At its recent agm in Toronto, Cogeco Cable confirmed it has filed an application with the crtc for a licence to offer a video-on-demand service on its cable systems in Ontario and Quebec….

Alliance Atlantis Communications, Back Alley Film Productions, cbc and ExtendMedia have announced a first in interactive, dramatic tv series….

Global Television Network rolled out its website in Toronto and Ottawa this week….

To commemorate its 25th anniversary, the Toronto International Film Festival will produce 10 short films in partnership with Telefilm Canada and award-winning producer Niv Fichman (The Red Violin), to premier at the September 2000 venue….

CanWest Global has submitted its application to the crtc for approval of its acquisition of WIC Western International Communications. If the wic deal is approved, CanWest will acquire all its conventional tv assets, as well as its interest in robtv, making…

Bill Sweetman is the vice-president of Internet strategy and marketing services of Toronto-based new media consulting firm mmsg and the producer of MultiMediator.com – Canada’s Multimedia Guide….

Shaw Cablesystemsis to expand its ppv service to provide 50 extra channels to its digital cable customers….

Montreal: Movie producer Roger Frappier has been awarded the 1999 Prix Albert Tessier, the annual Quebec government award for career achievement in cinema….

* David McLennan has been named president and coo of Bell ExpressVu. Having been with the company since before its launch in September 1997, McLennan was vp of finance and coo….

Montreal: Telescene Film Group through its production partnership subsidiary Action Adventure Network has announced it will produce a second season of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World, with 22 new one-hours, bringing the series total to 44 hours….

James Davis is executive producer/partner at Jolly Roger, Toronto….

National Film Board animator Co Hoedeman has received the prestigious Klingsor Prize at the Biennale of Animation of Bratislava. In October, the Biennale organized a retrospective of Hoedeman’s films, including Continental Drift (’68), Tchou-Tchou (’72), the Oscar-winning film The Sand Castle…