*Chercover deserves credit…

*Alliance Atlantis buys Relative Values…

The crtc has called for comments (PN 99-173) on an application filed by tvontario seeking discretionary analog distribution for tfo, the French-language educational service, by cable, dth and mds operators in Quebec. The commission’s call notes both tvo and tfo are…

Bellwood Stories’ Sheri Elwood and Carolynne Bell had no idea what they would be up against when they set out to make Deeply. The first feature production from the Toronto-based company, which wrapped principal photography at the end of October, endured…

This year’s Sharing Stories, an international tv and new media coproduction conference taking place in Edinburgh, Scotland, Nov. 12-14, will offer producers a chance to Cyberpitch their way to one of three £5,000 ($14,425) prizes….

Ottawa: Two years might be enough for the International Student Animation Festival (safo), says festival director Chris Robinson….

Vancouver: As Playback went to press, Vancouver’s Peace Arch Entertainment was offering ‘no comment’ to rumors it is involved in the new David Hasselhoff action series AKA Picasso – 22 episodes about a glamorous art thief who swaps his trade secrets…

*$125.7M top line for Motion…

Montreal: Claire Denis’ film Beau Travail has won the Banque Laurentienne’s Louvre D’Or, the top jury prize in the feature competition at this year’s 28th edition of the Montreal International Festival of New Cinema and New Media. The French director’s film…

three Canadian productions have been nominated for International Emmy Awards….

* SODECc president Pierre Lampron has been named president of TV5 Quebec, Canada, coordinating body for TV5 operations in the u.s., the Caribbean and Latin America….

Vancouver: Following in the footsteps of Madison and Northwood, new West Coast teen soap Edgemont Road (Water Street Productions) went into production Oct. 18. The 13-episode series for cbc explores the varied lives of kids aged 14 to 18….