Sci Fi Channel, owned by USA Network, has picked up the American rights to Salter Street Films’ science-fiction series Lexx. Sci Fi will being airing Lexx’s second season, consisting of 20 hour-long episodes, in January and has an option for the…

*Wimzie licensee deal…

The Discovery Channel has begun steaming up the tube with the launch of its newest series, The Sex Files. ‘The Erection’, its premiere episode which aired on Oct. 6, drew an average audience of 221,000 viewers, ranking it as one of…

Montreal: Telefilm Canada is organizing or assisting in the organization of four coming programs aimed at developing coproduction ties with Europe….

*CBC wins Emmy…

Bill Roberts is secretary-general of the North American Broadcasters Association….

Preproduction begins this January in Winnipeg on Without A Word, a Minds Eye Pictures service production starring Patrick Swayze. The $7-million picture is a contemporary Flashdance-type story from l.a.-based Franchise Pictures. Principal photography begins in March 2000….

Mischief Films, Toronto’s newest prodco, helmed by event producer Debbie Nightingale and veteran mow producer Stanley Brooks, is set to get going on its first two projects, both of which the partners will co-exec produce….

Cannes, France: The meetings agenda for most Canadian producers and exporters at this year’s mipcom was literally non-stop, running to appointments from early morning to mid-evening. Even that pace seemed surpassed by Montreal producer Paul Cadieux, who has been making the…

Vancouver: Raymond Massey is line producing Lynne Stopkewich’s follow-up narrative feature Suspicious River, a film packaged by Cassian Elwes, who heads up the production unit of William Morris Agency….

Toronto’s Spin Productions has added the well-known New York-based director and graphic designer David Carson to its roster of talent. The move furthers Spin’s position in the graphics branch of the industry, having signed representation deals with design shops BarkinHotStudio and…

Imported Artists director Richard D’Alessio and dop Stefan Czapsky have been extremely busy of late. The pair spent a total of 17 days shooting a number of spots for three different makes of gm vehicles. D’Alessio and Czapsky filmed four spots…