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Red Sky Performance launches Indigenous-focused streamer

Aki Creators is a subscription-based platform launched this month with partners including distributor Isuma and prodco Rugged Media.

Super Channel launches two FAST channels

Super Channel Hearties and Super Channel Uncovered have been rolled out on LG Channels.

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Hot Sheet: Last Week Tonight With John Oliver demand surges

Hazbin Hotel returned to the top of the overall TV demand chart.

CMF’s Perspectives report examines changing screen sector

The second edition of the funder’s trend report looks at recent business model shifts and how the sector needs to evolve with technology.

Filming underway in Calgary on season three of Abracadavers

The comedy web series is produced by Alberta-based prodco Numera Films.

Deals: Thunderbird, Candour, Boat Rocker, 63 Lights

Thunderbird adds more sales and partners for Mermicorno: Starfall, Canadian prodcos bring sales prospects to Cannes, and more.

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Hot Sheet: SNL tops TV demand chart after Ryan Gosling episode

The sketch comedy show ended the reign of Prime Video’s Hazbin Hotel at the top of the overall TV chart.

In Brief: CMF, MFM launch doc predevelopment program

Plus: MTV2 goes dark, the Toronto Jewish Film Festival spotlights Canada and Winnipeg, and Pluto TV adds more FAST channels.

Crave commissions detective comedy Double jeu

The French-language series is created by stars Rachid Badouri and Mehdi Bousaidan and will debut in 2025.

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Hot Sheet: Fallout cracks digital top three in April

The digital chart featured five Prime Video series, with Hazbin Hotel leading once again.

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Hot Sheet: Hazbin Hotel leads demand charts in early April

Invincible and Stranger Things completed the digital originals top three.

CBC unveils spring/summer podcast slate

The lineup includes a podcast on a 2015 curling scandal, produced by Vancouver’s Kelly & Kelly and Ed Helms’ Pacific Electric Pictures.