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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.

Hot Sheet

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.

Hot Sheet

Hot Sheet: Fallout cracks digital top three in April

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

Hot Sheet

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.

Rogers, Amazon, NHL ink two-year Monday Night hockey deal

Under the deal, Prime Video will become the home of Monday Night Games in Canada starting in the 2024-25 season.

Bell Media launches 10 FAST channels

The English- and French-language channels include news, lifestyle and factual programming, and a comedy franchise.

Border2Border kicks off comedy web series Settle Down in Toronto

The series follows a successful queer matchmaker who struggles with his own love life and will release on OUTtv.com next year.

Deals: Love Nature, Pluto TV, WildBrain

Love Nature reveals its slate of new original series, Pluto TV launches a Hindi-language FAST channel in Canada, plus more.

HighballTV acquires 26-film catalogue from Films We Like

The North American SVOD will roll out the Canadian and international films between April and July.