TV

TVO’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin to end after season 19

Filling its timeslot at the Ontario pubcaster in the fall is a new public affairs program The Rundown.

Northwinds Productions’ Drink docuseries records Webby win

Other winners include the CBC podcast Personal Best and the indie game Balatro.

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Hot Sheet: The Handmaid’s Tale leaps in demand with final season

HBO’s The Last of Us landed at No. 3 on the overall TV originals chart following its season two release.

Deals: Sinking Ship, CBC Gem, Blue Ant Media

Sinking Ship sells its latest dino spinoff abroad, CBC Gem to premiere Telus original Not Your Butter Chicken, and more

Eagle Vision returns to Taken with season five

The docuseries focused on solving the mysteries behind Canada’s missing and murdered Indigenous people premiered its fourth season in 2019.

Bell Media adds Celeste Parr’s Prejudice to development slate

A series order for the project would mark the first show produced under Bell Media’s content licensing and distribution agreement with Fox Entertainment Global.

In Brief: North of North hits Netflix’s global top 10

Plus: Bell Fibe TV1 greenlights season two of Normal Scotia, Racewalkers set to kick off the Blue Mountain Film + Media Festival, and more.

IPF selects 21 short-form series for development program

The funder received a record 225 applications to support genre-diverse scripted projects.

Crave orders Project Runway Canada return

The fashion competition series enters production at Toronto Metropolitan University this summer.

Montreal’s Laughing Dragon Studios is closing its doors

The 23-year-old 2D animation studio did service work for clients including Disney and Apple TV+.

Seven Knowledge Network docs set for 2025 debuts

According to a release from the pubcaster, 21% of B.C.’s ​Canada Media Fund funding for documentaries in 2023/24 were triggered by first-window license fees from Knowledge Network.

WildBrain enters renegotiations for IoM channel deal

According to a release, the renegotiations were initialized after WildBrain was unable to negotiate a new carriage agreement with Bell Canada.