The Corus-owned channel will be airing the premieres during a free channel preview that runs from Dec. 15 to Jan. 31, 2011.
Vancouver is to host production on JJ Abrams’s Alcatraz-themed pilot for Fox.
Discovery Channel Canada’s Dino Week started off with a bang (pun intended), as Last Day of the Dinosaurs becomes the channel’s most watched special event broadcast.
Another day, another record for TSN’s CFL numbers.
Canadian sketch comic John Catucci is hosting the Lone Eagle Entertainment’s You Gotta Eat Here! for Food Network Canada.
Randy Quaid’s on-going bizarre journey to stay in Canada has taken him to Rogers Arena in Vancouver for an on-ice interview with Mark Critch of This Hour Has 22 Minutes.
Molly Parker (Swingtown, Deadwood) has landed the lead in Lifetime Network’s drama pilot Meet Jane from producer Warner Horizon.
Kicking off Discovery Canada’s Dino Week is what VP of programming Ken MacDonald is calling their “most ambitious project of the year.”
Production is currently underway on a North American adaption of the UK hit drama series Skins. The 10 x 1-hour series is produced by Entertainment One, Company Pictures and MTV, in association with The Movie Network and Movie Central.
Toronto-based interactive studio zinc Roe is collaborating with production company Radical Sheep to develop an interactive extension of the new preschool series Stella and Sam, which premieres January 9 on Playhouse Disney in Canada.
OWN has announced that it will be debuting its monthly documentary club in spring of 2011, and that it has acquired three more titles to add to the films already on the roster.