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TV
No Joy for managers
B.C. station loses two to layoffs as parent S-VOX looks to stabilize finances
Original Pictures links with Lenz
Falcon Beach prodco to develop programming with Toronto music shop. CEO predicts ‘a lot of consolidation’ in industry’s future
Defying Gravity falls off schedules
ABC and CTV drop Vancouver-made sci-fi. Remaining episodes to run on Space
Dramas shuffled on Ceeb
Tudors, The Border and Being Erica trade timeslots going into fall. Ron James takes over for Air Farce
Fight brewing on Wednesday nights
Global has an early lead on the strength of Glee, but will CTV and Criminal Minds have the last laugh?
Rogers sends ‘no fees’ notice
War of paperwork continues as cable giant files with CRTC
The path to Discovery
As president and general manager of one of the country’s most recognizable specialties, Discovery Channel’s Paul Lewis has some advantages his cable cohorts don’t enjoy. But that hasn’t kept him complacent.
Béraud arrives at SRC by way of Paris and… Rimouski
Radio-Canada’s director of television is swooning over her latest hire, André Béraud, who is returning from a stint in Paris to fill one of Quebec TV’s most important jobs: head of drama and feature films at SRC.
VFX booming in B.C., but post shops feel the recession
The Vancouver VFX business is booming, with U.S. studios bringing high-profile effects projects to the province.
Toronto shops gear up for fall
It’s been a cruel, cruel summer for Toronto post shops, but the forecast calls for a sunnier fall, thanks mostly to a busy domestic TV sector.
Mr. X proud of creating Ang Lee’s ‘acid trip’
For the Ang Lee film Taking Woodstock, digital effects studio Mr. X composed a total of 138 shots that helped recreate the scene at Woodstock in 1969. The goal of the 45 artists on the team was to generate a sense of realism – even when visualizing an acid trip.
Super man gave Keyframe flight in Niagara-on-the-Lake
‘When we started [in 1997], our goal was to do animation for video games,’ says Darren Cranford, co-founder of Keyframe Digital Productions. What Cranford and co-founder Clint Green didn’t expect was that their work would catch the eye of TV and film producers who would recruit them for pre-visualizations, 2D and 3D animation, and all manner of visual effects. Today, most of their clients are repeat customers. ‘They’ve been loyal to us, so we want to be loyal to them,’ says Cranford.
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