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Ironside joins Terminator
Sci-fi vet to appear alongside Christian Bale
E! spotlights Canadians
Tricon’s True Hollywood Story profiles Nelly Furtado, Michael Cera and others
CBC, ABC committed for Life
Networks to work together on sitcom pilot 18 to Life from Galafilm. Degrassi and Life with Derek stars Stacey Farber and Michael Seater cast as teen newlyweds
Nadda, Iron shoot ‘impossible’ movie
Warned by no less than Atom Egoyan about shooting in Egypt, second-time director took her Cairo Time romance there anyway
Van der Heyden co-anchors in Montreal
Supper hour newscast on CTV to be shared by local vet and Mutsumi Takahashi
CBC to explore India in HD
In-house special set for fall to explore collision of modernity and tradition
B.C. studios busy, others quiet across country
Montreal and Toronto are both pointing to the potential Screen Actors Guild strike to explain why mega-soundstages such as Montreal’s Mel’s Cité du Cinéma and Toronto’s Filmport are basically idle during what is typically the summer service shooting bonanza. However, Vancouver has several big-budget American features shooting over the next few months, including 20th Century Fox’s Night at the Museum 2 (starring Ben Stiller), which is currently in production through to September.
The Small Screen: Entertainment One’s dog and pony show
If you’re an independent television producer wondering how Entertainment One’s recently proposed $51-million takeover of Blueprint Entertainment, Barna-Alper Productions, Oasis International and Maximum Films is going to affect you, you’re about to find out.
Canwest looks to develop showrunners
As Canadian broadcasters get set to crank up the fall TV war, the next Corner Gas or Little Mosque on the Prairie may well emerge from Canwest Broadcasting’s writers and showrunner training programs, which kicked off at the recent Banff World Television Festival.
The creation of a primetime hit
Cop series Flashpoint is lapping up praise for the amazing numbers its debut episode scored for both CTV and CBS, and it promises to be the first homegrown drama to make it in U.S. network primetime since Due South. Of course, we have yet to see how many of the eight million-plus summertime American viewers who tuned into the pilot will return, but in the meanwhile, we can all rejoice.
Ceeb has Olympics all covered
Have you ever been frustrated because your favorite Olympic event is not the one being shown on TV? Not to worry, because at long last broadcasters are finally able to give you the power to choose the events you watch. All it took was the miracle of broadband video streaming.
Big ideas at Blueprint
Blueprint Entertainment’s kids division is developing a preschool series – dubbed ‘Sesame Street for the Soul’ – based on the award-winning Dewey Doo-it books.
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