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Deals close at DHX
After seeing Global step up for a second run of The Guard, DHX Media sells the first season of its well-traveled Kid vs. Kat to Jetix U.S.
The Establishing Shot: Floodgates for foreign services unlikely to open
As the issue you now hold hits the street, the first week of the CRTC’s BDU hearings is wrapping up. And with the number of players appearing, and given the scope of the issues being addressed, this Gatineau powwow has the potential to redraw the entire Canadian television system as we know it.
The Small Screen: Giving to your favorite broadcast charity
I am having a head-scratching bit of déjà vu here. Wasn’t it just over a year ago that the conventional networks were hitting up the CRTC for fee-for-carriage? And here we are again; every hotel suite in Ottawa-Gatineau filled, early morning and early evening, with the tapping of laptops, the buzzing of BlackBerrys, and the swish of dress-shirts coming on and off amid hangovers current and anticipated.
Quebec producers cut out red tape
MONTREAl: From the makers of hit teen movie A vos marques…party! to the cheeky indie flick Bluff, more Quebec producers are bringing their projects to life without help from SODEC and Telefilm Canada, by cutting costs and pulling in extra investors in a bid to keep their projects fresh.
RDS tops CBC in playoff coverage
French-language sports specialty scores its highest ratings ever for first-round game featuring the Montreal Canadiens. Global grows PGA Masters audience
Canwest gets talent manager
Entertainment and media consultant PJ Tarasuk hired to manage and boost Canwest’s homegrown stars
Costello to host for CTV
An Elvis Costello-hosted talk/music series developed by CTV is to air on the Sundance Channel in the U.S. and Channel 4 in the U.K.
Willis to go Wild in Winnipeg
Teen daughter of action star in final talks for sex comedy set to shoot early next month at Farpoint, though coproducer Gavin Wilding has dropped out
Teens, the wild – what could go wrong?
YTV has ordered 13 episodes of Survivorman Kids, a pint-size series ‘inspired’ by the reality series, from Toronto’s 9 Story Entertainment, which has brought in filmmaker and survival expert Les Stroud.
Crawford has a Problem
Gavin Crawford has signed on to host How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?, the Sound of Music casting series from CBC and Temple Street Productions.
Skiing Eagle takes off
Slated for production this winter in Calgary and the U.K., the feature copro Eddie the Eagle will retell the exploits of 1988 Winter Olympics oddity Michael Edwards. British comedian Steve Coogan is signed to star as the bespectacled ski-jumping no-hoper under the direction of Declan Lowney (Little Britain) from a screenplay by Sean Macaulay. Producers are John Heyman of London’s World Film Services, Rupert Maconick of U.S.-based Saville Productions and Roy Krost of Vancouver-based Silver Screen International.
Decode, Neptuno land in Poppets Town
DHX Media’s Decode Entertainment and Spain’s Neptuno Films are joining forces for the first time to produce the new animated preschool series Poppets Town.
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