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The Small Screen: Canwest just wants ‘to get to work’
Some years back, at a dinner at the Banff TV festival, a commissioning editor friend introduced me to a production executive at Global. I remember trying to come up with a polite way of asking him what the heck it was that he did all day. This was during the bad old days when Train 48 seemed to be Global’s only answer to Cancon.
Saturday Night gets a makeover
TVOntario’s Saturday Night at the Movies, which has brought classic Hollywood films into living rooms since 1974, is getting a makeover.
Barker exits Shaftesbury
Battle for control at company ends with Christina Jennings as sole chairman and CEO. Former partner to focus on large-format films
Slice bows first cross-platform series
Developed for broadcast both online and on television, How to Make Love to My Wife debuts with web extras on Slice.ca
Sea Wolf sails into Halifax
HALIFAX: A new adaptation of Jack London’s oceangoing novel The Sea Wolf is launching from the Halifax waterfront, while the feature Noah’s Arc is getting off the ground in town.
Storm Hawks invades GMTV
Series by Vancouver shop Nerd Corps added to U.K. channel’s morning schedule
Ottawa B-team strikes again
Take wrestler-turned-actor The Rock, relocate him to Guadalajara by way of northern Ontario, and divide his fee by about 10,000 (that’s a guess) and you’ll get Ian Hodgkinson, better known to Mexican wrestling fans as El Vampiro Canadienese.
Swank, Carmody attached to Amelia
Computer retailer-turned-producer Ted Waitt has signed Hilary Swank to star as famed aviatrix Amelia Earhart in a biopic set to shoot in Toronto and Nova Scotia.
Max Films revisits ice storm
MONTREAL: Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. That’s the mantra of the producers behind Romaine par moins 30 – the story of a Parisian’s first contact with a Canadian winter.
Atta boy!
The Minds Eye Entertainment miniseries The Englishman’s Boy fared respectably on CBC on March 2 and 9. The $11 million period piece, about a scribe (Michael Therriault, left) who befriends an old-time cowboy (Nicholas Campbell) with many stories to tell, attracted an average audience of 684,000. The DVD was slated to hit stores on March 11. Meanwhile, Regina’s Minds Eye is wrapping the Canada/France copro feature Walled In, starring Mischa Barton and Deborah Kara Unger
CTV adds radio simulcast to Junos
Newly acquired CHUM stations added to mix of conventional, specialty and online coverage of annual music awards
CBC expands Heartland
Network wants an extra five eps of Heartland for ’08/09, looking to tighten its grip with families on Sundays. Horse opera did ‘exactly as we hoped,’ says Layfield
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