TV

Cancon consultations roll through T.O.

Incentives to export content and Canadian spending requirements: Consultation participants share their ideas. (Minister of Canadian Heritage Melanie Joly pictured.)

Amazing Race Canada to return for season five

On your marks, get set, go! The popular reality competition show will return to CTV in 2017.

Opinion: What Minister Joly should take from the Cancon consultations

If the current regulation stands, Canadian voices risk being lost in the crowd, says filmmaker and DGC National president Tim Southam.

TVO greenlights 16 Hudson

Produced by Vancouver-based Big Bad Boo Studios, the preschool series has secured deals with four national broadcasters.

Yeti Farm bolsters leadership team

The Kelowna animation studio has tapped the talents of former Rainmaker, Club Penguin and Studio B execs as it looks to expand its slate of originals.

Former eOne exec takes on new role at Cineflix

Peter Emerson has been named president of the Montreal-based producer and distributor.

Cameras roll on The Disappearance

The six-part original, which is currently filming in Montreal, will air on CTV and Super Ecran.

Ex-Nelvana execs helm Bento Box’s new kids division

Irene Weibel and Andrew Kerr have co-founded Sutikki, which already has a project with In the Night Garden creator Andrew Davenport in the works.

Quebecor Content inks content deal with Endemol Shine

The three-year agreement gives the media co exclusive rights to broadcast programs such as MasterChef Junior USA (pictured) in French-speaking Canada.

Hot Sheet

Hot Sheet: Top 20 DVDs Sept. 19 to 25, 2016

Captain America: Civil War is at #1, with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows at #2 and Beauty and the Beast at #3.

WIFT-T names Corus Media Management participants

Jaime Bassett and Angel Forbes are among the 13 individuals selected for the second iteration of the program.

NPA welcomes first Canadian prodco

Toronto-based Cream Productions has joined the Nonfiction Producers Association, as the organization adds new membership options. (Cream CEO David Brady pictured.)