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Hot Sheet: Top 30 TV programs, April 25 to May 1, 2016
MasterChef Canada is at #15 for the week of April 25 to May 1, with Motive at #23 and Big Brother Canada at #27.
Layoffs at Corus as merger takes effect
Sales, marketing and content are among the departments impacted as Shaw Media is integrated into Corus.
Dennis Miller joins Thunderbird’s board of directors
Miller (pictured) will also serve as a strategic advisor to the Vancouver-based company.
The science of Discovering your audience
Discovery’s director of programming Lindsay Cowan Dotchison on how Discovery Science has boosted its viewership to best-ever levels.
CBC greenlights animated Atwood adaptation
Based on Margaret Atwood’s The Wide World of Wandering Wenda, the kids series will be produced by Breakthrough and PIP Animation.
DHX to go Backstage again
DHX Media has ordered a second season of Fresh TV’s teen series, which airs on Family Channel in Canada.
CTV orders user-gen special for Canada 150
The two-hour special is based on a crowd-sourced content format developed in 2010 by Scott Free Films.
B.C.’s Interactive Fund distributes $641K
The funding for interactive media projects was shared between 14 B.C.-based companies, including Vancouver’s RocketChicken Interactive.
Screen Nova Scotia Awards celebrate an industry in transition
CBC miniseries Studio Black! (team members pictured) won best TV series at the second annual awards.
Cynthia Lynch named FilmOntario managing director
Lynch (pictured) will assume the post in July, replacing interim managing director Mimi Wolch.
Hot Sheet: Top 20 DVDs April 18 to 24, 2016
Star Wars: The Force Awakens tops the DVD chart for the week of April 18 to 24, with The Revenant at #2 and Norm of the North at #3.
How HGTV set its ‘Home’ on a winning course
Corus executive John MacDonald on the engagement strategy that helped build a fan base for the series well ahead of its launch.
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