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DHX taps Thom Chapman as territory manager
The former ToonBox Entertainment exec (pictured) will be responsible for sales to English-speaking Canada and the Asia Pacific territories.
CMPA target of DGC-screen composers alliance
The pact sees the Directors Guild of Canada negotiating with the producers’ association for a composers’ collective bargaining agreement (Screen Composers Guild president Marvin Dolgay pictured).
TruTV hits Panic Button
The Turner Broadcasting-owned network orders a U.S. version of 11 Television’s reality format, just as its Canadian series is set to premiere on Space on Apr. 30.
Weekly roundup: Premieres, awards and composer news
Today’s briefs include details on Geneva Film’s Foxed! (pictured) snagging a premiere at the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film and Tricon and Temple Street being nominated for Realscreen Awards.
In the writers’ room with WGC awards TV comedy nominees
Denis McGrath, Craig David Wallace and Kim Coghill sound off on their writers’ room must-haves and how they would bring Less Than Kind and Todd and the Book of Pure Evil together.
TSN partners with Running Room for digital series
The series features sports scientist and physiologist Dr. Greg Wells and offers insight on the science behind running.
Incendo co-chief Stephen Greenberg stepping down
With his departure, partner and co-founder Jean Bureau becomes the company’s president and sole shareholder (Bureau and Greenberg pictured).
Trifecta takes U.S. distribution rights to Republic of Doyle
The U.S. distributor is offering 26 episodes of the CBC dramedy for fall 2013.
Big Brother Canada nets big numbers on TV, web
The series drew its highest audience to date – 757,000 (V2+) for its Apr. 7 episode – while Shaw Media says viewers have streamed more than 1,000,000 hours of video from online live feeds over the last seven weeks.
Cineflix Studios pacts with U.K. indie producer Tony Wood
The joint venture Buccaneer Media is part of the Canadian company’s expansion into the international scripted market (Wood pictured).
TSN revs up F1 coverage with BlackBerry
The channel is expanding its F1 coverage with bonus coverage sponsored by the telecom and wireless company.
NSI adds Telus’ Prem Gill to board
Gill (pictured) directs Telus’ Optik TV video-on-demand storefront and drives local programming initiatives in B.C. and Alberta for Optik Local.
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