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TV
Laura Vandervoort joins Bitten cast
The Canuck actress is taking on a lead role as the world’s only female werewolf in the upcoming Space series from No Equal Entertainment, Hoodwink Entertainment and eOne.
Prime Time 2013: Lack of scale and talent holding back Canadian content
“I don’t think we think enough about what people want to watch and where they want to watch it,” Shaw Media content topper Christine Shipton told a panel on Canadian content.
Bite TV gets brand overhaul
The Blue Ant Media property is repositioning itself to better reflect its male 18-to-49 demo.
Weekly roundup: Online projects, acquisitions and greenlights
This week’s batch of briefs includes news ofVersus Valerie’s YouTube debut, Breakthrough’s acquisition of Shanghai Gypsy and Tricon’s The Next Star getting a sixth season order (Versus Valerie’s Hannah Spear pictured).
Noreen Halpern pacts with CORE
Halfire-CORE Entertainment will produce scripted programs for the North American and international marketplace (Halpern pictured).
Duopoly’s House Sitters launches on Funny or Die
In addition to being featured at the well-known humour website, a 90-minute version of the scripted comedy has been picked up by Hollywood Suite.
First week of Big Brother Canada draws 4.6 million viewers
As well, 215,000 hours of live-feed video of the house guests (pictured) has been streamed from bigbrothercanada.ca, Shaw Media reports.
Playback preps annual Indie Production Survey
UPDATED: NOW FEATURES EASY-TO-DOWNLOAD PDF. The results of the survey will be published in the Summer issue of Playback, which will be available at the Banff World Media Festival as well as sent to subscribers.
Prime Time 2013: TV players need to embrace future, not fight it
In an opening keynote, digital visionary Robert Tercek told delegates at the Ottawa conference the TV industry needs to devote more energy on embracing new and innovative business models and companies like Netflix (pictured) and Aereo.
Shaun Smyth recruited for recurring role on AMC’s The Killing
The Glasgow-born, Calgary-raised actor, who recently completed an arc on Fringe, will have a recurring role on the crime drama series.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus to receive Banff World Media Festival tribute
The Seinfeld co-star (pictured in Veep) will be recognized for her contribution to TV during the annual Rockie Awards gala.
Prime Time 2013: CTV orders full season of Spun Out comedy
Project 10 Productions is to produce another 12 episodes of the Dave Foley-starring multi-camera sitcom, in addition to the pilot episode shot in January 2013.
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