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Super Channel bankrolls its first original drama series
Forgive Me, written and directed by Thom Fitzgerald and produced by Emotion Pictures, tackles the challenges to religious beliefs such as same-sex marriage and reproductive technology.
CTV, Insight to bring The Amazing Race to Canada
Insight Productions will produce the local version of the international franchise, slated for summer 2013.
Black Tree Pictures production shingle unveiled
The Vancouver-based prodco, run by actress Nicole Leier (pictured) and director of photography Brendan Uegama, have multiple projects currently underway.
BuzzTaxi takes Jack the Ripper, Mob Stories to Europe
Toronto-based BuzzTaxi Communications has sold assorted factual and doc series, including Mob Stories (pictured), to broadcasters in Poland, Germany, France and Russia among other territories.
Weekly roundup: Season premieres, awards and channel changes
Bomb Girls’ season two premiere date set, NSI online short film festival wins announced, Channel Zero unveils Rewind and ZoomerMedia’s Joytv gets national satellite carriage.
Tricon’s Ex-Wives of Rock gets U.S. carriage
The female-focused non-fiction series (pictured) will anchor a new Friday night schedule devoted to original series on Fuse, a national music channel.
Tricon’s Andrea Gorfolova to get entrepreneur award
The president and founder of Tricon (pictured), who fled Eastern Europe during the end of the Communist era, is receiving the award in part for “her courage in fleeing a restrictive regime and triumph in overcoming extraordinary obstacles.”
Michael Polis exits DHX Media-owned Wildbrain Entertainment
While Polis (pictured) has left his position as Wildbrain’s president and DHX’s EVP of branded entertainment and consumer products, he will continue to lead DHX’s transmedia kids IP UMIGO project.
Cinemax action drama Strike Back debuts on Showcase
The drama channel, unveiling its winter schedule Wednesday, said it will also air the second seasons of Justified, XIII and Rizzoli & Isles (pictured).
Doc series bundled into Discovery school offering
Extraordinary Canadians from Montreal-based prodco PMA Biographies is a key element in Discovery Communications’ expanded Canadian educational streaming-video services (writer David Adams Richards pictured).
CBC names new ombudsman
Esther Enkin (pictured) currently the executive editor of CBC News will replace Kirk LaPointe in the position at the start of 2013.
TVO opens its second annual short doc contest
The pubcaster seeks Ontario-based filmmakers to create a five-minute doc that challenges perceptions of poverty as part of its contribution to the global Why Poverty? film project.
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