Rizwan Manji (pictured) is taking the lead as Dr. Bob Khouri in the CBC pilot from Los Angeles-based Tim McAuliffe.
He will work with VP and senior producer Sarah Fodey to spearhead the company’s growing film and TV division.
The Toronto-based cross-platform producer will develop new animated comedy projects in the kids and scripted genres with former eOne exec Frank Saperstein’s (pictured) new venture.
Veteran TV exec Don Gaudet joins the Toronto-based broadcaster and production company as VP programming, while Cindy Boyd is upped to VP operations.
Called Shaw Go, the media co is launching a series of TV content apps, first for Western Canada’s Movie Central, with the second coming within a month.
The channel has greenlit a second season of Lively Media’s food series, which follows top Canadian chefs in their search for local ingredients.
Rekert recently received the Union of B.C. Performers’ Sam Payne Lifetime Achievement Award.
Previously helming the company’s distribution division as director of sales, she will take on the role of VP international sales and development.
Germany’s Super RTL has snapped up CGI-animated series Pirates, Adventures in Art from Canada’s DHX Media.
The Toronto-based production and distribution company has sold the one-hour doc Why Men Cheat, commissioned by the CBC, to Logo in the U.S.
The 10-episode competition series, in production in Toronto, will feature challenges based around recreational treasure-hunting activity geocaching.
The Canadian version of Never Ever Do This at Home is based on the original series from Norwegian broadcaster NRK and shopped internationally by DRG.