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Hot Sheet: Top 20 DVDs – Jan. 16 to Jan. 22, 2012
Abduction is the top-selling DVD for the week of Jan. 16 to Jan. 22, 2012.
YTV’s Splatalot makes a splash with time-starved moms
Ted Ellis, VP of kids and family programming at Corus Entertainment, tells Playback Daily how the Canada-UK-Australia co-production meets his network’s co-viewing strategy goals.
Playback Indie Survey profile: Aircraft Pictures
Co-presidents Anthony Leo and Andrew Rosen talk to Playback about online content creation, company growth and more pure evil for 2012.
CRTC postpones licence renewals for CBC
In a Jan. 31 letter to the Commission, the CBC requested that license renewals be postponed to allow for sufficient time to establish its operating budget, after the upcoming federal budget is announced.
HIT taps Arc for Thomas & Friends
The deal, which is the Toronto-based animation studio’s first venture into producing a global TV series, will see the studio animate new 11-minute episodes for the show’s 17th series, and one-hour feature-length specials.
Canada’s Got Talent to premiere in March
The reality series will air across 11 weeks and 22 episodes through to May 14.
Originality under the spotlight: Realscreen Summit 2012
An all-star panel of producers and commissioners discuss the issue of originality and copycat programming in non-fiction.
CMF dangles carrot to encourage more kids and doc shows on air
The industry is tweaking so-called factor weights used to calculate broadcaster performance envelopes to get more homegrown genre programming and digital media extensions made.
Karen King leaves drama production post at Shaw Media
The veteran industry exec’s Global TV credits included Da Kink in My Hair, Shattered and The Guard.
Realscreen Summit 2012: Talking trends
Network programmers and prodco heads weighed in on trends in non-fiction TV, and what they’re looking to buy and sell, during a Realscreen Summit panel session this week.
A World of Wonders adds international sales
Genuine Pictures has landed renewals with TVB (Hong Kong) and inked a new distribution deal for its live-action HD kids series, A World of Wonders, which currently airs on TVOKids.
Astral Media posts higher Q1 earnings, despite economic headwinds
The Canadian broadcaster posted improved TV subscriber and ad revenue, even as its radio revenue was down slightly.
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