TV

AToMiC: Teletoon starts a vampire-human street fight

The game will let players choose – in 3D – how the My Babysitter’s a Vampire series will end.

TV handyman Mike Holmes restructures production shingle

The co-CEOs of The Holmes Group have been split up, with Pete Kettlewell to head up a new spinoff production company, Point Load Pictures.

Vampires, rock stars and practical jokers join Teletoon’s winter sked

My Babysitter’s a Vampire hits the youth channel’s lineup this January, alongside two new Canadian series and the debut of the Vancouver-shot The Haunting Hour.

Hot Sheet

Hot Sheet: Top 20 DVDs – Nov. 7 to Nov. 13, 2011

The latest and last installment of the Harry Potter franchise takes over the DVD chart for the week.

Hot Sheet

Hot Sheet: Top 30 TV programs – Nov. 14 to Nov. 20, 2011

Once again, The Big Bang Theory takes the top spot, while Global’s House rises to #2.

Exclusive: Reunion taps 24’s Jon Cassar to helm Out of Time pilot

Lensing the Vancouver-set police procedural follows Cassar directing all eight episodes of The Kennedys miniseries for Shaw Media.

CBC study: Ad-free pubcaster would be bad public policy

CBC/Radio-Canada has released a new study concluding that an end to its dependence on TV ad dollars would have a significant negative effect on its Canadian programming budget.

How two superfans got Score Media to fund their bucket list

Laurence Payne and Ethan Cole tell Playback Daily about getting Buster Douglas to box in Ohio and Ben Johnson to stalk Carl Lewis in New Jersey.

CRTC approves Bell Media’s ‘Bella’ channel

The new specialty will target young women with lifestyle-based programming.

Bardel Entertainment expands to Kelowna, B.C.

The animation studio and production company is adding a new office in B.C.’s Interior, and working on new-talent incubation with Okanagan College.

News

eOne pacts with Impossible Pictures on factual slate

The codevelopment deal will see the Canadian and British producers make documentaries for international distribution.

HGTV U.S. picks up another Canadian home design show

The American channel has acquired 52 hours of Love It Or List It from Big Coat Productions, which airs on W Network.