If the Banff World Television Festival is cutting edge, then nextMEDIA is bleeding edge.

Reveille Productions (The Office, Ugly Betty, The Biggest Loser) and Brillstein Entertainment Partners have joined with Twitter to make the first worldwide television series using Twitter to direct the action of the unscripted show. The series will be executive produced by Reveille managing directors Mark Koops and Howard T. Owens; Brillstein partners Jon Liebman, CEO, and Lee Kernis; and Amy Ephron, Kevin Foxe and Steven Latham.

Pact, the U.K. indie producer trade body, has joined forces with the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising to campaign for a Digital Rights Framework enabling digital content and software creators to retain and exploit their IP for any content funded by government, NGOs and other public bodies.

The BBC and YouTube have renewed and extended their partnership, with the broadcaster launching a channel on the video site called Explore with BBC Worldwide. The new offering joins current BBC channel Food from BBC Worldwide, and will be followed in the coming weeks by additional outlets, such as BBC Earth and BBC America (only in the U.S., with some full-length episodes) as well as a yet-to-be-named comedy channel.

ACTRA and the Writers Guild of Canada have both spoken out against the…

The former CBCer has a new job at the Toronto shop as VP of interactive production. The newly created…

The 2009 Stanley Cup Playoffs are proving to be a breakout when it comes to online offerings, as each Canuck broadcaster tries its own digital power play. Whether it’s online video streaming or offering up new forms of digital content, the casters are pulling out all the stops in a bid to keep hockey fans engaged right up until Lord Stanley’s Mug is hoisted in June.

Mobile video retailer MoboVivo has picked up The Tudors, adding the CBC’s…

Mobile ancillaries aren’t what they used to be. Yup, they might actually pay now.

It looks like News Corp. is sick of getting its butt whooped by Facebook. The media conglom is shaking up its social networking site MySpace, hiring former Facebook COO Owen Van Natta as its new CEO, and former Sling Media president and MTV chief digital guru Jason Hirschhorn as chief product officer. (Van Natta comes to MySpace after a brief stint as CEO of Playlist.com.) Add to that the hire of AOL senior vice-president Michael Jones as chief operating officer, and it suggests some interesting moves are afoot at MySpace.

YouTube has launched two new features to make video networking and viewing far simpler – and much more like television.

Flash has made the leap to TV with the rollout of the new Adobe Flash Platform for the Digital Home, making HD video available for output on Internet-connected TVs, set-top boxes, Blu-ray players and the other assorted living room digital-age flotsam. What that means to non-geeks is that Flash-based applications will soon be able to run equally well on home television screens, the Web or mobile phones. (Right now, according to comScore Media Metrix, approximately 80% of online videos viewed worldwide are delivered using Adobe Flash, and the Adobe Flash Player is installed on 98% of Internet-connected desktops.)