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Corus Entertainment’s Q2 profit down
Lower TV and radio station revenue reduced earnings at the Canadian broadcaster.
Space renews Being Human
The latest 13-episode fourth season pick-up follows Syfy similarly ordering another cycle from Muse Entertainment.
Space, Ztele acquire Cybergeddon
The MIPTV deals bring the Yahoo web drama shot in Hamilton, Ontario to Canadian TV sets (Olivier Martinez in Cybergeddon pictured).
David Oland named Brightlight VP business, legal affairs
The news comes as the company regroups following the departures of co-founder Stephen Hegyes and former VP business and legal affairs Karyn Edwards (Oland pictured).
City Life pacts with Tribeca on pilot exchange program
The initiative will see three City Life Film Project filmmakers paired with three Tribeca Film Fellow students to pitch ideas, screen their films, and attend the 2013 Tribeca and TIFF festivals.
TARA awards handed out
Glass Eye Pictures’ The Path (pictured) dominated the Ryerson’s Radio and Television Arts program kudosfest.
Canadian Social TV top 3 – week of Mar. 31
In this week’s installment, we see how a Big Brother Canada programming-cum-plot twist caused a spike in discussion of the property online.
marblemedia plans follow-up to Splatalot
The kids game show Japanizi: Going, Going, Gong! has been sold to Disney XD and YTV.
Strombo to host CNN summer interview series
CBC host George Stroumboulopoulos is joining the U.S. network’s summer lineup as host of a one-hour interview series, to be filmed in L.A. in front of a live audience.
Space’s Bitten casts male leads
Paul Greene (pictured) is to play the live-in boyfriend for Laura Vandervoort’s lead werewolf character in the Canadian sci-fi drama.
Space joins Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell co-pro
Quebec’s Cite-Amerique is also on board the seven-part mini-series commissioned by BBC One, set to begin production this summer in Quebec and the U.K.
L.A.-based DAX opens Toronto office
The entertainment-industry focused cloud computing company aims to tap into the expanding U.S. service and domestic TV and film productions based in Ontario.
Family Channel re-orders The Next Step
Principal photography on the second season of Temple Street’s single-cam scripted drama will begin in the summer.
Slice’s Money Moron joins TV intervention genre
Financial guru Gail Vaz-Oxlade (pictured) talks to Playback about her latest TV show, to debut on April 19.
Guidestones, dirtgirlworld earn International Emmys
The trophies were handed out to the Canadian digital projects at MIPTV (Guidestones pictured).
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