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In the writers’ room with Bob Kushell
The Anger Management exec producer and creator of BBC series Way to Go talks about the elements of a good pilot and pitch document, and his best pitch that didn’t make it.
Sportsnet scores record ratings with Blue Jays opener
The Rogers Media channel brought in an average audience of 1.4 million viewers, a 13% jump over last year’s numbers.
Canadian Social TV top 3 – week of Mar. 24
This week we see how an across-the-board increase in Facebook-based interactions influenced the social TV marketshare of Big Brother Canada, Degrassi and Republic of Doyle.
Distribution360 adds Cuppa Coffee content to slate
Going forward, the Toronto-based animation house will also co-develop new projects with marblemedia, Distribution360’s partner company. (Bruno and the Banana Bunch pictured).
U.S. cable net Pivot takes Little Mosque
The scripted comedy (pictured) will be available via the new cable network’s linear streaming or mobile on-demand services.
Shaftesbury to shop TV rights to Goalpost Films at MIPTV 2013
The U.K. film sales company has turned to the Canadian indie distributor to secure TV right deals for its movie library (Michael Winterbottom’s The Trip pictured).
The Comedy Network’s Match Game gets second season order
Producer Zone3 will shoot in Toronto another 60 episodes of the comedic game show based on the international format from FremantleMedia.
eOne shopping Canuck series Seed, Panic Button at MIPTV
The company will also bring new offerings Rogue and Offbeat Roads, among many others, to the French market (Rogue pictured).
CBC brings back Battle of the Blades
The pubcaster has confirmed the reality show is back as part of its fall slate of shows, as it rolls out the list of returning titles.
In the writers’ room with Daegan Fryklind
Ahead of the Toronto Screenwriting Conference this weekend, the exec producer of upcoming supernatural series Bitten talks showrunning shop and working with adapted material versus original scripts.
TV auctioneers Dan and Laura Dotson on casting Storage Wars Canada
“Canada is full of characters, just like anywhere else, and it’s just a matter of sifting them out and saying, okay, here’s a really good guy. He knows what’s he’s doing,” Dan Dotson told Playback.
Shaw Media’s Andrew Akman lands at Cineflix Media
The veteran broadcast executive (pictured) will fill the newly-created position of COO, managing day-to-day operations at the fast-growing indie TV producer.
DHX Media inks supply deal with Kidoodle.TV
The deal follows earlier supply agreements with Amazon, blinkbox, Dailymotion and Wananchi as the kids producer exploits its growing library after acquiring Cookie Jar Entertainment.
Thunderbird Films appoints Ivan Fecan as board chairman
The industry mogul comes on board the Vancouver-based indie, which also has 50-50 partnership Sea to Sky Studios with Lionsgate to produce TV series for international broadcast and cable networks.
Hot Docs adds $20,000 in prizes
Additional coin is up for grabs at this year’s Hot Docs film festival, with the Toronto event adding to its Don Haig Award and Audience Award pots.
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