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Hot Sheet: Top 20 DVDs (Sept 13-19, 2010)
Hot Sheet: Top 20 DVDs (Sept 13-19, 2010)
Shaw Rocket Prize finalists announced
The Shaw Rocket Fund, the not-for-profit corporation dedicated to supporting Canadian youth and family television programming, has announced the five finalists for this year’s $50,000 prize awarded to the best Canadian program targeted to children between the ages of six and 12.
Kelly Rowan to star in Breakthrough TV mysteries
Breakthrough Entertainment has teamed up with Salient Point Productions and Colossal Entertainment to co-produce a series of TV mystery movies.
Wingin’ It reupped at CBBC
UK channel CBBC has re-upped the Temple Street Productions tween comedy Wingin’ It for a second season as part of a deal by international distributor BBC Worldwide.
Teletoon and Nerd Corps develop Endangered Species
Vancouver-based Nerd Corps Entertainment’s latest original series is moving into development with animation net Teletoon.
KidsCo partners with CCI Entertainment
International children’s channel KidsCo has acquired exclusive new kid’s content from Canadian distributor CCI Entertainment.
People moves at Interactive Ontario
Provincial industry org Interactive Ontario has brought on two new execs to bolster its team as it also says goodbye to one of its own.
Jay Baruchel in Goon hockey comedy
Jay Baruchel and Seann William Scott are teaming up to star in the Michael Dowse-directed comedy Goon, the Raging Bull of hockey movies from indie producers Don Carmody, David Gross and Jesse Shapira.
Specialties respond to CRTC programming mandate queries
It’s a truism in Canadian TV that specialty broadcasters will sometimes stray from their original programming mandates by rebranding before the CRTC’s gravity attempts to reel them back in.
North Shore co-founder Stephen J. Cannell dies
Stephen J. Cannell, who partnered during the late 1980s with Paul Bronfman to build North Shore Studios in Vancouver, died Thursday night at his Pasadena home, aged 69 years.
Portfolio sells Everyday Exotic to Cooking Channel
Portfolio International has sold the Canadian cooking series Everyday Exotic from Magee TV to the Cooking Channel stateside.
Proper TV unrolls two new factual series at MIPCOM
Indie producer Proper Television is to produce Tabloid History, a cheeky look at world historical figures, for History Television Canada.
Theatrical/VOD release for Quebec film
FunFilms Distribution has a novel way to release Francois Delisle’s Deux fois une femme into the Canadian market: a simultaneous theatrical and VOD bow on October 29.
Corus reorganizes Television division teams
Corus Entertainment has made a slew of new appointments in the Television division, within the Programming and Production and International teams, that align the programming and commissioning by content rather than by TV property.
Bennie leaves CTV to consult
Isme Bennie has given up her CTV management responsibilities to start her own consultation firm.
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