CCI heads to Oz to Get Ace

Toronto’s CCI Entertainment is teaming with Australian prodco Galaxy Pop for the animated series Get Ace.

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Hot Sheet: Top 20 Programs (Sept. 13-19, 2010)

Comedy’s back in Canadian primetime

Could it be that comedy has returned from ratings purgatory? This young season’s numbers certainly suggest it.

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Hot Sheet: Top 5 Canadian Films (Sept. 17-23, 2010)

Hot Sheet: Top 5 Canadian Films (Sept. 17-23, 2010)

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Hot Sheet: Top 10 Films (Sept. 17-23 2010)

Hot Sheet: Top 10 Films (Sept. 17-23 2010)

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Hot Sheet: Top 20 DVDs (Sept 6-12, 2010)

Hot Sheet: Top 20 DVDs (Sept 5-12, 2010)

TVO turns 40

Ontario pubcaster TVO is celebrating the big 4-0 this year, and it’s doing so with a host of activities along with the launch of an online public archive.

USA Networks renews Psych for sixth season

USA Network’s longest-running original series Psych is returning for a sixth season shoot in Vancouver.

Canadian Pickers picked by History Television

After making American Pickers a hit south of the border on History, Cineflex Productions has sold Canwest Global’s History Television the format to make a local junkyard scavenger series Canadian Pickers.

Marblemedia and 9 Story get Gnasty

MIPCOM is just a week away and two Toronto prodcos are heading to the market with a new animated comedy series based on the book by Goosebumps creator R.L. Stine.

Citytv launches iPad app

Rogers Media has launched an iPad video app for Citytv.com, the first by a Canadian broadcaster.

A&E’s Breakout Kings shoots at Pinewood

20th Century Fox TV has set up shop at Pinewood Toronto Studios to shoot the A&E procedural drama Breakout Kings through to the end of January 2011.

In Production: Nova Scotia (Sept. 27, 2010)

In Production: Nova Scotia (Sept. 27, 2010)

In Production: Ontario (Sept. 25, 2010)

In Production: Ontario (Sept. 25, 2010)

Allder out, Culbert in as EP of CBC’s Nature of Things

The CBC has made a major change to its long-running series The Nature of Things with David Suzuki, with news that Bob Culbert is coming on board as area executive producer, replacing Michael Allder.