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Telefilm up for some funny business
Telefilm Canada has named five teams to its Comedy Lab program, putting their feature projects into a three-month mentoring and workshop process.
Shaw picks up Score
The high-definition spin-off of The Score has been picked up by Shaw Cable and Shaw Direct, extending the sports channel’s reach into Western Canada. The Score HD, which simulcasts the programming seen on the standard channel, is now available in 6.6 million households, according to parent Score Media. It is also carried by Bell TV, Rogers Cable, Eastlink and Videotron, among others.
Teletoon tests pilots online
Teletoon is allowing viewers to comment on, and vote for, 10 original pilots for potential development into series. The pilots, targeted at males 18 to 34, were commissioned as part of an effort to find new programming for the cable channel’s evening and nighttime lineup. They will run simultaneously on sympatico.ca and thedetour.ca for 10 weeks. The eleventh week will feature the pilot of a series already in development. The episodes will also be available through iTunes.
Millar sees gold in Pan Am Games
Two months after paying just $12 for CHCH, the Channel Zero boss foresees an advertising windfall in 2015
World Series a winner for Sportsnet
Six-game bout between the Yankees and Phillies yields big eyeballs for sports cabler and Fox
Video: A first look at Red’s latest
Next-generation camera built for improved low-light shooting is ‘very comfortable at 500 ASA’
CRTC goes easy on CHEK
New licence lets Victoria station off the hook for priority programming and benefits package
Spliced! sells overseas
Nelvana sends cartoons to Playhouse Disney, Nickelodeon and Oz’s ABC
Ontario plans rebate for development
Province introducing stimulus for screen-based content
Nightingale, Steinberg shooting Car comedy
Toronto prodco enlists sitcom veteran for new TMN/MC series from scribes Walker and Romain
Arclight on board Wild Hunt
Los Angeles distributor picks up international rights to TIFF winner
Stone to sleuth for 9 Story’s Harriet
Production commences on live-action TV movie, with Wizards of Waverly Place thesp tapped as the lead
Gaming companies partner
Tribal Nova transfers game production division for equity stake in ODD1
Mirkopoulos eyes Chicago studio
Toronto studio head buys 48 acres on city’s west side for new film and TV production complex
Patron Media launches in B.C.
New company to act as unscripted development arm for Reunion Pictures
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