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New program for new media
Telefilm Canada and the CFTPA are collaborating on a new training program designed to teach the ins and outs of digital content creation. The Telefilm New Media Producers’ Program will give new media producers the opportunity to develop their technical, administrative and creative skills. The program will feature one-on-one mentoring from CFTPA members.
Blades shines with 1.9 million
CBC scored impressive numbers for fresh and returning fall series, but it was the new reality Battle of the Blades that eclipsed all debuts with an eye-popping 1.9 million viewers for its premiere on Oct. 4. The number is the second highest for a CBC series premiere since Little Mosque on the Prairie netted two million viewers back in 2007. Audiences for the 90-minute episode of Blades at 8 p.m. peaked at 2.4 million. (All numbers 2+.)
Rogers buys into Eisner studio
Minority stake in Vuguru comes with Canuck rights to web content — to be funneled through web, mobile and cable VOD
Reitman set for honors, jury duty at Whistler
Chloe producer to take lifetime achievement prize and lead Borsos jury
De père en flic plays for politicos
Quebec comedy screens in Ottawa upon nearing $11 million line at the box office
Dance Canada still hot
Reality competition ends second season on a high note with 1.7 million viewers for CTV. The Guard suffers a setback
Skogland on top at DGCs
Directors cheer Fifty Dead Men Walking and longtime Cronenberg collaborator Carol Spier at annual awards. Holly Dale wins for Flashpoint
Earnings sag at Shaw
CEO speaks of cautious expansion into mobile phones, while mending fences with Rogers
Black Beauty rides again, in Australia
Fremantle plans to coproduce a reboot of the 1970s series, while linking with Italy on two primetime shows
New deal for gamemakers
Ontario looking to lure large video game developers with sweetened tax break
Profits, subscribers up at Corus
Arrival of Viva and HBO Canada goose year-end numbers, even as ad revenue dries up at specialty channels and on radio
IFC claims Cairo
Ruba Nadda’s film follows long-standing supply line into U.S.
Releases roundup
Carmody sees Amelia take off, while Maple puts yet another Saw against Astro Boy and E1’s The September Issue
In other news…
Telefilm names its comedy teams, Rogers picks up seven Star channels, and Xavier Dolan is $20,000 richer
Sweeping changes at CBC News
National expands to weekends, flanked by local and online news. Work to be routed through all-in-one newsroom, more than 1,000 staffers shuffled
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