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Fox, CTV fall in with Gravity
CTV is going into space with Fox TV Studios, the BBC and Germany’s ProSieben to launch the big-budget action-adventure drama Defying Gravity.
Slow build to La Traverse’s breakout success
Veteran Canadian producer Anne Marie La Traverse says her career has been a slow build to the breakout success of Flashpoint. And the key, she insists, was finally learning to go with her gut when it came to building a successful TV franchise.
Mustos wanted to get ‘closer to the clay’
The odds had been right for some time that Bill Mustos would one day achieve breakout success with a primetime drama.
Flashpoint producers part of CTV family
The fruition of a hit primetime drama series is buoyed by a strong relationship between the broadcaster and creative team, says Susanne Boyce, who stresses that putting creative before business is key to the success of Flashpoint and other CTV series.
CBS involvement a ‘no-brainer’
They say imitation is the best form of flattery. And as a testament to the success of Flashpoint, the Canuck drama series is not only the talk of the town south of the border – it’s the series American producers are aiming to replicate.
Classic crime formula seals international deals
Flashpoint’s international recipe for success is a mix of classic ingredients and perfect timing, according to Carrie Stein, CEO of Los Angeles-based Alchemy Television, which handles the series’ foreign sales with the Munich-based Tele München Group.
Fox drops Nelvana cartoon
The Nelvana cartoon series Di-Gata Defenders will get the hook on Fox’s…
Three strikes on A channels
The A network is set to lose three shows from its primetime schedule as sophomore dramas…
Grey Cup magical for RDS
RDS emerged the big winner of the 2008 Grey Cup, achieving its highest audiences ever for a football broadcast though, on the English side…
Amsterdam sees Wintonick’s latest
Documentarian and good-will ambassador Peter Wintonick struck a typically graceful chord for international relations on…
Doc on docs bows at doc fest
Dispelling fears that it would be too ‘inside’ the genre, the blessedly jargon-free feature Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary drew an enthusiastic…
Emmy snubs Next PM
A controversial Dutch reality beat out Canada’s only contender at the International Emmys in New York…
New perspective at queer festival
A master class led by bad boy Bruce LaBruce, and docs about Patti Smith and Vanity Fair photographer Annie Leibovitz…
Belts tightening at CBC
Fending off a $45-million budget shortfall and the impending global recession, CBC is putting a freeze on…
Four jobs eliminated at NFB
The new director general of the NFB’s French program Monique Simard says she wants to ‘put the most money possible…
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