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CTV asks fans to ‘Degrassify Yourself’
The net is pushing the teen show’s seventh season with some new user-generated content and mash-up elements online
Corus launches infomercial channel
It slices! It dices! It’s EyesOnTV, now beaming half-hour product demos into more than half a million households in Alberta and B.C.
CTV sets dates for Jericho, Oprah’s The Big Give
The post-apocalyptic series fans refused to give up returns on Feb. 16, followed by the Big O’s first primetime reality show in March
Promises and Devil lead Genie noms
Russian mobsters and the horrors of Rwanda played well with the Academy, which has handed 12 nods each to David Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises and Roger Spottiswoode’s Shake Hands with the Devil
Rambo trounces Spartans
The comedy spoof ranked number one south of the border, but Rambo‘s $2-million take at the domestic box office shows the Stallone vehicle is still popular with Canadians
BBC picks up CBC leadership series
Distraction brokers deal for The Next Great Prime Minister with the Beeb. Producers in Italy, Spain and Netherlands also sign on
ReelTime hooks Nelvana content
Nevada-based netcaster picks up VOD rights to titles including Ned’s Newt and Jacob Two-Two
9 Story Entertainment sells Village
Outlets in Brazil, Singapore and Israel have picked up the 30-minute special If the World Were a Village
B.C. tax breaks to match Ontario
Projects from within the province will get a 35% credit, with 18% for everyone else, under new tax breaks put forth by the B.C. Liberals
Networks try again with fee-for-carriage
And this time, the price has gone up. In a joint submission to Gatineau, CTVgm and Canwest are seeking as much as 70 cents per subscriber per channel from the cable companies
Monster Slayer makes deal at Slamdance
Oddball horror-comedy from Ottawa signs with Anchor Bay Entertainment at close of Park City festival
SAG honors Christie
Away from Her‘s leading lady bags yet another award for her portrayal as an Alzheimer’s sufferer in Sarah Polley’s debut feature
Nightingale teams with Mohan
Blood Ties producer to write and exec produce new series, Bodies and Soul, with company chief Debbie Nightingale
Brown Bag Films comes to Canada
Toronto office of Irish toon house opens with Alliance vet Alan Gregg in charge of developing film and TV
Decode full of Adrenaline
The distribution wing of DHX Media has picked up the world TV rights to marblemedia’s youth-aimed factual entertainment The Adrenaline Project
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