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Deluxe Vancouver a done deal
Canadian Heritage gives okay to Deluxe Entertainment’s acquisition of Rainmaker’s post and FX ops, giving the post giant a much-needed presence on the West Coast
Studios face sluggish pilot season
Service work continues to slow in Toronto and Vancouver as the WGA strike takes a bite out of the TV pilot season. TFS boss Ferguson predicts ‘quiet’ season
Strong start for CBC’s mid-season
The Border drew 710,000 viewers to its Monday night debut, the first of several cards the network is playing this week in a bid to trump its strike-addled competitors
Could Oscars, upfronts be next to tank?
The cancellation of the Golden Globes this week has driven home the realization that the ongoing writers strike could jeopardize the big one — next month’s Academy Awards — and even threaten this spring’s upfront presentations
Game deal for Jimmy
Breakthrough inks a two-game development deal with SilverBirch for its upcoming animated series
Santa came early for CanWest
Just as Playback staff members were wrapping up for another annum – some with visions of sugarplums dancing in their heads – came word that the CRTC had approved the acquisition of Alliance Atlantis Communications’ specialty channels by CanWest Global and Goldman Sachs, with few additional requirements to be met.
Canadian cinema takes a step back in 2007
2007 was another year of disappointment for the Canadian film industry.
A closer look at King Richard
There are some senior executives in this business whose intelligence you might be inclined to question. I won’t name anyone; I’m sure one or two spring to mind. But I betcha CBC topper Richard Stursberg is not one of them.
CBC, CTV finally jump on iTunes bandwagon
Two of the country’s big three broadcasters have found a home on iTunes, which has added programming from CBC, CTV and its partners to the Canadian version of the online music store – offering downloadable versions of Little Mosque on the Prairie, Corner Gas and South Park, among others.
Meet Goldman Sachs
When the CRTC gave the green light on Dec. 20 to the purchase of Alliance Atlantis Communications by CanWest Global Communications and New York-based investment firm GS Capital Partners, an affiliate of Goldman Sachs & Co., it was only the latest example in a buying spree of Canadian businesses involving foreign private-equity firms, with media companies prominent on their shopping lists.
Done deal: CanWest gets green light from Gatineau
OTTAWA-GATINEAU: The CRTC gave CanWest Global Communications an early Christmas present Dec. 20, finding no problems with the foreign investment at play in approving the broadcaster’s $2.3-billion acquisition of Alliance Atlantis Communications. But less than an hour after the CRTC released its decision, the unions were talking appeal.
Charge premium prices for U.S. networks
Barry Kiefl is the president of Canadian Media Research, based in Ottawa
Ontario upping tax credits to 35% for locals, 25% for Hollywood
Santa dropped in early for Ontario’s beleaguered film and TV production sector with news that Queen’s Park is to hike tax credits for foreign and local producers shooting in the province over the next three years.
Producers rattled by TQS troubles
MONTREAL: Quebec producers are lamenting the possible demise of TQS, the black sheep of the province’s three networks that draws audiences to its homegrown programming that English-Canadian TV makers would die for.
Mentor and producer Gulkin bows out
Harry Gulkin was understandably reflective as he faced retirement from his position at SODEC, the Quebec government’s film-funding body.
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