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Green TV in January
With environmental issues making front-page news and Al Gore winning the Nobel Prize, does the ‘G’ in HGTV now stand for green?
Holmes on Homes is HGTV’s number one
Google Mike Holmes and the first thing that pops up is a paid advert for a plumber tagged ‘Contractor of Mike Holmes.’
HGTV’s top-rated shows
TOP 10 SHOWS ON HGTV
Deluxe moving into Filmport
Toronto megastudio signs its first permanent tenant, and will move the post house into a new facility, taking up 80,000 square feet right by the front gates
Continent coming to English Canada
After two weeks and $600,000, Seville is betting there’s a market for Jean Lemire’s adventure doc Le Dernier Continent in the rest of Canada. Now all it needs is a narrator
Grace Cianciotta 1964-2008
Film marketing veteran dies after short battle with breast cancer
New Asia prize at Banff
TV festival looking for programs from and about Asia, as it teams up with Japan’s NHK to offer $20,000 award
Coolroom to carry Nelvana titles
U.K. digicaster will put some 650 hours online for download, including Babar and Rupert
They’re here, they’re Queer…
…they’re online. Showcase is putting the first three seasons of Queer as Folk and the new run of The L Word on its site for free
Hockey, aliens cash in at Telefilm
The feds took a shine to sci-fi and shinny in their latest round of feature funding, but there were still a few bucks left for Gary Yates and his producers to shoot the stunt-heavy crime story High Life
CBC puts up $20,000 for online
The network, BC Film and New Media BC are taking pitches from producers for interactive programming and tools for web
CBC swamped by paperwork
People are apparently far more curious about CBC than other Crown corporations, and have recently bombarded it with requests under the Access to Information Act
Teletoon Retro tops digichannels
The nostalgia-driven cartoon channel has chalked up over four million subscribers, more than double that of other digitals, according to the CRTC
Sniper and ESP series set for CTV
The network has picked up two Canadian series that, ahem, each wear a different uniform. Mustos attached to Sniper project
CTV goes Mad
The network has picked up AMC’s critical favorite Mad Men, with plans to put it on air, and perhaps on cable, for mid-season
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