Emmy winner Daryl Duke to be remembered with two awards for film and TV writers
Ninety-minute song and dance by the pop-punk superstar slotted for April
Fact-based programming has paid off again at CBC, which lured 1.5 million viewers to its head-scratcher special Test the Nation on Sunday
The Toronto documentary festival will open its 13th edition with In the Shadow of the Moon, a look back at the Apollo astronauts of the ’60s and ’70s
New lifestyle show from Cineflix looks to make dreams come true for Slice viewers
Former Sun TV executive takes on new media role at the company’s flagship Toronto paper
B.C.’s Broadbandtv has signed on to provide programming to Telus TV
Experimental filmmaker R. Bruce Elder is among the winners of the Governor General’s arts awards
Licensing firm m4e has picked up the German-language rights to the Nerd Corps series
The City of Toronto and Ontario Media Development Corporation recently trumpeted the arrival of The Incredible Hulk, the Marvel Studios blockbuster shooting for four months in Ontario starting this summer.
Diversity is frequently preached as a wise philosophy for forward-looking Canadian TV enterprises – and it is also the mandate of a proposed digital service with a licence application that is – controversially – being considered by the CRTC.
The trials and tribulations of HD production weighed on the minds of more than 150 independent producers, broadcasters, filmmakers, editors and business analysts who compared notes at the Playback Production Innovations Forum, held March 8 in Toronto.
Labor trouble with ACTRA, IATSE and the AQTIS scared Hollywood movies that were looking to shoot this spring away from much of Canada, though recent settlements and the arrival of big spenders like The Incredible Hulk (in Toronto) and The Mummy 3 (in Montreal) make the summer look more promising. So we ask:
* Gemini- and Emmy-winner Scott Moore, the former head of production at Rogers Sportsnet, is the new executive director of CBC Sports, replacing Nancy Lee.