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Clarification
In the Nov. 22, issue of Playback, Frantic Films CEO and executive producer Jamie Brown was quoted saying ‘in hindsight it makes sense’ that Global TV fired Loren Mawhinney and Doug Hoover following the net’s struggles over the last two years. In the full context of the quote, Brown used a corporate analogy to illustrate that when a stock performs poorly, managers often take the fall even if it is not their fault. He was not insinuating that the fault lies with either Mawhinney or Hoover.
Could the last one out kindly turn off the lights?
Ken Ferguson is president of Toronto Film Studios and one of the leading advocates for film and TV production in Ontario. TFS was selected by TEDCO, a city-owned agency, to build the new Film/Media Complex in Toronto’s Port Lands, due to open in 2006.
Clarkson’s the right choice
OK. So it wasn’t Slawko Klymkiw. But it’s not like anyone else crystal-balled who the new executive director of Telefilm was going to be.
AP expands into series
Toronto: It’s not every day you see a bear trying to have sex with a cheetah – on her desk. And, until recently, a pack of randy, anthropomorphized cartoon animals was probably the last sort of thing you’d expect to see from Toronto’s Associated Producers – a prodco that made its name in the ’90s by turning out high-end documentaries on such not-at-all sexy subjects as biblical history (The Exodus Decoded) and killer viruses (The Plague Monkeys).
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Creature comforts
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Stone Cold wraps in Halifax
Radio signals birth of CHUM
When Allan Waters bought Toronto’s CHUM-AM radio station in 1954, it was a money-losing 1,000-watt sun-up-to-sundown operation serving mainly as a marketing tool for its owner, pharmaceutical manufacturer Jack Q’Part. Waters was a salesman for Part at the time, and though he was unfamiliar with the radio business, his desire to run his own company overrode any misgivings he may have had.
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That ’70s Heist
CHUM’s diversity & media literacy
Denise Donlon joined CHUM in 1985 as a host/producer for MuchMusic. She moved up the ranks to the role of VP and GM of Much in 1997, and helped launch MuchMoreMusic the following year. She left in 2000 for the post of president of Sony Music Canada, which she recently departed after Sony’s merger with BMG Canada.
Sarossy & Egoyan bring Truth to light
The director/DOP team of Atom Egoyan and Paul Sarossy are back together again, on a bigger scale than ever, with Where the Truth Lies (aka Somebody Loves You). Boasting an A-list cast and $30-million budget, Truth, having wrapped in early November, is the seventh feature for the frequent collaborators.
CHUM specialties, 25 years later
Aug. 31, 1984: MuchMusic is launched on Canadian cable. Teenagers sit glued to their TVs, watching an entirely new form of television. But they’re not the only ones whose lives are being changed – launching Much vaults CHUM Television from the local Toronto stage to a national presence.
Scenery worth chewing at Godiva’s
In the restaurant business, there is ‘front of house’ – the dining room, which is all the glam and ambiance and service – and the ‘back of house’ – the kitchen, which is all heat and toil and ego.
Terminal City helps keep Victoria vital
Vancouver: Terminal City, a $12.5-million miniseries in production in Victoria until mid-February, may be about the ravages of breast cancer, but it proves the B.C. capital has a lot of life yet as a television Mecca – especially as the loonie rises against the U.S. greenback.
Barenaked on Speakers Corner
CHUM touts Speakers Corner as ‘the original reality show.’ Launched by Citytv Toronto in 1990, the concept was simple but revolutionary: anybody passing by the CHUMCity Building could enter a video booth and record a brief message. City producers would choose the best ones and air them back-to-back on the weekly Speakers Corner program.
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