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Nominees for best dramatic series
Bliss III (Galafilm Productions, Back Alley Film Productions – Showcase)
Two more years?
Will he stay or will he go? With just days left to go until his five-year contract runs out, the future of CBC president Robert Rabinovitch remains unclear – with, on one side, a torrent of reports and rumors suggesting that his term is about to be extended into 2006 but, on the other, no official word coming from the Ceeb or Ottawa.
Nouveau cinema wraps
The 33rd Montreal Festival of Nouveau Cinema, which screened more than 200 titles from 42 countries, wrapped after 10 days on Oct. 24 with the premiere of Memoires affectives (Looking for Alexander) from Quebec director Francis Leclerc.
The New VI gets older
Vancouver: The New VI is looking a lot like the old CH. After laying off 29 full- and part-time employees on July 7, CHUM’s struggling Victoria station has recently hired three senior journalists from the market-leading CH Victoria, owned by CanWest MediaWorks, and is now shooting for an older audience.
Documentary, news & sports: Voting changes don’t reduce CBC dominance
For years, CBC has raked in far more hardware at the Gemini Documentary, News & Sports Gala than its private broadcaster counterparts. That shouldn’t come at all as a surprise – the Ceeb produces the biggest volume of Canadian programming and has long excelled in news, doc and sports shows.
New digis from Telelatino, PrideVision
TLN Telelatino and PrideVision are branching out with new digital channels for their respective core audiences.
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Burns in Calgary
Nominees for best actor in a continuing leading dramatic role
Nicholas Campbell – Da Vinci’s Inquest
Nominees for best actress in a continuing leading dramatic role
Martha Burns – Slings & Arrows
South African tax breaks lure Canucks
Inner City Films is going back to South Africa, and has tapped Sudz Sutherland (Love, Sex and Eating the Bones) and Alyson Feltes (Traders) to write 13 scripts for season one of JOZI-H, a high-end medical drama in the works at the Toronto company and copro partner Morula Pictures of Johannesburg for CBC – a project that could signal a new wave of coproductions between that country and Canucks.
CBC daytime finalists to six
The six finalists for CBC’s daytime drama project include pitches from some of Canada’s most prolific production companies, including two from Atlantic Canada, one from Vancouver and three from Toronto.
Nominees for best actor in a dramatic program or miniseries
Bayo Akinfemi – Human Cargo
The seven percent solution
Peter Rowe is a veteran film & TV director. Rowe’s history of the Canadian film industry, Popcorn with Maple Syrup: Film in Canada from Eh to Zed, airs on CBC Thursday, Nov. 18 at 8 p.m.
A silver lining in a soaring loonie
Here’s the bad news. With the Canadian dollar inching its way closer to parity with the American dollar, there’s a sense among industry stakeholders that 2005 could end up worse than 2004 in terms of total production volumes.
Nominees for best actress in a dramatic program or miniseries
Diane D’Aquila – Elizabeth Rex
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