✖
Special Report: NATPE ’96: Our kids’ series big game in the U.S.
Canuck kids’ shows, ya gotta love ’em. Grown in the shade of the u.s. limelight, new icons the likes of Dudley the Dragon have emerged to steal some of the pbs spotlight – not to mention extensive press coverage when the…
Numbers: Jake off to a good start; Air Farce enters ’96 with a bang
Launched smack in the middle of Christmas special mayhem, Jake and the Kid held its own in December with a 2.8 average viewing audience over all demographics for the Dec. 23 episode, just slightly behind the 3.4 average for the premiere…
Editorial: Big dividends
The production success story of Manitoba and Saskatchewan can be measured in dollar terms (see Special Report p. 13), but those involved in the business and its nurturing are most concerned that the eggs in their baskets include increasing foreign investment…
Letters: CAB not seeking ‘extra gov’t. money’
In our view, your headline on coverage of the recent Canadian Association of Broadcasters’ convention, ‘cab seeks access to gov’t funds’ (Nov. 6, 1995, p. 1), misrepresents recent initiatives proposed by private broadcasters. In this otherwise excellent article, the title line…
News Brief: BC Film Funding
British Columbia Film has announced the first seven projects to receive development funding under its new applied support program. The program, launched last fall, evaluated a total of 45 applications this quarter, from dramatic, documentary and animated films to tv projects….
For The Record
– Commercial animation company RF Fly Films is expanding its Oakville, Ont., offices to make way for new animators and recently added producer Eva Budai, who will oversee the company’s day-to-day operations and client service, to its roster….
Special Report: NATPE ’96: Canadians attending NATPE
Following is a listing of Canadian companies attending natpe and a selection of the products they will be bringing….
Word on the Street: Chilly temperature at Fahrenheit
No shortage of cooler talk on both sides of the border as speculation percolates that Steve Chase may have split with his u.s. production house, Fahrenheit Films….
Commercial Directions: N.Y. job casts three at LTB
LTB Productions has landed a big project through Posnick & Kolker of New York City which will involve three different directing teams. Director Christopher Gentile will handle three shoot days, director/dop CB Harding takes on a prelight and two shoot days,…
Jet producer turns to directing
Montreal: He’d done both sides of the street, but the time had come for Sylvain Archambault to make a choice….
Quebec Scene: Shbib targets teen television
Montreal: Prolific low-budget filmmaker Bashar Shbib is shooting his first tv series, The Odd Squad, a young teen drama from newly formed Oneira Television, written mainly by teens from Montreal’s f.a.c…
Ontario Scene: ‘Serious reshuffling going on’ at Sullivan Entertainment
Sullivan Entertainment has started off 1996 with a bang….
Watching TV: Exhibit chronicles TV in culture
Ernest J. Dick is currently corporate archivist for the cbc. In addition to his experience in film television archiving, Dick is past-president of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, and also has a longtime career in sound to round out his…
Eye On Asia: Malaysia: the next Asian tiger?
While so much attention has been deposited at the media door of Japanese and Chinese ventures, there are several less appreciated Asian venues which may warrant a step across the electronic threshold. One of these is Malaysia, a country of 17…
Gray Matter in the game – scar
Beginning Jan. 22, the Global Television studios in Toronto will be hosting a shoot for s.c.a.r., not a plastic surgery expose or an auto race, but the live-action portion of a new video game from Oakville, Ont.-based Gray Matter….
The definitive CDN broadcast and production resource.Over 5,000 company listings!
