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Video Innovations: ITV: exercise in frustration
The jury is still out on whether the millions being spent on the development of interactive television will, in retrospect, prove a healthy investment. itv, long on the futurists’ lists of just-around-the-corner technology, has proven an exercise in frustration over the…
Openings: 1. The Silences of the Palace; 2. The Promise
The Silences of the Palace…
Canada in London
while the London Programme Market was a good one for sellers, buyers say there was less new product on offer at this year’s event, held Nov. 13-15 at Le Meridian….
CBC cuts VPs
While the greater part of cbc president Perrin Beatty’s proposed restructuring plans for the network have yet to be approved by the board of directors, Beatty revealed a senior-level shuffle to his staff in a memo Nov. 14, announcing four vp…
BCFIP sidelined by `Bingogate’ fiasco
Vancouver: A bid by b.c. filmmakers for a provincial film investment program has been sidelined by a number of events, including Bingogate, the financial scandal currently rocking the province’s ndp government that forced b.c. Premier Mike Harcourt’s resignation last week….
News Brief: Change at Alliance
Suzan Ayscough, vp Alliance Productions, left the company Nov. 17 to become director of communications at Telefilm Canada….
Video Innovations: Virtual sets biggest TV breakthrough since chromakey
Montreal: Remember the weather guy who flipped the chalk, or his near descendant with the magnetic sunshine indicators?…
Editorial: A sad tale
Imagine if Humpty Dumpty, in advance of taking that fatal fall, were held in a perpetual state of vulnerability by a team of scrutineers (the king’s men), assessing his fragile shell and contemplating how impossible it would be to put him…
Video Innovations: Waiting for widescreen HD
Like kids at a high school dance, broadcasters and product manufacturers are still waiting to see who, if anyone, will be first out on the floor when it comes to high-definition widescreen tv….
Studios raise a stink over T.O. garbage facility
When Toronto City Council met early this month to discuss, among other things, the removal of the McLeary Park garbage transfer station that has so irked studio owners in the district, the motions to move the garbage depot were rejected. But…
Numbers: The Magic Hour
CBC’s This Hour Has 22 Minutes is taking a respectable share of all 30 of them in the 9 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. slot Monday nights….
Asian TV to beam into U.S.
While crtc hearings on direct-to-home service continue, the Asian Television Network is seizing the opportunity to begin broadcasting into the u.s. on the Connecticut-based AlphaStar dth service….
Word on the Street: Cinematographers get new rep shops
Competition is heating up for cinematographer representation with two new players on the scene challenging Sesler & Company. Karen Martin at KM Represents opened the dop doors at the beginning of November on the heels of Denis Kane and Kane Representation,…
LIAA names winners
The London International Advertising Awards were presented to 139 winners in television/cinema, radio, print and package design categories Nov. 13….
Commercial Directions: Walton busy in the West
At Imported Artists, director Richard D’Alessio will be helming a day for Bell through Leo Burnett at the end of November. Third Floor’s Gillian McCarthy will be editing and Paul Sarossy will be behind the camera….
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