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In Brief: How Pyewacket benefited pocketbooks
Plus: Canada-Israel digi media projects receive development and production coin, Scott White joins CAVCO and more.
Deals: CraveTV, Riddle Films, TFO
Starz original Counterpart is heading to the Bell Media-owned streamer, plus more deals.
Shaftesbury, Cineplex expand partnership
The Murdoch Mysteries holiday special will debut on cinema screens in 11 cities across the country ahead of its CBC debut.
Quebecor Fund awards $2.3M across nine projects
Roughly $1.3 million was distributed through its convergent stream, including an interactive component for season six of the reality series La Voix.
Hochelaga does not advance in Oscar race
The Max Films-produced feature from director Francois Girard didn’t make the short list for best foreign-language picture.
Breaking barriers: Diversity needs ‘margin for failure’
In part two of Playback‘s roundtable, execs talk international biases against diverse casting, the need for a higher risk tolerance and the growing demand for representation.
A safer workplace manifesto
The industry has a problem. It’s time to address it. Here’s how we can start.
CMF awards $4.5M across nine digital media projects
Relish Interactive and Felix & Paul Studios each netted $1.2 million in the latest round of the funder’s commercial projects pilot program.
Britbox SVOD coming to Canada
The British TV streamer from BBC Worldwide and ITV is set to launch in early 2018.
Photo gallery: DOC Institute Honours 2017
The documentary organization feted the year’s best filmmakers and projects at Toronto’s Gladstone Hotel.
Hot Sheet: Digital Demand Dec. 5 to 11, 2017
Stranger Things is at #1, with Star Trek: Discovery at #2 and Marvel’s The Punisher at #3.
Sci-fi drama Plan B acquired in format deal
German prodco Pantaleon Films picked up the remake rights to the series from Montreal’s KOTV.
Network Media Group names new exec chairman
Frank Anderson will lead the board of the Vancouver-based company, which recently produced feature-length doc I Am Heath Ledger for Spike TV and TMN.
eOne signs first-look deal with King Bee Productions
The deal to develop and produce scripted TV marks the global studio’s latest partnership with high-profile creative talent.
Hot Sheet: Top 30 TV programs, Nov. 27 to Dec. 3, 2017
The Indian Detective is at #5, with Rick Mercer Report at #22 and Vikings at #27.
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