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CBC addresses PNI budget, discoverability concerns
The pubcaster responded to more than a week of interventions from organizations such as the CMPA and APTN to close out the virtual broadcast licence renewal hearing with the CRTC.
CBC cancels Trickster
Updated: The news comes less than two months after reports revealed doubt over the series director and co-creator’s Indigenous identity, casting uncertainty over the status of its early renewal.
Obsidian Theatre, CBC reveal talent for 21 Black Futures project
Set to debut on CBC Gem next month, the anthology of 21 filmed monodramas features 21 playwrights, 21 directors and 21 actors.
CAB argues against CBC’s ‘market-driven’ licence proposal
The Canadian Association of Broadcasters raises the red flag on CBC becoming too competitive with private broadcasters, urging the CRTC to hold the public broadcaster to its expenditure and local programming requirements.
CBC licence renewal hearing: execs talk commissioning strategies, digital transition
After examining the “40,000-foot view” earlier in the hearing, the CRTC drilled down into the finer aspects of its programming plans in the upcoming five-year licence term.
Transparency issues top of mind as CBC broadcast licence hearing gets underway
The CRTC examined what a digital regulatory framework will look like for CBC as they ask for flexibility in their programming requirements.
Top-rated Canadian TV of 2020
Breakout dramas, final-season runs, long-running favourites and more: which series topped the TV charts in 2020?
CBC sets winter 2021 lineup
New titles on the schedule include Humour Resources, Pretty Hard Cases, Anyone’s Game and Arctic Vets.
Warner Bros. Unscripted Television options CBC Gem original Farm Crime
News of the format deal comes as production wraps on its pandemic-disrupted sophomore season.
Scripted Series of the Year 2020: Trickster
How the coming-of-age drama from Streel Films and Sienna Films has created a new narrative around Indigenous storytelling and become a red-hot commodity in an international marketplace hungry for new voices.
CBC, BET+ commission The Porter
Annmarie Morais and Marsha Greene are showrunners on the Sienna Films and Inferno Pictures-produced drama about a group of railway workers who unite to form the world’s first Black union.
CBC’s branded content division under the microscope as 500 sign open letter
Current and former staffers are urging the pubcaster to eliminate its paid-content division, Tandem, dubbing its output as “advertising that pretends to be news.”
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