Are those U.S. Embassy officials in Ottawa who told Washington that Little Mosque on the Prairie and The Border offered negative stereotypes of Americans just humorless?
Sean Connolly, CEO of Toronto-based prodco Gorilla Media, says his team was interested in creating something within the fish-out-of-water format, as seen in recent factual entertainment hits such as Undercover Boss and Secret Millionaire.
Unveiled at the pubcaster’s upfront yesterday, the Ceeb is embarking on a cross-platform campaign to get Canadians to live healthier
WIFT Toronto has announced that executive director Sadia Zaman is stepping down in the new year to join the CBC in the newly created role of director, CBC Centres.
Giving Voice: Filmmakers Working with Filmmakers is the newest program from The Documentary Organization of Canada, funded by CBC’s digichannel documentary.
The GM of media sales and marketing and executive director of CBC Sports has resigned after three years with the pubcaster.
Guns was the big winner at the 25th Gemini Awards on Wednesday night, as the CBC drama mini-series snagged five trophies.
Having done big numbers with ABC’s Dancing With The Stars, CTV has acquired the alphabet channel’s upcoming Skating With the Stars competition series.
Having steadied the ship after last year’s job and programming cuts, CBC president Hubert Lacroix signaled a renewed focus on Canadian, regional and digital content as the public broadcaster enters still-choppier waters to 2015.
Recent comments by former CBC president Robert Rabinovitch about the tenuous nature of the Ceeb’s future certainly stirred the hornet’s nest.
Production has started in the Canadian arctic on the HD climate change documentary The Polar Explorer from Polar Cap Productions for the iChannel specialty channel.
Former CBC president Robert Rabinovitch on Thursday raised a question over the future of the public broadcaster that the current CBC leadership agrees requires immediate attention.