Super Écran

Production underway on CTV’s Cardinal

The six-part drama series is set to shoot in four locations throughout Ontario. (Series leads Billy Campbell and Karine Vanasse pictured.)

Versailles renewed for season 2

With the first season of the Canada/France copro set to hit the airwaves next month, the show has been given a season two greenlight.

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Incendo shooting The Good Sister in Montreal

Montreal filmmaker Philippe Gagnon is directing the TV movie, which will be broadcast in Canada and the U.S. in 2014.

Incendo starts shooting Time of Death in Montreal

The pay TV movie stars Kathleen Robertson (pictured) as a FBI agent out to solve a murder before tragedy befalls the next victim.

Canadian internet ad spending will eclipse TV ad spending by 2016: report

Growth of spending on TV is predicted to climb just 4% annually in the 2012 to 2016 period, according to a Canadian Marketing Association-commissioned study.

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Incendo’s The Perfect Surrogate in production in Montreal

The made-for-TV movie, starring Mia Kirschner, Rachel Blanchard and David Julian Hirsch, shoots through to June 21.

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Incendo shooting Willed to Kill, prepping The Perfect Surrogate in Montreal

Jean Bureau and Stephen Greenberg’s production shop is shooting its 50th TV movie, starring Sarah Jane Morris, ahead of a Lifetime telefilm to be directed by Adrian Wills shooting in June.

Astral and Corus see ad and subscriber growth

An improving economy continues to lift advertising and subscriber growth at Canadian specialty and pay TV operators.

The Kennedys goes international

All’s well that ends well: Muse Distribution International has secured 50 foreign sales for its controversial mini-series The Kennedys.

CRTC defends Super-Ecran’s monopoly against Quebecor Media bid

Astral Media’s Super Ecran pay television channel will not face competition in the French-language market from TVA Group’s proposed pay TV movie channel Cine-TVA service, the CRTC ruled Friday.

Gillis cast for Stealing Paradise

Manitoba’s Tammy Gillis (Endgame, Shattered) has been cast opposite Rachael Leigh Cook in Stealing Paradise, a thriller set for a 2011 release. The film will air on The Movie Network, Movie Central and Super Ecran.

Incendo starts Stealing Paradise

Montreal’s Incendo has begun principle photography on Stealing Paradise, the company’s fifth TV movie of 2010.