Cancelled in-house shows reveal CBC, Bell Media strategy shifts
TORONTO – Bell Media set to cancel Discovery's Daily Planet next week after 23 seasons and Space's Innerspace after nine cycles, and the CBC ending its daytime lifestyle series The […]
How the CBC joined TV’s golden age with Netflix
HEATHER CONWAY, CBC EXECUTIVE vice-president, English Services, likes drinking from the Netflix co-production tap. The pubcaster hit ratings gold with high-profile Netflix collaborations like Alias Grace and Anne as it […]
System bypass: AMC Sublicenses McMafia to Amazon Prime for exclusive in Canada; and Britbox is coming
SEATTLE – Amazon Prime Video in late September first announced it had picked up the BBC and AMC crime drama McMafia for 200 territories, excluding the U.S. and Canada, where […]
MIPCOM 2017: Why it’s time Canadians got on board the global drama gold rush
CANNES – Go worldwide, young man and woman. That's the message out of MIPCOM where the trend towards international funding of TV dramas featuring partners and talent beyond Canadian shores […]
MIPCOM: Netflix’s Canadian strategy? Just follow the money, to kids
CANNES – Heritage minister Mélanie Joly in late September surprised the industry by unveiling a $500-million agreement with Netflix to make Canadian content that was light on deal-points, including how […]
OTT movie streamer Filmatique expanding to Canada
FILMATIQUE, A U.S.-BASED video streaming service targeting fans of auteur movies, is expanding to Canada as a first step in its international roll-out. Lorenzo Fiuzzi, co-founder of the movie-themed SVOD, […]
Upfronts 2017: Rogers Media set to get back into streaming TV after Shomi
Modernized OMNI on the way, too TORONTO – Watch this (digital) space. That's the word from Colette Watson, senior vice president of television and broadcast operations at Rogers Media, who […]
Report: As Netflix shifts work to L.A., Hollywood film location shoots surge in Canada
THE DECISION BY NETFLIX to divert much more production to Los Angeles, despite more generous and uncapped tax credits on offer in Canada and elsewhere outside California, has spooked some […]
CMPA Prime Time: Talking points take centre stage; Can Cancon still thrive?
OTTAWA – As the CMPA’s Prime Time conference debated the economics behind who’s making and buying content in a rapidly-changing global media business, attention turned Thursday to 6 out of […]
Amazon Video coming to Canada December 1st, says Bell’s Turcke
GATINEAU – The long-anticipated expansion of Amazon Prime Video into Canada could happen as early as December 1. At least Mary Ann Turcke, Bell Media president, believes it, having told […]