MIPCOM: Heavy-hitters offer tips on keeping Canadian TV fresh and alive
CANNES – Marriage and TV are very different, except when it comes to keeping both new and exciting. So when a trio of industry heavy-hitters gathered Tuesday at MIPCOM to […]
MIPCOM: Canadian productions increasingly an international effort
CANNES – With CTV giving Shaftesbury's The Listener a 13-hour fifth season order, the homegrown drama will now get to 65 episodes. You'd think that would be enough for Shaftesbury […]
MIPCOM: Hollywood casting a wider talent net, reeling in Canadians, others
CANNES – Abbie Cornish doesn't take kindly to be called a gold-digger. "She sets up services in Dawson City," the Australian Robocop star said of the female lead, Belinda Mulroney, […]
Group-based licensing causing programming shift; producers re-assessing options
TORONTO – Cineflix Media on July 25 surprised the production industry by saying it was restructuring as it pulls back from Canada to focus on the U.S. and U.K. markets. […]
Changes at the top, but Rogers Media isn’t reinventing the wheel
TORONTO – It will be a new era at Citytv when parent Rogers Media shortly completes a revamp of the network's creative brain trust. Malcolm Dunlop, executive vice-president of TV […]
NHL Lockout: Broadcasters, advertisers feeling the pinch as season melts away
TORONTO – In hockey-mad Canada, the continuing NHL lockout has turned the pro league toxic with fed-up hockey fans. But what about broadcasters and NHL sponsors now facing cancelled TV […]
Rogers ponders eastern broadcast solutions while shooting new show
SEED, THE NEW CITYV SITCOM now shooting in Halifax, will debut in Atlantic Canada, as across the country, early in 2013. Citytv just won’t simsub the sperm donor comedy in […]
MIPCOM 2012: Is OTT just another video window, or a real game-changer?
CANNES – As Kevin Spacey descended on MIPCOM this week to promote Netflix's ballyhooed original series The House of Cards, onlookers were asking whether the video streaming giant and other […]
MIPCOM 2012: Bell’s mobile video growing faster than Hulu, says Oosterman
CANNES – No need to fret about Hulu not being available in Canada, Wade Oosterman, chief brand officer at Bell Canada, told MIPCOM delegates on Tuesday in Cannes. “We’re a […]
MIPCOM 2012: Peladeau, producers’ points of view clash in Cannes
CANNES – Pierre Karl Péladeau went off script on Monday at MIPCOM to urge Ottawa and the CRTC to curb online regulations for broadcasters up against competition from Netflix and […]