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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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 told…
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THE DECISION BY NETFLIX to divert much more production to Los Angeles, despite more generous and uncapped tax credits on offer in Canada…
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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…
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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…
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