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... Continue Reading
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 grows... Continue Reading
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... Continue Reading
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 is... Continue Reading
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... Continue Reading
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, told... Continue Reading
Modernized OMNI on the way, tooTORONTO – Watch this (digital) space.That's the word from Colette Watson, senior vice president of television and broadcast operations at Rogers Media, who told Cartt.ca... Continue Reading
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... Continue Reading
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... Continue Reading
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 the... Continue Reading