TORONTO – Canadian television and digital media production company Media Headquarters has licensed its studio competition format Canada’s Smartest Person to Spanish production company Globomedia.
Globomedia is producing a 10-part…
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TORONTO – Senior lawyer and public policy professional Deborah Smith-Webber has joined Hall Webber LLP as the Toronto entertainment law firm looks to expand its practice.
Smith-Webber most recently served…
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MONTREAL – TVA has sold a production licence for its original television dance competition Révolution in Lithuania.
Developed jointly by Quebecor Content and Montreal-based producer Groupe Fair-Play, Révolution features solo, duet…
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MONTREAL — Quebecor’s TVA is so fed up with how its all-sports channel is being treated by Bell that an executive confirmed it will defy a CRTC demand…
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QUISPAMSIS, NB – Nominations are now closed and judging is underway for Tuned-in Canada: The CCSA Awards 2019.
Judges Greg O’Brien (president of FindTV, and editor…
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EDMONTON – Super Channel will screen the Starz original series The Spanish Princess next month, day and date with its U.S. premiere on Starz.
While Bell owns the Starz brand…
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SHOULD QUEBECOR FOLLOW through on its threat to take TVA Sports away from Bell TV customers (which seems sure to happen, given this tweet from…
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GATINEAU – During the final regular season game of the NHL season aired on TVA Sports this past weekend, the Quebecor-owned broadcaster warned viewers they were going to…
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TORONTO – Labour lawyer Marie Kelly has been tapped to helm ACTRA, the national union of professional performers working in the English-language recorded media sector in Canada, as its…
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OTTAWA – NDP Official Languages Critic François Choquette wants Canadian Heritage to prove that its $500 million production agreement with Netflix will include the production of French-language content.
Choquette…
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