WHEN NOW-FORMER Heritage Minister Melanie Joly announced the launch of public consultations with consumers and creators to bring Canada’s cultural properties (everything from the Broadcasting Act to the CRTC) into the digital age, there was great excitement.
That was in April, 2016, nearly two and a half years ago.
Her extensive consultations led to the publication of the Creative Canada Policy Framework in September, 2017, which included a request to the CRTC to examine future programming distribution models and report back to her by June 1, 2018. The Commission used a variety of consultation tools in preparing…
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TORONTO – Production will kick off this week for a six episode reboot of ‘80s legal drama Street Legal, CBC confirmed Wednesday.
The public broadcaster said that the new series, like the original, will “combine cutting-edge storylines with ongoing serialized character development, focused on the people who practice law and the lives they lead both on and off the job”.
Cynthia Dale (pictured) will reprise her role as Olivia Novak, with Cara Ricketts (The Book of Negroes), Steve Lund (Haven) and Yvonne Chapman (The Crossing) joining the series as the next generation of Toronto lawyers fighting the good fight. Original cast members Eric Peterson (“Leon Robinovitch”) and Anthony Sherwood (“Dillon Beck”) are…
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TORONTO – More than CAD$162.7 million has been pledged collectively so far in connection with Friday’s star-studded Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) "roadblock" fundraising telecast in Canada and the United States, organizers said Monday.
The live show was SU2C's sixth biennial fundraising telecast since the organization was launched in 2008 and marks ten years of impact in the fight against cancer. The telecast, which also streamed live in Toronto's Yonge-Dundas Square on Bell Media's Astral large-format digital screens and the Citytv Big Screen, featured a cast of celebrated figures from the worlds of entertainment, music, sports, and science, as…
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TORONTO – The Canada Media Fund (CMF), in partnership with the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), will host and participate in an industry session this Saturday during the industry track of the festival dedicated to “Engaging Today’s Consumers: Building a National Brand for Film, TV, and Digital”.
CMF president and CEO Valerie Creighton will moderate a panel discussion on why now is the time to think outside the box and build a consumer-facing brand for the Canadian audiovisual industry that has the power to inspire audiences; to change the way Canadians and the world perceive Canadian content; and to shine…
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TORONTO – CBC is readying a new original documentary series that promises to take Canadians on an intimate and story-driven journey inside the creative process of Canada’s leading artists.
In The Making (8×30) is created and hosted by Sean O’Neill (pictured) who visits artists at home, in studio, backstage, and in the field, giving viewers rare access to intimate creative spaces and inspiring moments of realization. The inaugural season follows eight artists working across the artistic spectrum – in dance, theatre, visual art, and music – in Canada and around the world as they face challenges, realize new works, and…
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TORONTO – CBC has promoted Gave Lindo to executive director of OTT programming.
Prior to rejoining CBC in December 2017, Lindo (pictured) was executive director of the Reelworld Film Festival and Foundation. From 2009–2015, he worked with CBC’s Business and Rights team, and was named deputy director in 2013. He also chaired the CBC/Radio-Canada Inclusion and Diversity Advisory Committee between 2011–2015.
In his new role, Lindo will lead and evolve OTT content strategies and partner with all internal teams to ensure the continued growth and expansion of CBC's over-the-top streaming service, including the CBC TV streaming app for iOs and Android and cbc.ca/watch, as well as…
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OTTAWA – Registration is now open for the ‘Canadian Communications Policy and Legislation: Time for a Review’ presented by the Canadian Chapter of the International Institute of Communications.
Scheduled for October 31 and November 1, 2018 at the Shaw Centre in Ottawa, the event promises to bring together communications regulators, policy makers and lawyers from Canada and the U.S. to debate the key issues affecting broadcasting, telecommunications and the Internet today.
Cartt.ca editor and publisher Greg O’Brien will moderate the opening morning plenaries, and confirmed speakers include CRTC chair Ian Scott, CBC/Radio-Canada president and CEO Catherine Tait, and U.S. FCC Commissioner…
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LAST WEEK, CARTT.CA's Greg O’Brien published an edited version of a presentation he gave as a “provocateur” at a roundtable session about the future of Canadian television production at Ryerson University. The Writers Guild of Canada (WGC) was, in the best spirit of intellectual engagement and discussion, indeed provoked!
To begin with, the WGC wholeheartedly agrees with O’Brien’s acknowledgement that Canadian film and television production is an important driver of economic activity in Canada. We also agree that the Canadian creative industries need and deserve government support in order to survive and thrive. And we particularly…
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TORONTO – All four of Canada's English-language network broadcasters will once again simultaneously air a Canadian-inclusive Stand Up To Cancer special next month.
For the third time, Stand Up To Cancer Canada will simultaneously broadcast a Canada-inclusive telecast across CBC, Citytv, CTV, and Global, as well as Canadian services AMI, A.Side, BBC Earth, CHCH, CHEK, Cottage Life, Fight Network, Game TV, HIFI, Hollywood Suite, Love Nature, Makeful, NTV, OUTtv, Smithsonian Channel Canada, T+E, YES TV, in addition to streaming live on the CBC TV App, cbc.ca/watch, CBS All Access, CTV GO and CTV.ca, Global GO and GlobalTV.com, and available on-demand on Telus…
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OTTAWA – CBC has partnered with the Canadian Paralympic Committee to provide live streaming coverage of the 2018 World Wheelchair Basketball Championships starting August 17 through August 26 from Hamburg, Germany.
All of Canada's games from the men's and women's teams at the world championships will be livestreamed on cbcsports.ca, via the CBC Sports app for iOS and Android devices, the CBC TV app and cbc.ca/watch, as well as the Canadian Paralympic Committee and Wheelchair Basketball Canada's Facebook pages.
The Canadian men are one of 16 teams vying…
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