Damian Abraham, frontman of Canadian punk band F*cked Up, and International Digital Emmy-winning producer Zach Feldberg have partnered to launch Cut & Paste Pictures.
The Toronto-based production company is entering the market with a slate of projects in development, spanning scripted and unscripted formats, and a feature documentary currently in production.
“Focusing on bold, voice-driven projects rooted in music, counterculture, and outsider perspectives, Cut & Paste champions unconventional stories with wide audience appeal,” reads a Wednesday press release announcing the prodco’s launch.
The creative partnership between Abraham and Feldberg combines their backgrounds…
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CBC News announced Wednesday an expansion of local news services in Hamilton, Ontario, with a live audio weekday morning show and a weekly podcast to be added to the existing digital news offered by the station.
CBC News said in a press release it will hire up to six new roles to support the added services, which are scheduled to launch later this year.
“This is an exciting and important investment in Hamilton,” said Brodie Fenlon, general manager and editor-in-chief of CBC News, in a statement. “We will double-down on CBC service to…
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CBC announced Tuesday the two-part documentary Speechless from Emmy Award-winning Canadian filmmaker Ric Esther Bienstock will air commercial-free on CBC TV on April 14 and 15 at 8 p.m. (8:30 NT), and will also be available to stream on CBC Gem as of 9 a.m. ET on April 14.
A CBC and Documentary Channel original produced in association with BBC, Speechless (two episodes x 90 minutes) will also premiere in the U.K. on BBC Storyville and iPlayer.
“Filmed on campuses in the U.S. and the U.K., the documentary brings together years of investigation and on-the-ground filmmaking to…
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Corus Entertainment announced Tuesday it has received an order from the Ontario Superior Court of Justice to proceed with its previously announced recapitalization transaction, which is designed to reduce the media company’s third-party debt and other liabilities by more than $500 million.
Other expected benefits of the recapitalization include decreasing Corus’s initial annual cash interest payments by up to $40 million, as well as extending debt maturity by five years and maintaining continued access to a $125-million secured revolving credit facility.
The court approval for the recapitalization transaction comes after…
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Postmedia Studios, a division of Canadian news media company Postmedia Network Inc., and Elevation Pictures’ Toronto-based production division on Tuesday announced a new strategic partnership to finance, develop and launch select Canadian feature projects.
The collaboration will see Postmedia leverage its national audience reach and data insights to help support the development, production and successful release of films, a Postmedia press release said.
The first project to be advanced through the partnership will be Fire Weather, a feature documentary commissioned by CBC and co-produced by Elevation Pictures and Toronto-based production company Mercury Films. Inspired…
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Canadians watched 1.63 million streams of Milano Cortina 2026 Paralympic Winter Games content on CBC/Radio-Canada’s digital platforms from March 6 to 15, which is more than triple the number of streams during the Beijing 2022 Paralympics, according to a Tuesday press release from CBC.
Audiences streamed a total of more than 682,000 hours of Milano Cortina Paralympics content on CBC Gem and ICI TOU.TV, the CBC News app and the Radio-Canada Info app, as well as the CBC and Continue Reading
MP Champoux says CBC head still needs to explain the strategy for the channel’s distribution
By Ahmad Hathout
Following backlash, Radio-Canada said Friday it has asked Amazon to stop taking subscriptions for its ICI RDI on Prime Video until it can offer the 24-hour French-language news channel on its own ICI Tou.TV service.
“Sensitive to public concerns expressed following its announcement of the distribution agreement for ICI RDI on Prime Video, Radio-Canada has asked Prime Video to pause the channel’s signal for new subscriptions,” the public broadcaster said in a press release Friday afternoon. “This will allow the public broadcaster to…
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CBC says it’s listening to concerns, but expounds on why it did the deal
By Ahmad Hathout
The Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage will call the president and CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada to explain the public broadcaster’s decision to make its news products available on Amazon Prime Video as add-on subscriptions.
A motion, introduced by Bloc Quebecois MP Martin Champoux, to bring Marie-Philippe Bouchard before the committee was received favourably by the Liberals and Conservatives and passed at the end of the committee’s study session Tuesday on the state of journalism and media.
A date for Bouchard’s appearance will be determined later. The committee…
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CBC/Radio-Canada announced Thursday that its all-news channels, CBC News Network and ICI RDI, are now available on Amazon Prime Video as add-on subscriptions.
The service, which provides around the clock live, breaking news coverage, costs $5-per-month and has a seven-day free trial.
CBC’s Executive Vice-President Doug Smith said in a press release that this move will help “broaden the reach” of the service.
“There is a strong demand among francophones across the country for trusted and reliable news sources, such as ICI RDI,” added Dany Meloul, executive vice-president of Radio-Canada, in the release. “This agreement with Prime Video allows us to provide…
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The Canadian Elite Basketball League (CEBL) and CBC Sports announced Tuesday a five-year broadcast partnership that will see marquee games air on CBC TV, including the league’s first best-of-three CEBL Finals, and all games live streamed on CBC Gem and the CBC Sports YouTube channel.
The new agreement marks the return of CBC Sports as the league’s broadcast partner. CBC Sports was the official broadcaster for the CEBL’s inaugural seasons from 2019 through 2022. Bell Media’s TSN and RDS were the league’s broadcast partners from 2023 through 2025.
Under the new…
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