CALGARY – CBC announced today Tarik Robinson will be the new producer and host of Key of A, an all-Alberta music show.
The show airs on Saturdays from 5-6 p.m. on CBC Radio One and online on CBC Listen. Robinson begins hosting and producing the show tomorrow, taking over from the show’s previous host Katherine Duncan.
“Tarik is a ground-breaker and is hugely respected in Canadian hip hop,” says Helen Henderson, CBC’s senior director of journalism and programming, in a press release.
“He brings a depth of knowledge across all genres and the respect and admiration of the Alberta Music Community. With…
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OTTAWA – CBC’s Media Technology Monitor (MTM) released a new report today that looks at media consumption and technology adoption in the north.
“For the first time, MTM expanded the scope of the MTM 18+ to survey the North, allowing a unique opportunity to examine how those residing in Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut compare and contrast to the average Canadian,” a press release reads.
The report shows cell phone ownership in the north is similar to the rest of Canada, although those who live in the north “are slightly more likely to own an iPhone… (58% versus 51%),” the press…
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TORONTO — CBC and production company 100 Dragons announced yesterday the new CBC Gem original series Hello (Again) created by Simu Liu and Nathalie Younglai has started principal photography and will continue to film until Oct. 25 in Toronto.
Liu (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Kim’s Convenience) and Younglai (Coroner, founder of BIPOC TV & Film) are executive producers of the series, along with Alex Mallari Jr. The series is being produced by 100 Dragons founder Teresa M. Ho (Frankie Drake Mysteries, Departure, Anne with an E).
Hello (Again) is directed by Melanie Chung and stars Mallari (Workin’…
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CBC ANNOUNCED TODAY Overlord and the Underwoods will premiere on CBC Gem this Halloween weekend.
“The series will premiere in two parts on CBC Gem, with the first 10 episodes all available to stream beginning Friday October 29, and the remaining episodes in Winter 2022,” a press release says.
Overlord and the Underwoods (20×30), which was filmed in Ontario and produced by marblemedia and Cloudco Entertainment, is “an original live action, single-camera family comedy from award-winning Canadian writer Anthony Q. Farrell (NBC’s The Office, CBBC’s Secret Life of Boys) and co-creator Ryan Wiesbrock (Buddy Thunderstruck, Holly Hobbie).”
The series “follows the Underwoods,…
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TORONTO and HAMILTON – Boss & Co, Portfolio Entertainment and CBC today announced production on Homeschooled, a new CBC Gem original YA dramedy series, has begun in Toronto and Hamilton.
“Created, directed, and executive produced by Karen Knox and Gwenlyn Cumyn (Slo Pitch, Barbelle), Homeschooled explores the niche world of home education as mainstream and fringe teen experiences collide in a unique coming-of-age tale,” a press release says.
“Freaks are underrated and “trads” (a student attending a “traditional” education facility) rarely make history – or at least that’s what 16-year-old intellectuals Farzanah (Eman Ayaz, Ghostwriter) and Greta (Veronika Slowikowska, What We Do in the Shadows) set…
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OTTAWA — CBC’s Media Technology Monitor (MTM) today released a new report called “TV Fandom” that looks at TV viewers and their fan activities online.
According to the report, just over one-third of TV viewers engage in online activities related to the TV shows they watch.
“This could include visiting official and fan-created show websites, or following shows or cast members on social media,” reads an MTM press release.
“Younger viewers are more likely to be engaging in these online activities, in particular, following shows and cast on social media.” In addition, “SVOD viewers are more likely to be engaging in online…
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TORONTO — CBC announced today the next edition of its ongoing One Stop Business Workshop virtual series, organized in partnership with the Canadian Audio-Visual Certification Office (CAVCO) and the Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA), is designed to help independent producers learn more about sustainable production.
“In advance of the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 and coinciding with National Waste Reduction Week, the newest edition of the virtual information session series, running October 19-21, is titled Green Week and will focus on easily implemented sustainable practices to reduce the carbon footprint of productions,” reads a CBC press release.
The Green Week workshop…
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TORONTO — CBC announced today the addition of three new podcasts to its fall 2021 slate.
Season two of Stuff the British Stole is launching on CBC Podcasts on Wednesday, Oct. 20. The podcast examines “the not-so-polite history behind artifacts locked up in respectable institutions around the world,” says a press release.
In each episode of this five-part series, “award-winning journalist Marc Fennell picks one artifact and takes listeners on the wild, evocative, sometimes funny, often tragic adventure of how it got to where it is now,” the release says.
Season two of Stuff the British Stole was produced by Australian Broadcasting…
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REGINA – Zarqa Nawaz (above) and CBC announced today production has begun in Regina, Saskatchewan on Zarqa (6×11), a new original comedy series premiering on CBC Gem in 2022.
Nawaz, the award-winning Canadian film and television producer, author, and journalist who created the CBC sit-com Little Mosque on the Prairie, is the series the creator, showrunner and lead actor.
“Zarqa follows its titular character, a complex, middle-aged Muslim woman (played by Nawaz) who learns on social media that her ex-husband is marrying a white yoga instructor half his age named Bethany. Zarqa impulsively comments that she will attend the wedding with…
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LOS ANGELES and TORONTO — Independent entertainment company Boat Rocker announced today it has struck a first-look deal with Canadian brothers, actors and producers Shamier Anderson (above, left) and Stephan James (right).
“Under the deal, Anderson and James, the stars of Boat Rocker’s highly anticipated series Invasion and Beacon 23, respectively, will develop and produce original television projects for the company under their Bay Mills Studio banner,” reads a Boat Rocker press release.
Anderson is starring in the Boat Rocker-produced series Invasion, created by producer Simon Kinberg, which will premiere on Apple TV+ on Oct. 22. James is an executive producer…
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