VANCOUVER — Thunderbird Entertainment Group’s kids and family division, Atomic Cartoons, announced Tuesday its animated series Molly of Denali about the adventures of a young Indigenous girl has been nominated for a Peabody Award.
Co-produced by WGBH Boston and Atomic Cartoons for PBS Kids and CBC Kids, Molly of Denali is one of only two nominees in the children and youth category for the Peabody Awards this year.
“It is such an incredible honour to receive a Peabody Award nomination for Molly of Denali, a series that we have been so passionate about from the very beginning,” said Jennifer Twiner McCarron,…
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TORONTO – Beginning Wednesday night and running through Sunday, May 17, CBC Sports is bringing Canadians exclusive live streaming coverage of the Korean Ladies Professional Golf Association (KLPGA) championship via cbcsports.ca, the CBC Sports App for iOS and Android, and the free CBC Gem streaming service.
The four-day event takes place at the Lakewood Country Club in Yangju, South Korea and marks the first professional golf tournament to return to the sports calendar since March, when the Covid-19 crisis stopped all pro and amateur sports.
The 42nd KLPGA Championship will be the tour’s first event since December and will be played…
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TORONTO — To help Canadians connect to nature as they practise social distancing and stay home, CBC has launched the new Hello Spring website, a four-week Canada-wide digital initiative “celebrating the wonders of spring as it unfolds across the country in the midst of a year unlike any other,” reads the news release from CBC today.
The website features documentaries and photography from some of Canada’s top nature and wildlife cinematographers, including renowned filmmaker Jeff Turner (The Wild Canadian Year). Also featured is a collection of the best nature livestreams from coast-to-coast-to-coast, including eagles feeding their young in B.C., peregrine…
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THE BANFF WORLD MEDIA FESTIVAL is launching four months of premium online content from May to September, following the cancellation of this year’s in-person festival due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Banff Virtual Edition program will connect the international media industry and help to ignite new projects and business development, say Banff organizers. The Rockie Awards (June 15) and Banff Day (June 16) will tentpole the season of programming, the majority of which will be offered to the global industry free of charge, says the news release.
International media companies already signed up to participate in sessions and exclusive networking…
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TORONTO — On Tuesday, CBC Sports launched the third season of its signature podcast series Player’s Own Voice, with the release of the premiere episode featuring a candid conversation with two-time Olympic bronze medal-winning soccer star Christine Sinclair.
Hosted by two-time Olympic speedskater Anastasia Bucsis, the Player’s Own Voice podcasts are a provocative talk series offering athletes an unfiltered way to speak on a variety of topics, providing a new perspective on the world of high-performance sports, says the news release.
Other guests joining Bucsis over the course of the third season include: curling star Jennifer Jones, field hockey player John…
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TORONTO — CBC announced Friday the 12-part BBC/Hulu series Normal People will premiere in Canada exclusively on the free CBC Gem streaming service on Wednesday, May 27.
Normal People (12×30) is based on Sally Rooney’s best-selling, coming-of-age novel and stars Daisy Edgar-Jones (War of the Worlds, Cold Feet) and newcomer Paul Mescal. The series recently launched in the U.K. and the U.S. and has been touted as one of the best book-to-series adaptations in recent years.
The series tracks the complicated relationship of Marianne (Edgar-Jones) and Connell (Mescal) from the end of their school days in a small town in the…
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VANCOUVER — Multiplatform content production and distribution company Thunderbird Entertainment Group today provided an update regarding how the company is responding to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, saying it remains fully operational.
The company’s entire team of more than 1,000 crew members across all of its divisions have been set up to work remotely since March 30. Engineering work to move teams offsite started in February and was rolled out in March, with optimization taking place in early April, says the news release.
In addition to enabling all productions in development to move forward, Thunderbird’s ability to remain operational has also…
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GATINEAU — A letter sent to the CRTC by Quebecor Media after interventions were closed for the CBC/Radio-Canada’s licence renewal process will not be added to the public record, the Commission announced Wednesday.
Quebecor made the late submission to the proceeding on April 14, after the February 20 deadline for interventions. In its letter, Quebecor complained that CBC/Radio-Canada is competing unfairly with private broadcasters during the Covid-19 crisis. Quebecor had already submitted an intervention before the deadline, but followed up with additional complaints against the public broadcaster in its letter.
In a letter dated May 6 sent to Quebecor,…
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TORONTO — This year’s Canadian Screen Award winners will be announced in virtual presentations later this month, the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television announced today.
The award presentations will be livestreamed on the Canadian Academy’s Facebook, Twitter and YouTube channels as well as its website over four days, from Monday, May 25 to Thursday, May 28.
The announcement follows the cancellation of all Canadian Screen Week events due to the Covid-19 pandemic, including the Canadian Screen Awards Broadcast Gala that was originally scheduled for March 29.
The Canadian Screen Award virtual presentations will consist of eight pre-taped, thematically distinct online…
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By Greg O’Brien
ON SATURDAY, CBC.ca published a story that said nearly 60% of rural Canadians don’t have access to high speed broadband, a piece which of course whipped around on social media and was republished unquestioned by other websites.
If I want to be nice, I’d say the story is terribly misleading. What it is though, is just untrue.
The story’s sub-headline and again in the body copy says “CRTC data suggests as few as 40.8 per cent of rural households have access to high-speed broadband.”
This is, simply put, a false sentence devoid of all context split from reality and…
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