TORONTO – Bell Media announced today production has begun on an all-new wedding series, helmed by wedding and fashion expert (and pal of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex) Jessica Mulroney (right), which will premiere in Canada and internationally in 2020
I Do, Redo is a 10-episode, 30-minute series from Insight Productions and is a collaboration between Bell Media and Netflix which will see the local broadcaster own the rights for Canada (it’ll be shown on CTV, CTV Life Channel, and Crave) and Netflix will stream it everywhere else.
The show will see Mulroney take 10 couples who had awful weddings thanks…
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Would let the province veto future Netflix-type deals
OTTAWA – In the most detailed plan yet on broadcasting from any of any of the major political parties during the federal election campaign, the Green Party has broadened its protectionist policy to provide Quebec with a veto on agreements with foreign production companies, such as Netflix, which affect the province’s cultural sector.
“The culture of Quebec needs to be protected from content that streams into our homes online that has nothing to do with Canada,” Green Party leader Elizabeth May said at Place des Arts in Montreal on Wednesday.
She was joined by…
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OTTAWA – A collective of Canadian startups will try to attract global attention next week as they exhibit new, innovative applications at Mobile World Congress 2019 Los Angeles.
The four companies were selected to participate in the L-Spark Secure IoT Accelerator Program earlier this year and are now ready to demonstrate their work. Applications created by the four Canadian companies were built on a new hardware and software platform that follows global IoT security guidelines recently developed by the GSMA, reads the L-Spark press release.
“Telus is committed to supporting industry initiatives that address ever-evolving cybersecurity threats by leveraging ‘secure…
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OTTAWA – Absent during Monday night’s only English-language leaders’ debate, telecom and broadcasting were eventually raised during the scrums with journalists afterward at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Que.
Andrew Scheer, whose Conservative Party has yet to release its full campaign platform, was asked whether he planned to tackle telecom affordability as the Liberals, NDP and Greens have already announced they would do.
“What Justin Trudeau has proposed is a goal without a plan,” Scheer replied. “He says this is something he’s going to do just by asking companies to do it. If that would have worked, why…
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MONTREAL – Music distributor Stingray recently put market research firm Leger to work to study the music being played in the background inside Canadian small businesses, and it found most have no idea they need to be paying for the music being used in their public spaces.
According to the study, while music is considered essential by 71% of respondents, only 11% pay for the rights. Also, according to the report, 63% of those surveyed are unaware of any regulation preventing them from using a private streaming account (like Spotify) to broadcast music publicly in their business, reads the…
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Long time TV producer to be chief creative officer and co-president, content production
NEW YORK and TORONTO – Blue Ant Media announced today the appointment of Emmy-award winning producer and long time television and film executive Laura Michalchyshyn as chief creative officer and co-president, content production, Blue Ant Studios, effective immediately.
In this newly created role, Michalchyshyn will oversee creative across multiple Blue Ant Media businesses while co-managing and growing Blue Ant Studios alongside co-president, Blue Ant Studios, Sam Sniderman, says the company press release.
Her key focus will be growing the company’s unscripted and scripted production slate in North America while…
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Company partners with Screen Nova Scotia, too
TORONTO – Two years ago, streaming giant Netflix made a public commitment to invest at least $500 million in movies and television shows produced in Canada, both in English and French, over five years.
The company, which sure is being mentioned a lot during the election campaign and may well face additional mandates to make and display Cancon in the future, announced last week it has already exceeded that and has no plans to slow its spending here, which has helped contribute to a boom in…
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OTTAWA — Canada’s broadcasters are committing themselves to achieving gender parity in TV and film production, where 50% of key creative roles will be held by women by 2025.
On Tuesday, the CRTC posted the results so far from its Women in Production initiative to promote gender parity, which included the formation of a steering committee and the convening of a summit in December 2018 that brought together executives from Canada’s largest public and private broadcasters. Those broadcasters have now published their respective action plans for achieving gender parity in key creative positions, such as producer, director, writer, showrunner,…
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OTTAWA – The federal Liberals want multinational tech giants, such as Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple, to “pay their fair share” and presumably help offset the $9.3 billion in new investments the Liberal Party announced for 2020-21 in its detailed platform released on Sunday.
If Justin Trudeau’s Liberals hang onto power, they plan to introduce a 3% tax on revenue generated through the sale of online advertising and user data by digital companies with global revenues of at least $1 billion a year, and Canadian revenues of at least $40 million a year. This new tax…
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MISSISSAUGA, ON — The grand opening of CBS Stages Canada took place Thursday, with local dignitaries, provincial representatives and cast members from CBS-produced television series on hand to take part in the ribbon cutting on the 260,000-square-foot TV and film production facility located west of Toronto in Mississauga, Ont.
Situated on a 12-acre property, the multi-use CBS Stages Canada facility includes six soundstages, production offices, support facilities and auxiliary services for large-scale TV and film production. CBS is the first major US media company to open a branded production entity in Canada.
Among those in attendance for the official ribbon cutting…
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