Archives Listing for: February 5, 2007
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CTF, CBC summoned to OttawaThe long-awaited review of CBC by the Heritage committee will open with a look at the meltdown at CTF
$10 million for SODEC Quebec unveils permanent boost to the annual budget of its troubled arts funder amid cheers from filmmakers
Showcase orders more Rent-A-GoalieThe hockey sitcom gets back to work with a slightly bigger order and an all-star guest lineup including Phil Esposito and Darryl Sittler
Super Bowl grabs 3.4 millionThe Big Game, as expected, stomped other Sunday night programming, though audiences were down from last year and the numbers fell short of CTV's
CSI
First-timers at FilmExchange The Winnipeg film festival is set to unspool the northern noir
That Beautiful Somewhere and a behind-the-scenes doc about the making of
Beowulf & Grendel
Lévesque leaves TeletoonAfter 10 years of heading its original productions, Madeleine Lévesque has exited
Teletoon to take a top post at 9 Story Entertainment
New look for TeletoonLast summer,
Teletoon started planning a multiplatform rebranding to go with its 10th anniversary. The bold new brand launched this week -- four agencies, an online youth advisory panel and a cross-country focus group effort later
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News
Cablers at odds with Oda
Court orders ACTRA arbitration
Cinespace closing Marine studio
Von Finckenstein is new CRTC chief
The CTF mess
How She Move scores Sundance deal
A good film in any language
Partition needs heart
Bon Cop, Kigali tie Jutra noms with 12 each
CTF tweaks 2007/08 guidelines
TV needs 'vision,' says Heritage critic Keeper
Fiddler and Mile Zero on DVD
Degrassi close to syndication following NATPE
Emmy noms kick off expanded KidScreen Summit
People
Sold!
With no vision comes no Canada
Advertisers eye online version of Falcon Beach
Quebec loves clay cartoons
What they're saying:
Briefs
Letter
Readership Poll Results
Dissenting cablers forget the point
Canada at the Oscars
Water's journey to Oscar glory
Danish Poet lands Kove's second nom
National Film Board Oscar wins
27th Annual Genie Awards
Will bigger movies equal more Genie viewers?
Consulting their inner poutine
Huard comes full circle at Genies
Nominees for achievement in direction
Nominees for best motion picture
Nominees for performance by an actor in a leading role
Nominees for performance by an actress in a leading role
Film & Television
The other Jane show
Barna-Alper readies Céline, has Pickton in wings