Well, it’s finally been settled. Corus has acquired Shaw Media, as announced on shawmedia.ca corusent.com. With Shaw Media containing 19 different sections of entertainment, such as Food Network Canada, BBC Canada, and many more unique
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Bad News, Good News, for Canadian Producers
(Via CNW) “Today’s CRTC decision [to okay the buying of Shaw Media by Corus Entertainment] sends a shiver down the spine of Canada’s independent producers,” says Reynolds Mastin, President and CEO, the Canadian Media Producers
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Medical Move, Snowtime Screen Award, Big Brother, and Race Roots
(via CBC.ca) Hard Rock Medical is taking their production from Sudbury and moving out to North Bay.The Canadian Drama series that was filmed at Sudbury’s College Boreal will have to be filmed elsewhere for practical
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New on HGTV Canada: Carver Kings
(Via Shaw Media) A team of world-class chainsaw mavericks based out of Williams Lake, B.C., are at the heart of Carver Kings, a new reality show premiering in April on HGTV Canada. They’re part
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Daily Rushes for Last Thurs in Feb
The Canadian Screen Awards’ earliest trophies were handed out yesterday, eight of them to sci-fi TV series Orphan Black; read about it in the Brandon Sun Award-winning documentary Highway of Tears, the story of a
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From the Regina Leader-Post: Chris Knight has some questions about the Oscars’ “often artificial divide between original and adapted screenplays” . . . (Via PRWeb) Old Fashioned, the, ahem, old fashioned romance whose “release [at
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