TV, eh?

From a media release:

MuchMusic tranforms the corner of Queen & John in Toronto into the biggest party in the country with the 2008 MMVAs, this Sunday, June 15. The MMVAs engages and interacts with its audience. This year the Much team has come up with some innovative online opportunities, giving the fans access to the show, and additional exclusive content online wherever they are in the country. Included in this year’s online initiatives, Much gives viewers a chance to win $10,000 during the show with MMVA10k (www.muchmusic.com/mmva10k). Viewers answer real-time questions about what’s happening live on the show and collect points to win.

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The first TV, eh? live Internet radio show will air Sunday, April 20 at 11 am Pacific/2 pm Eastern and weekly thereafter. Listen live at Blogtalkradio or call in at 646-200-4063 to join the fun.

For the first show we’ve got some great guests lined up. Robson Arms returns to CTV’s regular schedule on April 28, and co-creators Susin Nielsen and Gary Harvey will talk about the show’s third season. Have a question for them? Call in live, or leave it in the comments and I might ask it for you.

My brother the technogeek, Steve Wild, will talk about what wacky television shows he watches and how he watches them: he’ll discuss TV on the web; how networks are missing the boat and how they’re succeeding. Let us know what you think.

And screenwriter/journalist Mark Leiren-Young was at the Senate committee hearings on Bill C-10 so he’ll be on the line to report on that controversy. Call in with your opinion: censorship or prudent oversight of taxpayer money?

Listen live Sundays at 11 am Pacific/2 pm Eastern, call in at 646-200-4063, or listen to the archived podcast afterwards.

From CBC:

• CBC-TV first in North America to release prime-time show on BitTorrent
  “CBC Television plans to release its Sunday episode of Canada’s Next Great Prime Minister on BitTorrent, a file-sharing service that would allow users to copy and share the show. The release, free and without ads or digital rights management (DRM) software, is believed to be the first release of a prime-time show in North America.” Read more.

Steve Tilly of the Toronto Sun writes about the various web activities around jPod:

• CBC tangled in web
  “Launching tomorrow will be the Neotronic Arts website (neotronicarts.com), based on the fictional, Electronic Arts-style video game developer featured in the book and series. Also going live tomorrow is the jPod Lounge (jpodlounge.com), a 3-D virtual space featuring goodies such as video introductions to the characters.” Read more.

From Jesse Kohl in Media in Canada:

• CBC moving into mid-season with interactive gems
  “CBC has gone live with an immersive online reality game to back the upcoming mid-season crime drama The Border, along with microsites for other upcoming premieres.” Read more.

jPod Podsters (counter clock-wise) Steph Song as Bree, David Kopp as Ethan Jarleswski, Emilie Ullerup as Kaitlin, Ben Ayres as Cowboy, Torrance Coombs as John Doe.

Tod Maffin of Inside the CBC chats up the new websites for CBC’s new winter shows (complete with URLs!):

• New sites for new shows
  “It should have been no surprise, but the shows I mentioned in yesterday’s item on the 2008 winter preview also have websites - you just haven’t seen them yet. And some of them are rather spiffy!” Read more.

From a media release:

Jam3Media Delivers the Border Site for CBC – Sets Standard for Immersive Reality Games

Selected from among an elite group of interactive designers, Toronto’s Jam3media is proud to announce the release of their online offering to complement The Border, a new tv crime drama by Canadian broadcaster CBC.

(The media release doesn’t give the URL - stay tuned)

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From the Canadian Press:

• CBC hopes to attract young, Net-savvy viewers through YouTube.ca
  “Video-sharing giant YouTube launched a Canadian website Tuesday aimed at highlighting homegrown content, a move the CBC hopes will attract young, Internet-savvy viewers to the public broadcaster.” Read more.

Kara Nicholson of Media in Canada:

• Slice promotes Runway by expanding online content
  “Slice network’s website has launched a second wave of exclusive content for Project Runway Canada to deliver more ways for viewers to interact with the series, which airs Mondays at 10 pm ET.” Read more.

Ilona Beiks of Playback reports on JPod Internet extras:

• JPod extras in the works
  “Douglas Coupland is playing games with producers Larry Sugar and J.B. Sugar. The author of Generation X, Souvenir of Canada and Everything’s Gone Green is exec producing the adaptation of his game-themed novel JPod with the father and son principals of No Equal Entertainment for CBC and, according to J.B. Sugar, a web component may also be in the works.”