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New Website Showcases Successful Canadian Television Fund Productions

From a media release:

The Canadian Television Fund (CTF) launched its new website today, a dynamic resource celebrating the best in Canadian TV. Visitors to www.ctf-fct.ca can get updates on great dramas, documentaries, kids’ shows and variety and performing arts programs, along with detailed information on CTF funding activities and governance.

“The new website tells the CTF story by showcasing the many achievements of CTF-funded programming,” said Valerie Creighton, President of the CTF. “Along with providing materials to producers to access our funding and information to broadcasters on envelope allocations, the site also ensures that contributors, government, and the Canadian public have current updates on the CTF’s performance in meeting our evolving mandate.”

Success stories of CTF-funded shows are available on the website in the 2006-2007 Annual Report which offers detailed analysis of CTF funding streams and the projects they support. A feature on audience data delivers a revealing portrait of domestic viewing of Canadian and foreign programming, including CTF-supported genres.

The website also includes a Funding Results section which highlights newly financed productions and returning seasons of audience favourites that will air on Canadian television channels in the near future. A new Governance section contains the CTF Board Charter describing the Board’s mandate, accountability and composition, the CTF’s Policy on Independence of Directors and its Conflict of Interest Guidelines.

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Flashpoint

In the news: Flashpoint picked up by CBS

From the Hollywood Reporter:

  • Flashpoint sparks at CBS
    “‘The writers room is all Canadian; it’s Canadian produced,’ said [CTV’s Susanne Boyce]. ‘There are no WGA issues. And this is the first time that a Canadian-developed original series has aired on a Big Four network since Due South.’ Boyce hinted at a second U.S. network deal in the works.” Read more.

From the Canadian Press:

  • Strike-beleaguered CBS picking up CTV made-in-Canada drama
    “One of the biggest television networks in the U.S. is set to air at least 13 episodes of a made-in-Canada CTV police drama in the wake of a prolonged Hollywood screenwriters strike that’s prompting every American broadcaster to explore new programming options.” Read more.

From the New York Times:

From Variety:

  • CBS teams with Canada’s CTV
    “In another sign of how the WGA strike is reshaping network TV’s development process, CBS Paramount Network TV is planning to team with Canada’s CTV to produce at least 13 episodes of a police drama dubbed Flashpoint.” Read more.
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In the news: The celebrity of a Canadian actor

From Jay Stone of Canwest News Service:

  • Homegrown actors don’t get to live on celebrity
    “They shot a Canadian movie recently called Love and Other Dilemmas, and the cast included three actors who are in the TV sitcom Corner Gas, three from the sitcom Robson Arms — two of them are in both series — plus two from Godiva’s, one from Smallville and one from Stargate: Atlantis. ‘It’s what you need to do as a Canadian to pay the bills,’ says Fred Ewanuick, one of the Corner Gas/Robson Arms people.” Read more.
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