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Link: Women underrepresented in TV, film, and now, web series: report

From CBC:

Women underrepresented in TV, film, and now, web series: report
A report released Wednesday says, not only are women are still under-represented in key roles in Canadian film and television, but in web series and as actors as well.

The annual report — released in Toronto and St. John’s at the St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival (SJIWFF)— shows while awareness and concern about gender equity in the screen industry has grown, the number of women working as directors, screenwriters and cinematographers in Canadian feature film and television —and now in web series — is still low. Continue reading.

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CBC/Radio-Canada wins broadcast rights to Olympic Games in 2022 and 2024

From a media release:

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today announced that CBC/Radio-Canada has secured the Canadian broadcast rights for the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games and the 2024 Olympic Games. With today’s announcement, CBC/Radio-Canada is Canada’s Olympic Network and Official Broadcaster for the next five Olympic Games including Rio 2016, Pyeongchang 2018, and Tokyo 2020.

CBC/Radio-Canada will also be a broadcast partner, from 2016 until at least 2023, for the IOC’s new global digital Olympic Channel. The public broadcaster will provide Canadian sports content to support the channel’s focus on the Olympic Movement between Games.

As lead broadcaster, CBC/Radio-Canada will be working again with its primary Olympic broadcast partner, Bell Media along with Rogers Media.

 

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Link: Canada looks to sell its TV shows to the world at MIPCOM in Cannes

From Bill Brioux in the Globe and Mail:

Canada looks to sell its TV shows to the world at MIPCOM in Cannes
There is a strong Canadian presence at MIPCOM, with pavilions representing both Canada and Quebec leaving large footprints on the floor of the multi-level convention centre. Popular shows such as “Murdoch Mysteries,” “Just for Laughs” and “Rookie Blue” are competing with the best the world has to offer. The new CBC drama “The Romeo Section” was hyped on a giant billboard right across from the marketplace. Continue reading.

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Link: CBC: The election issue that wasn’t (but should have been)

From Simon Houpt of the Globe and Mail:

CBC: The election issue that wasn’t (but should have been)
It is a Dickensian democratic conundrum: Election campaigns are both the best of times and the worst of times to talk about political issues. On the one hand, millions of people take time out from their busy lives for a heated national conversation about their collective future; on the other hand, most of the conversation ends up being about money. If politics used to be the art of the possible, it’s become the art of the pecuniary. Don’t know what I mean? Take the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation … “Please!” Continue reading.

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Link: CBC fall schedule proves ever-beleaguered public broadcaster has plenty to live for

From David Berry of the National Post:

CBC fall schedule proves ever-beleaguered public broadcaster has plenty to live for
The debut of the self-consciously steamy Romeo Section this past Wednesday marked the last premiere of the CBC’s major fall programming, though the degree to which you’re aware of that fact may depend largely on how closely you pay attention to bus shelter ads. What precisely the CBC is doing, particularly on its primetime television schedule, doesn’t often impinge on Canadians’ group consciousness, unless and until someone needs a convenient drum to bang on about why the network shouldn’t have funding or where the good Canadian television shows are. Continue reading.

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