From Bill Harris of the Toronto Sun:

• Coldplay under Strombo’s hot gaze
  “Chris Martin of Coldplay isn’t afraid of some cold self-analysis. Martin and his world-famous British band get the full hour-long treatment tonight on The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos (CBC, CBC Newsworld). Coldplay granted unprecedented access to Stroumboulopoulos, who visited the band in England.” Read more.

From AWN:

• Kim Cattrall Added To Canadian Animated Sitcom Voice Cast
  “Kim Cattrall has signed on as the voice of Dee in the highly anticipated animated sitcom PRODUCING PARKER, slated to premiere in spring 2009 on E! in Canada. The announcement was made Thursday by Kevin Gillis, Ira Levy and Peter Williamson, the Executive Producers at Breakthrough Animation.” Read more.

From Alex Strachan of CanWest News Service:

• My turn on CBC: Double the Jeopardy!, double the entertainment, I say.
  “Could there be a bigger non-story in this country right now than CBC’s decision to air Jeopardy! five nights a week, and hold the one-night-a-week Marketplace back until January. Yes, yes, I know. Chances are, you’ve never heard of Marketplace, let alone watched. Welcome to North American network television in the 21st century.” Read more.

From a media release:

Sports fans of all ages finally have a chance to bring their A-game to a high stakes event that pits athletes against couch potatoes against NHL mascots in a new, no-holds-barred contest. CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada’s Ron MacLean joins host Wendy Mesley to stick-handle Canada’s largest sports trivia event TEST THE NATION: SPORTS, bringing two hours of non-stop, wall-to-wall suspense—and fun—to CBC Television, Sunday, May 25, at 8 p.m.

Don Cherry also makes a colourful guest appearance, delivering one of the 50 trivia questions from Coach’s Corner. This fourth and most unpredictable instalment of TEST THE NATION separates the champs from the chumps; viewers will find out who has really come to play in this wild world of sports—and we mean wild!

Continue reading Test the Nation this Sunday →

From a media release:

Canadian Publishing’s Favourite Squirrel Leaps to the Small Screen and Beyond

Corus Entertainment today announced plans to develop its highly successful book series Scaredy Squirrel, by bestselling author and illustrator Mélanie Watt, into a multi-media entertainment property.

The scope of this multiplatform venture, which is a collaboration between the company’s book division Kids Can Press, Nelvana Studios and Nelvana Enterprises divisions, includes plans to publish additional titles in the series, produce a television series, develop animated shorts for on-air, online and on-mobile distribution and launch an international merchandise and licensing program for the series.

Continue reading Scaredy Squirrel coming to TV →