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In the news: Brent Butt of Corner Gas

From Stephen Hunt of the Calgary Herald

  • Gassed up and ready to go: Butt has cornered the market on clean comedy
    “Brent Butt, the comedy kingpin behind Corner Gas–its star, director and writer–was, as fate would have it, born the same day (August 3, 1966) a comedy legend, Lenny Bruce, died. One (Bruce) famously profane, groundbreaking comic left us, and a kinder, gentler funnyman, who was honoured Monday at the Banff Television Festival for his career in comedy, arrived.” Read more.
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In the news: Toronto TV production picks up

From Rob Salem of the Toronto Star:

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Banff World Television Awards Focus On Shows Instead of Stars

Original to TV, eh?:

There’s no red carpet, no A-list celebrities dripping with borrowed jewels in haute couture, no online forums guessing winners, no widely televised ceremony. What the Banff World Television Awards do have is a truly international scope, with winners from countries including Liberia, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, Israel, South Africa, and more.

Presented at the Banff World Television Festival, the 29th annual Awards – popularly known as The Rockies — included a Lifetime Achievement award to BBC producer Jon Plowman (Extras) and the NBC Universal Canada Award of Distinction to actor Kim Cattrall (Sex and the City).

The Grand Prize went to HBO’s White Light/Black Rain: The destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Comedy award was given to Extras: Episode 9 – Daniel Radcliffe, airing on BBC and HBO, while Skins of the UK’s Channel 4 picked up the trophy for Continuing Series and A&E’s Intervention won for Reality Format Program.

Canadian shows pick up awards

National Geographic’s Ghosts of the Yangtze (Up the Yangtze) and Discovery Channel’s The Real Superhumans and the Quest for the Future Fantastic both won Best Canadian Program. How the Gimquat Found Her Song won in the Children’s Programs categry, while Odd Job Jack was rewarded for Interactive Program Enhancements and The Border: Interactive picked up the Mobile Programs and Enhancements award.

The Banff World Television Festival website has a full list of winners.

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Shopping Bags bag new series

From a media release:

W Network and Worldwide Bag Media Announce New Series, Anna and Kristina’s Grocery Bag

W Network, Canada’s No. 1 specialty channel for women, has partnered with Worldwide Bag Media to produce a new original series, Anna and Kristina’s Grocery Bag, featuring Anna Wallner and Kristina Matisic, the well-known hosts from the long-running and successful Canadian series The Shopping Bags. Anna and Kristina’s Grocery Bag is now in production in Vancouver, B.C., and will premiere in September on W Network.

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Teletoon picks 10 pilots

From a media release:

THE DETOUR ON TELETOON PILOT PROJECT GREENLIGHTS TEN PILOTS FOR PRODUCTION

After considering 200 submissions from across Canada, ten titles have been selected for The Detour on TELETOON Pilot Project, the initiative launched September, 2007 to find new and irreverent comedies for the popular evening programming block aimed at audiences aged 18 to 34. Part of the network’s commitment to the Canadian animation industry, the pilots will air on both English and French networks in spring 2009 and will give producers a finished pilot available for the international marketplace.

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