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CTV Signs So You Think You Can Dance Canada Deal

From a CTV media release:

DanceGet your dancing shoes on Canada – So You Think You Can Dance is coming your way. Canada’s No. 1 broadcaster, CTV, together with 19 Entertainment, Ltd and dick clark productions, announced today it will develop, produce and broadcast So You Think You Can Dance Canada, an all-new Canadian version of the hit international series. In the latest deal for CTV at MIPCOM, the Canadian format rights to the series were secured from 19 Entertainment, Ltd. and dick clark productions, co-owners of the format. The deal was completed in Cannes, France today between Susanne Boyce, President, Creative, Content and Channels, CTV Inc. and 19 Entertainment’s Simon Fuller, creator of the series. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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In the news: Bruce Kirkby of No Opportunity Wasted

From Bruce Kirkby, host of No Opportunity Wasted, in the National Post:

  • NOW2Extreme hiding
    “Started the day struggling to hide behind a skinny tree outside a Winnipeg church, along with a television production crew, all strangers to me! We were on high alert; lying in wait for our first ambush– and the kick-off to production of No Opportunity Wasted.” Read more.

Photo courtesy CBC: Bruce Kirkby, Canadian guide of No Opportunity Wasted.

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Across the River to Motor City reviews

From a Devine Entertainment media release:

ATRDevine Entertainment Corporation, capitalizing on the global distribution of award-winning original film and television content, has announced growing recognition by leading publications regarding the Company’s soon-to-premiere primetime television series, “Across the River to Motor City,” signaling further progress in Devine’s strategy to develop new films and television content to address untapped revenue opportunities in the entertainment marketplace.

Three of Canada’s leading newspapers, “The National Post,” “The Globe and Mail” and “The Toronto Star,” have reported on or reviewed Devine’s upcoming film-noir miniseries, “Across the River to Motor City.” The series, Devine’s first foray into the primetime television marketplace, is scheduled to premiere in November.

Photo credit: Russ Martin. Charlotte Sullivan and David Fox in Across the River to Motor City.

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