Sara Alessi

Principal photography has started on Incendo’s movie Thicker Than Water, which is being directed by Caroline Labrèche.

The Cartel is launching Cartel Pictures Canada to bolster its independent and TV production business in Winnipeg.

Gave Lindo has been appointed as the executive director of OTT programming at CBC.

Rogers Documentary and Cable Network Fund has confirmed equity investments for 19 TV projects totaling C$4.7 million ($3.5 million).

The Canada Media Fund (CMF) and Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (MBB) have re-upped their incentive for the co-development and co-production of digital media projects between Canadian producers and their German counterparts based in Berlin-Brandenburg.

The Canada Media Fund (CMF) and the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) have reopened the Canada-Ireland Co-Development Incentive for Audiovisual Projects, now in its third consecutive year.

Principal photography has started for Incendo’s newest thriller Radio Silence, starring Georgina Haig (The Crossing) and directed by Philippe Gagnon.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has approved an application by WOW! Unlimited Media Networks to acquire from Bell Media the Comedy Gold channel, which it will revamp to focus on programming for youngsters.

The Canada Media Fund (CMF) and the Danish Film Institute (DFI) have re-upped their incentive for the co-development of digital media projects between Canadian and Danish producers.

Super Channel will undergo a transformation on June 4, 2018, with an overall corporate rebrand and the repositioning and reprogramming of two of its channels.