Top Stories

TORONTO: The Canadian streaming service shomi is closing down operations as of November 30.

BURBANK: James Andrews has been promoted to the director of sales for Canada at Warner Bros. International Television Distribution.

TORONTO: Breakthrough Entertainment has appointed veteran kids' television executive Caroline Tyre as its senior director of international sales and acquisitions.

BURBANK: BUZZR, a vintage game-show network owned by FremantleMedia North America, is slated to become available on YES TV in Canada.

MONTREAL: Principal photography has commenced on Incendo's latest thriller Early Release, directed by John L’Écuyer (Curtis’s Charm, Saint-Jude, The Riverbank, In God’s Country).

TORONTO: The Canada Media Fund (CMF) has awarded more than C$4.7 million ($3.6 million) in development and marketing support to innovative digital media projects as part of the first round of its 2016-17 Experimental Stream funding.

TORONTO: Bell Media's CraveTV has commissioned a third season of Letterkenny, a half-hour small-town comedy produced by New Metric Media in partnership with DHX Media.

TORONTO: Tricon Films & Television has inked international sales for more than 100 hours of scripted, lifestyle and documentary programming, including the drama series Hard Rock Medical.

TORONTO: A series of organizational changes are being implemented across the senior leadership at Bell Media, including Randy Lennox becoming the president of broadcasting and content.

MONTREAL: Principal photography has begun on Incendo’s film Girls’ Night Out, which is being directed by Philippe Gagnon.