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EDMONTON: Super Channel has hired Melissa Kajpust as its head of creative development, effective May 15. In her new role, Kajpust will work out of Toronto under Malcolm Knox, the president and COO of Super Channel. She will be responsible for managing a team of development execs to invest the …

TORONTO: Breakthrough Entertainment has purchased Joker Films, an independent film sales, packaging and production company. Joker Films' entire catalogue will join the Breakthrough Entertainment portfolio. This includes The Lifeguard, starring Kristen Bell and Martin Starr; That Burning Feeling, featuring John Cho and Paulo Costanzo; Daydream Nation, led by Josh Lucas; …

TORONTO: Among the series picked up by CTV for its 2014-15 prime-time schedule are Gotham, Shonda Rhimes' How to Get Away with Murder and the Arrow companion series The Flash. CTV also secured the new Captain America spin-off Marvel's Agent Carter, the cyber-crime procedural CSI: Cyber, the drama American Crime …

TORONTO: Breakthrough Entertainment and Chad Archibald's Black Fawn Films have signed a production agreement that sees the companies producing eight genre features over the next 24 months. Archibald, an acclaimed horror filmmaker, is on board for two of the movies, while Cody Calahan (Antisocial) will direct another two titles. The …

OTTAWA/GATINEAU: The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has released the 2014 financial results for specialty, pay, pay-per-view and video-on-demand television services, which saw revenues increase by 3.1 percent last year. In 2014, revenues from these services reached C$4.2 billion ($3.4 billion), up from the prior year's C$4.1 billion ($3.3 …

TORONTO: CraveTV, the SVOD service that is currently only available to subscribers of select pay-TV providers, will be offered directly to Canadian consumers beginning January 1. The platform is at the moment accessible to customers of Bell, Eastlink and Telus, among others, delivering more than 1,300 TV titles to subscribers. Bell …

MONTREAL: Quebecor Content has tied up with Sony Pictures Television Canada in a long-term multiplatform agreement that sees a range of series and films becoming available through Club illico and TVA Group in French Canada. The deal sees Club illico offering a selection of Sony Picture Television's French content on …

TORONTO: Peace Point Rights has secured several sales, totaling 100-plus hours, for titles such as Bake with Anna Olson from its food, documentary and scripted libraries. Hotel Hungaria in Belgium picked up the format rights to the food show Food Truck Face Off, while Scripps Networks International (EMEA) signed on for seasons one and …

MONTREAL: Stingray Digital Group is acquiring all of the issued and outstanding shares in the share capital of Brava NL, Brava HD and DJAZZ.tv, a trio of thematic television channels featuring high-end music and cultural content. The all-cash transaction, which is expected to be finalized in the coming weeks, includes …

TORONTO: Fairfax Financial Holdings has secured a majority stake in Orphan Black producer Temple Street Productions, which plans to use the capital to expand content production and distribution operations as well as to explore acquisitions. Co-presidents David Fortier and Ivan Schneeberg, along with managing director John Young, will all continue …