Of the 21 projects receiving production grants from the October 1 round of applications to the Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund, half are aimed at the kids demo.
Read MoreTeletoon is getting ready to add some personality – and its very first personality – as Teletoon at Night launches this Sunday evening at 10 p.m.
Read MoreIf viewers can watch upcoming obstacle course series Splatalot and feel like they can put themselves in the shoes of the contestants, Mark Bishop will be a happy man.
Read MoreMipcom is just a week away and two Toronto prodcos are heading to the market with a new animated comedy series based on the book by Goosebumps creator R.L. Stine.
Read MoreGraham Maycock of Orangeville walks threw the doors of the blue mythical castle built on a 50-acre piece of land in Amaranth, shakes his fist at the cameras and belts out his war cry, “Fist pump. Fist Pump. Yeah.”
Read MoreGemini Award nominations are nothing new to Rothesay brothers Matt and Mark Bishop.
In the last decade they've each enjoyed several nods at the Gemini Awards - which honours the best in Canadian television each year - but have yet to take a prize home.
Read MoreTeletoon Canada has announced its fall 2010 lineup for Teletoon, Teletoon at Night and Teletoon Retro. Launching on September 6, Teletoon's new slate features a host of acquired series, big ticket movies and original series.
Read MoreToronto prodco marblemedia and Calgary's SEVEN24 Films have formed a new company, Distribution360, under former Joost/Alliance Atlantis VP Stéphanie Röckmann-Portier. The new distributor will be platform agnostic, and concentrate on children's, youth, drama and factual programming.
Read MoreBroadcasters in the UK, Canada and Australia are onboard a new physical gameshow that newly launched sales outfit Distribution360 has unveiled here in the Canadian Rockies.
Read MoreCoined by MIT professor Henry Jenkins in his 2006 book Convergence Culture, the term “transmedia storytelling” involves an evolving narrative told across multiple media platforms, playing to each channel’s strength, and each one contributing to create a story world larger than the sum of its parts.
Read More"Transmedia is not just about buying ads on multiple platforms."
Those words were from Columbia journalism professor Dr. Adam Klein in the first few minutes of his keynote presentation at yesterday's Understanding Youth conference in Toronto, presented by strategy magazine.
Read MoreTeletoon reports it is stoked about its new interactive website, designed to support and promote its TV series, Stoked Interactive.
Read MoreDemonstrating marblemedia’s gold medal talent at the 2010 Cultural Olympiad, the award-winning production company announced today that it will be a contributing artist to the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad Digital Edition (CODE).
Read Moremarblemedia today announced that a third season of the smash-hit children’s television series Taste Buds has been green-lit by TVOntario for a spring start of production.
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