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HBO takes big fiction prizes in first night of Banff television awards
Monday June 14th 2010BANFF, Alta. – The biting comedy “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and the drama “In Treatment” have won two big fiction prizes at the Banff World Television Awards. The two HBO series were among the winners in the first of five ceremonies honouring the best in fiction, non-fiction, film, special achievement and[…]
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Banff TV producers eye ways to woo viewers
Monday June 14th 2010Nathan Mayfield, founder of Australian cross-platform producer Hoodlum, recently took a phone call from a North American broadcaster asking him to locate and recapture lost TV audiences online. “He said, ‘Our TV show just went to air, we’ve lost half the audience, and I can’t find them elsewhere in the ratings,’ ” he recalls.
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Quebecor planning 24-hour right-leaning network
Friday June 11th 2010Quebec billionaire Pierre Karl Peladeau is attempting a major shakeup of television news in Canada, with plans to launch a 24-hour cable channel modelled on the right-leaning U.S. network Fox News. It is a shot aimed directly at CBC and CTV, which for years have dominated the all-news format in[…]
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Does movie marketing matter?
Friday June 11th 2010When a movie hits big, almost no one cares what was spent; when a release fails to make opening-weekend estimates or has a 60% drop-off during its second week, everyone begins pointing fingers. Consider MGM’s $30 million to tub-thump “Hot Tub Time Machine,” which cost about $35 million to make: First-week gross was $20 million, dropping 60% the following week and winding up with $50 million in domestic gross.
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Where’s the drama in the Canadian television industry?
Thursday June 10th 2010It’s a wrap. Canada’s homegrown, privately owned broadcast networks have unveiled their schedules for fall and, once again, media analysts and cultural critics are pondering the same old questions. A demonstration by the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists outside Global TV’s upfront presentation last week carped on a familiar theme: “Why are the Canadian networks spending all that money on U.S. programming again?” And its corollary question: “Why are the Canadian networks spending so little on homegrown scripted drama and comedy?”
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Archives for: June 20105
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HBO takes big fiction prizes in first night of Banff television awards
Monday June 14th 2010BANFF, Alta. – The biting comedy “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and the drama “In Treatment” have won two big fiction prizes at the Banff World Television Awards. The two HBO series were among the winners in the first of five ceremonies honouring the best in fiction, non-fiction, film, special achievement and[…]
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Banff TV producers eye ways to woo viewers
Monday June 14th 2010Nathan Mayfield, founder of Australian cross-platform producer Hoodlum, recently took a phone call from a North American broadcaster asking him to locate and recapture lost TV audiences online. “He said, ‘Our TV show just went to air, we’ve lost half the audience, and I can’t find them elsewhere in the ratings,’ ” he recalls.
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Quebecor planning 24-hour right-leaning network
Friday June 11th 2010Quebec billionaire Pierre Karl Peladeau is attempting a major shakeup of television news in Canada, with plans to launch a 24-hour cable channel modelled on the right-leaning U.S. network Fox News. It is a shot aimed directly at CBC and CTV, which for years have dominated the all-news format in[…]
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Does movie marketing matter?
Friday June 11th 2010When a movie hits big, almost no one cares what was spent; when a release fails to make opening-weekend estimates or has a 60% drop-off during its second week, everyone begins pointing fingers. Consider MGM’s $30 million to tub-thump “Hot Tub Time Machine,” which cost about $35 million to make: First-week gross was $20 million, dropping 60% the following week and winding up with $50 million in domestic gross.
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Where’s the drama in the Canadian television industry?
Thursday June 10th 2010It’s a wrap. Canada’s homegrown, privately owned broadcast networks have unveiled their schedules for fall and, once again, media analysts and cultural critics are pondering the same old questions. A demonstration by the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists outside Global TV’s upfront presentation last week carped on a familiar theme: “Why are the Canadian networks spending all that money on U.S. programming again?” And its corollary question: “Why are the Canadian networks spending so little on homegrown scripted drama and comedy?”
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Archives for: June 20105
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HBO takes big fiction prizes in first night of Banff television awards
Monday June 14th 2010BANFF, Alta. – The biting comedy “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and the drama “In Treatment” have won two big fiction prizes at the Banff World Television Awards. The two HBO series were among the winners in the first of five ceremonies honouring the best in fiction, non-fiction, film, special achievement and[…]
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Banff TV producers eye ways to woo viewers
Monday June 14th 2010Nathan Mayfield, founder of Australian cross-platform producer Hoodlum, recently took a phone call from a North American broadcaster asking him to locate and recapture lost TV audiences online. “He said, ‘Our TV show just went to air, we’ve lost half the audience, and I can’t find them elsewhere in the ratings,’ ” he recalls.
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Quebecor planning 24-hour right-leaning network
Friday June 11th 2010Quebec billionaire Pierre Karl Peladeau is attempting a major shakeup of television news in Canada, with plans to launch a 24-hour cable channel modelled on the right-leaning U.S. network Fox News. It is a shot aimed directly at CBC and CTV, which for years have dominated the all-news format in[…]
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Does movie marketing matter?
Friday June 11th 2010When a movie hits big, almost no one cares what was spent; when a release fails to make opening-weekend estimates or has a 60% drop-off during its second week, everyone begins pointing fingers. Consider MGM’s $30 million to tub-thump “Hot Tub Time Machine,” which cost about $35 million to make: First-week gross was $20 million, dropping 60% the following week and winding up with $50 million in domestic gross.
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Where’s the drama in the Canadian television industry?
Thursday June 10th 2010It’s a wrap. Canada’s homegrown, privately owned broadcast networks have unveiled their schedules for fall and, once again, media analysts and cultural critics are pondering the same old questions. A demonstration by the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists outside Global TV’s upfront presentation last week carped on a familiar theme: “Why are the Canadian networks spending all that money on U.S. programming again?” And its corollary question: “Why are the Canadian networks spending so little on homegrown scripted drama and comedy?”
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