January 11th, 2012
By Cynthia Littleton for
Variety
Barely 3 years old, the Los Angeles-based TV arm of indie Entertainment One has made a mark in the network and cable biz by bringing to the table that most precious commodity: financing.
eOne Television, headed by CEO John Morayniss, leverages its heft as a producer and distrib of film, TV and home entertainment fare in Canada, the U.K. and other territories to cobble together coin for TV series in the same way that many indie features are funded, through a combo of foreign pre-sales ...
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December 15th, 2011
Catherine Warren blogs for
The Huffington Post, where her article first appeared.
What can the mass media 1 percent learn from the digital 99 percent?
While big media and other critics slam Occupy Wall Street for lacking a cohesive message, the movement continues to just get on with things, including its own media, innovating in the process and providing a case-study for excellence in editorial, production and broadcasting.
If TV execs aren’t taking notes, they would be wise to get out their stenographers, because now’s a great time to mimeograph a digital ...
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November 13th, 2011
Catherine Warren blogs for
The Huffington Post, where her article first appeared.
Help me out, here.
When will digital media shareholders, investors and boards look at the case for female leadership on its merits and stop with the painful status quo contortions required to keep women out of top roles?
What’s it going to take when, faced with hard data, these decision makers persist in making limp calls?
[caption id="attachment_42398" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Original cartoon by Catherine Warren, image from Huffington Post/Getty Image photo, cartoonized by Befunky."]
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October 25th, 2011
Toronto, ON (October 25, 2011) - In pure evil preparation for the Season 2 launch of the original scripted series Todd & The Book of Pure Evil on SPACE, the twisted minds behind the show have created a new online game. "Descent Into Crowley Heights" unleashes more of the Book's evil power on computer screens at
toddandthebookofpureevil.com and on
Facebook pages.
"Descent Into Crowley Heights" is a web-based, side-scrolling game that takes players through the world of Todd & The Book of Pure Evil, playing as one ...
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October 5th, 2011
By Emily Wexler for Strategy Online.
CTV’s spectacular SuperBodies
Inspired by the forensic animation on the show CSI, SuperBodies was first introduced during the 2010 Olympic Games as a series of two-minute vignettes exploring the anatomy of elite athletes.
In February 2011, Discovery Canada aired a new incarnation – a 60-minute documentary that further explored the impact of competitive winter sports on the bodies of elite athletes.
In partnership with CTV Olympics and the Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund, an educational game app was created to support the doc. With 3D animation and ...
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