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The Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA) is calling on the country’s government to reject a regulator decision to renew pubcaster CBC/Radio-Canada’s license for another five years and reassess its content before approval. The body claims the renewal decision eliminates a “key license condition” that ensures the…

François Arnaud (Surface, Midnight Texas), Josh Close (Monica, Fargo) and Troian Bellisario (Pretty Little Liars) will be joining the CBC original drama series Plan B, set for a winter 2023 debut. The series stars Patrick J. Adams as Philip (Suits, The Right Stuff) and Karine Vanasse as Evelyn…

Adorable Canadian preschool series Mittens & Pants has been snapped up by Sky UK, with Thunderbird Distribution taking global media and consumer products rights. The CBC Kids live action series follows best friends Mitten the kitten and Pants the puppy as they head out on adventures in their hometown of Kibble…

Catherine Reitman’s Workin’ Moms is coming to an end. The hit comedy series, which airs on CBC in Canada and streams on Netflix, has been renewed for a seventh and final season. Creator and executive producer Reitman, who also stars in the lead role of Kate Foster, announced today that the seventh season will be its…

The end of the final full day of the 2022 Banff World Media Festival saw the Canadian confab reward barrier-breaking projects and honor a departed genius. Tonight's Rockie Awards Gala handed out the Program of the Year Award and the Grand Jury Prize to CBC sitcom Sort Of and Channel 4's Jodie Comer-Stephen Graham…

EXCLUSIVE: Anthony Q. Farrell, who was among the writers of NBC sitcom The Office, has been tapped as showrunner for season two of CBC comedy Run the Burbs. Farrell, who was recently handed the 2022 Showrunner Award by the Writers Guild of Canada, will replace season one showrunner Shebli Zarghami on the show, which…

Marti Noxon & Frank Doegler Among Showrunner Speakers For Series Mania And Beta's Seriesmakers Initiative As It Opens For Submissions Series Mania Forum and European content powerhouse Beta Group have opened their €120,000 Seriesmakers initiative for submissions and unveiled several high-profile speakers for its…

Catherine Tait is unusually open and candid for the head of a major public broadcaster. She’s also not afraid of whimsy — at one point in an exclusive chat with Deadline stopping mid-sentence to exclaim the beauty of a hummingbird that’s flown onto windowsill of her LA hotel room. The exec is President and CEO of <a href="https://deadline.com/tag/cbc/" id="auto-tag_cbc_7"…

EXCLUSIVE: Patrick J. Adams (Suits) and Karine Vanasse (Cardinal) have been cast as the leads in an English-language adaptation of time travel drama Plan B for Canada’s CBC. Adapted from the Radio-Canada French-language drama created by Jean-François Asselin and Jacques Drolet and set in Montreal, Plan B is billed as…

EXCLUSIVE: Canada’s CBC and the UK’s BBC are jointly working up a trio of podcasts, including one in which Game of Thrones actress Oona Chaplin explores J. Edgar Hoover’s campaign to root out Communism in Hollywood and his obsession with her grandfather, silent movie star Charlie Chaplin. The project, from CBC…

EXCLUSIVE: Canadian comedy Son of a Critch is returning for a second season. CBC has renewed the series for its sophomore run after its debut in January. The public broadcaster noted that the half-hour series scored its highest rating for a comedy premiere since Kim's Convenience debuted in October 2016. The series…

HBO Max and CBC have ordered a second season of the critically praised comedy series Sort Of. An official selection of the 2021 Toronto Film Festival, the series debuted on HBO Max in November, a month after its Canadian premiere on CBC Gem. Created by showrunners Bilal Baig (Acha Bacha), who also stars, and Fab…