The Blue Ant founder and CEO and former Alliance Atlantis chief rang the bell earlier this month on the Toronto Stock Exchange. His company’s reverse takeover of Boat Rocker delivered more Canadian content — including top-rated The Amazing Race Canada — to a diverse portfolio MacMillan already successfully shops around the world. You’d think he’d be exhausted
Coming the morning after the opening night of the Toronto International Film Festival, the Hollywood Suite breakfast is considered the opening social mixer of the fest. The 11th annual gathering on the top floor ballroom of the Omni King Edward Hotel was packed with industry folks. The press hounds, of course, made a beeline straight
The last of the Canadian upfronts took place Wednesday in Toronto as Blue Ant took centre stage. The presentation was at the Royal Ontario Museum, a fitting venue given that the Smithsonian Channel is among Blue Ant’s specialty holdings. As is the practice now, the network tipped their new programming initiatives ahead of their presentation.
Last year I had the pleasure of moderating a panel at Prime Time in Ottawa, an annual Canadian TV industry pow-wow in our nation’s capital. Michael Hennessy and the folks at the Canadian Media Production Association host a gathering of 600 or so producers, broadcast executives, lobbyists and others who basically travel from all across