VisionTV has lined up a series of movies to honour Remembrance Day – Paths of Glory – a Stanley Kubrick adaptation of Humphrey Cobb’s novel that follows a French general as he launches an assault on a German stronghold (airing Tuesday, November 9, 8 p.m.) and Hope and Glory a two-hour feature by John Boorman, a semi-autobiographical recollection of one family’s experience during the London blitz (airing Tuesday, November 11, 8 p.m.).
An encore presentation of The War Brides: From Romance to Reality narrated by Pamela Wallin will be airing Tuesday, November 9 at 10 p.m. and repeating on Friday, November 12 at 10 p.m.

To keep the hockey puck sliding, TSN is televising NHL on TSN: Canada Cup Classic games on Tuesday nights at 7:30 p.m. and NHL on TSN: Wednesday Night Classic Hockey every Wednesday evening at 7:30 p.m.

Ten celebrity advocates slated to debate in the upcoming CBC TV series The Greatest Canadian will be partnered with one of the Top Ten ‘greats’ (nominated by the public) and get an hour to present their program – which they hope will convince viewers to vote for their nominee.

Bob Geldof recently expanded his entertainment realm via prodco acquisitions, and now his UK-based factual outfit Ten Alps Communications has optioned its first format into the U.S. market. The format, Celebrity Court, will be adapted for the U.S. by FremantleMedia North America (the American Idol folks), where there is bound to be lots of fodder for this inevitable hybrid.

The hour-long drama Kink in My Hair, one of the winning projects from VisionTV’s cultural diversity drama competition, follows a strong-willed single mother who presides over the stylists and patrons at a popular hair salon found in Toronto’s Caribbean neighbourhood. The special airs Tuesday, November 23 at 10 p.m.
St. Jamestown, the first of the winning projects from VisionTV aired in October and the third and final project, Hotel Babylon, is currently in production and is slated for broadcast on Tuesday, January 25 at 10 p.m.

Could an edgy show with lots of sex and swearing, ample nudity and four really hot women help boost homegrown television? Two of the country’s top producers think so and have come together on a gritty, new HBO-style comedy.

The Thursday October 7 Survivor:Vanuatu episode drew close to two million viewers nationally in the 18 to 49 year old bracket, with a total 2+ audience of 3.036 million. According to BBM people meter data, the fourth episode earned a 11.1 rating (among (18-49 yr olds) in the Toronto market and in Vancouver it garnered a 17.9 rating.

Space has launched their Fall out-of-home multi-media campaign, which includes Flashmedia, transit shelters and billboards. This marks the first time CityTV has used Flashmedia – a network of 15,000 street level posters on convenience stores across the country – to hit their young, urban demographic.

This November sees Teletoon launch a bevy of new series and presentations – like 6Teen. It premieres on Sunday November 7 at 6 p.m. (which is its regular timeslot). The series is set entirely in a gigantic shopping mall, and follows six 16-year-old friends as they experience their ‘firsts.’ Another launch, The Batman, which follows the crime fighting caped crusader, premieres Saturday November 6 at 11 a.m. (with a regular timeslot of Sat/Sun at 11 a.m).
Teletoon special presentation Th-Th-That’s not all folks: Six Hour Looney Tunes Marathon airs Saturday November 13 (1-7 p.m.), while My Little Pony – Dancing in the Clouds airs Mondays and Fridays at 3 p.m. from November 15 to December 12.
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CBC has a new MOW in production with Vancouver’s Force Four Productions. A Love Story, a $3.7-million production (which is also known as Murder Unveiled and will likely go through another name change) is a tragic Punjabi love story inspired by actual headlines. In the story, a Canadian Punjabi woman travels to India and falls in love with a man outside her caste, defying her orthodox family who takes out a contract to kill her. The CBC MOW will air in 2005.
Courtesy of our sister publication Playback (October 11)

CTV has a new MOW in production called A Friend of the Family. Alberta Filmworks is coproducing the $4-million TV movie with Toronto’s Slanted Wheel Entertainment, for delivery February 11. Laura Harris (24, Dead Like Me), Eric Johnson (Smallville) and Kim Coates (Pearl Harbor) star in the story about notorious rapist and murderer David Snow.
Courtesy of our sister publication Playback (October 11)