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Sphere Media
Sphere Media is a Canadian film and television production and distribution company based in Montreal, Quebec. History Sphere Media was founded in 1984 by Jean Rémillard. Initially named Groupe Télé-Vision Inc., the company was sold in 2010 to Bruno Dubé and partners, and renamed DATSIT Studios, in 2012. It was renamed DATSIT Sphere in 2017 after acquiring Sphere Media Plus, founded by Jocelyn Deschênes. The company subsequently acquired other smaller studios, including Nicole Robert's Go Films in 2018, Oasis Animation and Quiet Motion in 2019, Bristow Global Media in 2020, and Sienna Films in 2020. In June 2020, DATSIT Sphere announced its rebranding as Sphere Media. Later the same year, the president of Sphere Media, Bruno Dubé, was named "Dealmaker of the Year" by Playback magazine for the acquisitions of BGM and Sienna Films during 2020. In January 2022, Sphere Media announced the acquisition Montreal-based animation studio Sardine Productions, founded in 2002 by Ghi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Privately Held Company
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose Stock, shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in their respective listed markets. Instead, the Private equity, company's stock is offered, owned, traded or exchanged privately, also known as "over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter". Related terms are unlisted organisation, unquoted company and private equity. Private companies are often less well-known than their public company, publicly traded counterparts but still have major importance in the world's economy. For example, in 2008, the 441 list of largest private non-governmental companies by revenue, largest private companies in the United States accounted for $1.8 trillion in revenues and employed 6.2 million people, according to ''Forbes''. In general, all companies that are not owned by the government are classified as private enterprises. This definition encompasses both publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cover Girl (TV Series)
''Cover Girl'' is a Canadian French language television sitcom, which aired on Télévision de Radio-Canada, Radio-Canada in 2005."Cover Girl is no reality show". ''Montreal Gazette'', January 8, 2005. Created and written by Richard Blaimert, the series revolved around three drag queens sharing ownership of Cover Girl, a gay nightclub and drag cabaret in downtown Montreal. The series premiered in the winter of the 2004-05 television season, and was renewed for a second season which aired in fall 2005, for a total of 26 episodes. One of Quebec's most noted drag queens, Mado Lamotte, criticized the show as unrealistic. The series garnered several Gemeaux Award nominations in 2006, including Best Comedy Series and nods for René Richard Cyr and Vincent Bolduc as Best Actor in a Comedy Series."A fine list of Gemeaux nominees". ''Montreal Gazette'', October 20, 2006. Cast * René Richard Cyr - Mathieu Picard/Veronica Sinclair * Vincent Bolduc - Justin Pearson-Faucher-Brodeur/Joujou Vel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bad Blood (TV Series)
''Bad Blood'' is a Canadian crime drama television series created and produced by Simon Barry. The show premiered on Citytv on September 21, 2017. The series ran for two seasons totaling 14 episodes until November 29, 2018. A French-language version of the show premiered on November 11, 2017 on Ici Radio-Canada Télé under the title ''Les liens du sang''. Initially intended as a miniseries, it was renewed by Rogers Media for a second season in March 2018, which was broadcast on Citytv and FX Canada. The first season is a dramatization of the rise and fall of the real-life Rizzuto crime family, a Montreal-based organized crime family, and is based on the 2015 book ''Business or Blood: Mafia Boss Vito Rizzuto's Last War'' by Antonio Nicaso and Peter Edwards. The second season departs from the book and is fully fictional. The Rizzuto crime family consists of crime boss Vito Rizzuto (Anthony LaPaglia), high-ranking member Declan Gardiner (Kim Coates), consigliere Bruno Bonsignor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ransom (TV Series)
''Ransom'' is an internationally co-produced drama television series created by David Vainola and produced by Frank Spotnitz, starring Luke Roberts, that began airing on CBS. Ordered straight-to-series with 13 episodes on June 6, 2016, the series is a co-production between Canada's Global, France's TF1, the United States' CBS, and Germany's RTL, while the latter is airing the series on its sister network VOX. The series premiered on Global and CBS on January 1, 2017. On May 17, 2017, CBS announced that ''Ransom'' was cancelled in the United States. A day later, RTLGroup also reported that they left the project after low ratings in Germany. It was reported on the same day that the other broadcasters behind the series were attempting to fund a second season. In late June, various sources reported that Global and TF1 ordered a second season, to be produced without the former partners. Production was set to start in late July 2017. On October 10, 2017, CBS and Global officially ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This Life (2015 TV Series)
''This Life'' is a Canadian television drama series. It premiered on October 5, 2015 on CBC. The series is based on the French Canadian series '' Nouvelle adresse'', created by Richard Blaimert. On March 31, 2016 the CBC confirmed the series had been renewed for a second season, to premiere in fall 2016. The show was cancelled on January 24, 2017. Plot Focusing on Natalie Lawson, a lifestyle columnist and single mother in her early forties whose terminal cancer diagnosis sends her on a quest to help her three teenage children get ready for the future, while trying her best to live in the now. Cast * Torri Higginson as Natalie Lawson * Lauren Lee Smith as Maggie Lawson * Rick Roberts as Matthew Lawson * Kristopher Turner as Oliver Lawson *James Wotherspoon as Caleb Lawson *Stephanie Janusauskas as Emma Lawson *Julia Scarlett Dan as Romy Lawson * Peter MacNeill as Gerald Lawson * Janet-Laine Green as Janine Lawson * Marianne Farley as Nicole Breen * Rachael Crawford as Daniel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19-2 (2014 TV Series)
''19-2'' is a Television in Canada, Canadian police procedural crime drama television series developed by Bruce M. Smith, based on the French-Canadian, Canadian French-language 19-2 (2011 TV series), series of the same name created by Réal Bossé and Claude Legault. It was produced by Sphere Media and Echo Media, in association with Bell Media; Smith served as showrunner. The series premiered on Bravo (Canada), Bravo in Canada on January 29, 2014, and aired for three seasons, before it moved to CTV Television Network, CTV for its fourth and final season. It finished its four-year run on September 18, 2017, with 38 episodes. Set in Montreal, ''19-2'' follows the professional and personal lives of patrol officers from the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal, Montreal Police Service's Station 19, which covers an inner-city area of the city. The series' name comes from the callsign of the patrol car of the two main characters. Adrian Holmes and Jared Kees ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nouvelle Adresse
''Nouvelle adresse'' is a Canadian television drama series, which premiered in 2014 on Ici Radio-Canada Télé. Created by Richard Blaimert, the series focuses on Nathalie Lapointe (Macha Grenon), a single mother in her early forties whose terminal cancer diagnosis sends her on a quest to help her three teenage children get ready for the future. The series was subsequently adapted into English as '' This Life'', which premiered on CBC Television in 2015. The series garnered 17 Gémeaux Award nominations in 2015, including nods as Best Drama Series, Best Actress in a Drama Series (Grenon), Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (Patrick Hivon, Antoine Pilon, Pierre Curzi), Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series (Macha Limonchik, Muriel Dutil, Sophie Prégent) and Best Writing in a Drama Series (Blaimert)."Gemeaux voters side with the critics; Big hits Les beaux malaises and Nouvelle adresse lead nominations". ''Montreal Gazette'', June 17, 2015. Cast *Macha Grenon as Nathali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Titanic (2012 TV Series)
''Titanic'' is a four-part television serial and period drama written by Julian Fellowes. It is based on the passenger liner RMS ''Titanic'', which sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in April 1912 following a collision with an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. The series was created by producer Nigel Stafford-Clark and written by Julian Fellowes to mark the 100th anniversary of the maritime disaster on 15 April 1912. It sets out to paint a portrait of a whole society, telling the stories of a wide range of characters, both real and imagined, from every social level. Their narratives are developed and gradually interwoven over the first three episodes, each of which ends in a cliffhanger as the ship begins to founder. The fourth and final episode draws all of the different stories together and reveals to the audience who survives. ''Titanic'' was released in March and April 2012 for the disaster's centenary on 15 April 2012. It was one of two such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19-2 (2011 TV Series)
''19-2'' is a French-Canadian police drama television series. Set in Montreal, the show centres on the professional and personal lives of patrol officers from Poste 19 of the Service Police Metropolitan, a fictitious version of the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal. The series name comes from the call sign of the patrol car of the main characters.According to thSPVM SPVM Montreal Police site they have 33 stations, none of which are currently numbered #19. Th2001 Annual Reportshowed that the former SPCUM Montreal Police had a station 19 covering the downtown east side and Plateau Mont-Royal. The actors speak in Joual (Quebec French) and Quebec English. It aired on public broadcaster Radio-Canada starting in 2011 and concluded in 2015. An English-language adaptation premiered on Bravo on January 29, 2014, and concluded production in 2017. The fourth and final season of the English version premiered on CTV in Canada on July 31, 2017. Synopsis Nicolai "Nick" Berrof and his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Combat Hospital
''Combat Hospital'' is a medical drama television series, filmed in Toronto, that debuted on Global in Canada and ABC in the United States on June 21, 2011. Its final episode was broadcast on September 6, 2011. The series was known for a time by the working title ''The Hot Zone'' before reverting to its original title, ''Combat Hospital''. ABC announced on October 24, 2011, that it would not be renewing ''Combat Hospital'' for a second season. On December 16, 2011, Shaw Media confirmed that ''Combat Hospital'' would not be renewed for another season due to their inability to find a new broadcast partner after ABC had opted not to continue with the series earlier that fall. Plot Set in Kandahar, Afghanistan in 2006, the series revolves around the life and work of doctors and nurses from the International Security Assistance Force, specifically from Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, and other allied countries at a military hospital. Cast Main c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie (TV Series)
''Sophie'' is a Canadian television sitcom that aired on CBC from January 9, 2008, to March 23, 2009. It stars Natalie Brown as Sophie Parker, an unmarried single mother and talent agent. The show is an English-language adaptation of Télévision de Radio-Canada's show '' Les Hauts et les bas de Sophie Paquin''. The show was created by Richard Blaimert and its executive producer is Jocelyn Deschênes, the same creative team behind the original series. It was the CBC's second attempt in as many years to create an English adaptation of a successful series from its French sister network, following the less successful '' Rumours''. In February 2008, it was announced that the show had been bought by ABC Family, part of Disney–ABC Television Group in the United States. The network signed on for the first 13 episodes, as well as an option for the second season of the show. On March 27, 2009, the series was cancelled by CBC due to poor ratings. Characters * Sophie Parker ( Natalie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Hauts Et Les Bas De Sophie Paquin
''Les Hauts et les bas de Sophie Paquin'' (''The Highs and Lows of Sophie Paquin'') is a Canadian television comedy-drama series, which premiered on Radio-Canada in 2006. The show stars Suzanne Clément as Sophie Paquin, a single mother and businesswoman who operates her own talent agency. The cast also includes Éric Bernier, Élise Guilbault, Jean-Nicolas Verreault, Pauline Martin, Isabelle Vincent, Christiane Pasquier, Catherine De Léan, Danny Blanco Hall, François Létourneau and Anthony Lemke. The show was created by Richard Blaimert and its executive producer is Jocelyn Deschênes. In 2008, CBC Television began airing an English-language adaptation, ''Sophie Sophie is a feminine given name, another version of Sophia, from the Greek word for "wisdom". People with the name Born in the Middle Ages * Sophie, Countess of Bar (c. 1004 or 1018–1093), sovereign Countess of Bar and lady of Mousson * Soph ...'', which was also created by Blaimert and produced by Deschê ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |