TORONTO -- CanWest Global Communications Corp. on Thursday named Kenton Boston as senior executive producer of nightly flagship newscast Global National with Kevin Newman and news specials. The appointment comes a day after longtime CanWest Global executive Peter Viner replaced former Sony executive Rick Camilleri as president and CEO of CanWest MediaWorks, CanWest Global's Canadian broadcast arm. Boston first joined Global National in February after he was poached from CTV, where he was a senior producer on the Canada AM morning show.
TORONTO -- Canadian TV network CTV defended itself Thursday against charges from actor Bruce Greenwood that it had "buried" a homegrown TV movie in which he starred in a poorly viewed holiday weekend slot. "We're confident that the scheduling of this movie ('The Life') on Sunday, Sept. 5, at 9 p.m., will deliver the optimum audience for this fine movie," CTV programmers said in a statement. That defense followed Greenwood ending a promotional interview Wednesday on Canada AM, CTV's flagship morning news magazine series, saying that "CTV chose to bury ('The Life') on a holiday weekend where it's not going to be seen."...
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