EXCLUSIVE: The Toronto International Film Festival is going deeper into TV and making Primetime bigger. The Festival has a TV section called Primetime and TIFF execs told Deadline they plan to increase the selection by 40% for 2026.

Appropriately, the news came out of MIPCOM , the Cannes TV market that’s running this week. The setting was fitting, as TIFF was on the ground meeting the TV industry ahead of next year’s launch of TIFF: The Market.

TIFF and Deadline hosted a networking reception with buyers and distributors and we caught up with the TIFF execs in town, Judy Lung VP , Strategy, Communications & Stakeholder Relations and Geoff Macnaughton, VP of Industry and Theatrical Programming.

Macnaughton told us that the Primetime section he oversees will expand by 40%, featu

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