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Is it just me or are those BBM Canada Portable People Meter numbers starting to come back down to earth a bit? The high scores for Tuesday and Wednesday all seem a tad off from where they were just a few weeks ago.Take the Top 3 shows in Canada for this Wednesday, for example:Criminal Minds

Spoke Tuesday in Toronto with Kelly Blatz (right), who stars Friday in the shot-in-Toronto Disney XD sci-fi TV-movie Skyrunner (premiering Friday Nov. 27 at 7:30 p.m. on Family Channel).The 22-year-old Burbank, Calif.-native is a fan of T.O., having spent much of the past couple of years here shooting Skyrunners as well as the Disney adventure

What’s it like to travel so often you no longer need to buy bars of soap–you just keep using all the ones you swipe from all the hotels?Listen in as I give CHML’s Scott Thompson all the details from my recent trip to Beverly Hills to screen episodes and interview stars from the upcoming HBO

People seemed pretty darn pleased with the new CBC National News at Tuesday’s Winter Launch but have they looked at the numbers? Monday’s news score: CTV National News at 11 1,253,000, Global National at 5:30 1,114,000, CBC National at 10 479,000, 10:25 449,000.Still, don’t look for CBC to move the newscast out of that hopeless

The CBC has been getting a lot of practice at hosting press launches. There was one in September, another last month for the new News, and Tuesday the new programs for January and beyond were unveiled.Everybody was basking in the glow of Battle of the Blades and Dragon’s Den, two reality show hits that cracked

It was another winning weekend for Canadian television. CBC surely missed that automatic 1.8 million on this first Sunday after Battle of the Blades, although they did trick 955,000 into watching figure skating (with just 234,000 in the 25-54-year-old demo). Earlier, at 5, 805,000 tuned in for the CBC Disney movie The Princess Diaries II,

So Oprah is adios. In case you missed it Friday: View more news videos at: http://www.nbcchicago.com/video.The other side of this story: Oprah the TV icon may still be a king maker when it comes to presidents and she can definitely still sell a lot of books and magazines but Oprah the TV show has been