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Paula Abdul‘s latest crack up on American Idol, the down low on next week’s network “upfronts” plus the latest on all those crazy Disney Channel kids are the hot topics this week with CHML’s Scott Thompson. Did those photos hurt Miley Cyrus among her core fans? Do five year olds read Vanity Fair? Listen in

Sue Johanson, the Toronto-based sex educator, is bringing her series Talk Sex With Sue Johanson to a close after “six sensuous seasons,” according to a release today from the Oxygen network. The call-in series will run out of Oxygen May 11.Johanson, 77, has been holding up dildos and vibrators on Canadian screens since 1985 when

We all knew that these upfronts would be different, and that the Canadian network buying spree would be more like an episode of Survivor this spring. The usual ways of doing business, due for a shake down anyway, are getting ripped up on both sides of the border. Tiki torches will be snuffed.Take today’s announcement

“Canadian bacon, soggy and chewy. American bacon, crisp and delicious.” As posted below, one of the gags Senator Hillary Clinton read last night on Late Show with David Letterman: Even in this AP cut down posted on YouTube, the lamest Top 10 List ever. We’ll find out later today how many votes it cost her

It’s May sweeps, which means season finales, plenty of guest stars and cross over stunts. Two happen tonight, and they’re both damn intriquing. First, CSI and Two And A Half Men flip script writers, a cool idea given one is a dramatic police drama and the other is a studio audience sitcom. Most weeks they

It was 50 years ago today that Wayne & Shuster made their first of what would stand as a record 67 appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show.If you are asking a) what’s a Wayne & Shuster b) who was Ed Sullivan and c) is Brioux, what, 100?, here are a few answers for you, wise

Hosting a little cyber chat today over at TV, Eh? Web mistress Diane Wild has this podcast deal up and running and today at 2 p.m. E.T. I’m chatting with one of the nicest men in Canadian broadcasting, Roger Abbott of the Royal Canadian Air Farce.Just last month, Abbott and fellow Farce fave Don Ferguson

ORLANDO, Fla. —Miley Cyrus finally stuck her head out of that deep hole Disney had put her in this week–meaning six more weeks of world wide publicity.The 15-year-old Hannah Montana star, who has been at the centre of a controversy ever since her arty Vanity Fair photo shoot surfaced last week, joined several other Disney