CBC's Sounds Like Canada to be silenced after summer
CBC Radio says its weekday morning show, Sounds Like Canada, will end its six-year run at the end of the summer.
The Radio One show's cancellation follows the decision by host Shelagh Rogers to leave her position on May 30.
Shelagh Rogers, host of Sounds Like Canada, announced over the weekend she was leaving the show at the end of May.
The show will be replaced by a new program, yet to be developed.
"This change provides us with the opportunity to continue evolving the Radio One daytime schedule to meet the needs of current and new listeners," said Chris Boyce, CBC Radio's interim program director, in a release on Thursday.
"We don't know what the new show will look like, but we do know we need a strong host, with a strong personality, that the audience will connect with and want to spend time with."
CBC Radio will be hatching ideas with small groups of programmers, according to the release.
Rogers made her announcement over the weekend.
Sounds Like Canada is one of the network's two flagship radio morning shows that replaced the three-hour program This Morning. Anna Maria Tremonti's The Current is the other show.
Rogers hosted This Morning for two years until 2002 before the slot was split into two programs. Rogers moved to Vancouver in 2003 with the new program.
The broadcaster has been with CBC Radio since 1980.
Moviegoers can't ignore elephant in theaters
LAS VEGAS (Hollywood Reporter) - "Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!" will be big. The only question is how big.
Most industry officials expect Fox's computer-animated family film, featuring a voice cast led by Jim Carrey and Steve Carell, to ring up ticket sales of at least $40 million, possibly more than $50 million during its first three days in theaters across the United States and Canada.
Serving as points of comparison, Universal debuted "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" in November 2000 to $55.1 million, and "Dr. Seuss' the Cat in the Hat" three years later to $38.3 million. Whether a March bow can muster the box office muscle of a holiday release remains to be seen.
Carrey voices Horton, a rubbery elephant who stumbles upon a speck that happens to be a tiny planet, home to a city called Who-ville. Carell voices the excitable mayor.
Last weekend's champ, the Warner Bros. prehistoric adventure "10,000 BC," will slip to No. 2 with sales in the $18 million range -- assuming a conservative 50% drop from its opening round.
Two other films will open on Friday. The action thriller "Doomsday" would do well to reach double-digit millions. And the mixed martial arts release "Never Back Down" likely will fall just short of that range.
"Doomsday," produced by Universal Pictures' Rogue Films genre unit for an estimated $19 million, stars Bob Hoskins and Rhona Mitra in the story of a country torn apart by a brutal government quarantine over a killer virus. As a bonus for moviegoers, the film will be preceded by the new trailer for Universal's June 13 film "The Incredible Hulk."
"Never Back Down," a $20 million-plus film from production firm Summit Entertainment, targets the high school and college crowd. Sean Faris plays a misfit maturing under the guidance of a wise martial arts instructor, played by Djimon Hounsou.
Among several limited releases, Warner Independent unspools the horror movie "Funny Games" in 289 locations, while Overture has the domestic drama "Sleepwalking" in 25 venues.
Ed McMahon recovering from neck injury
LOS ANGELES - Former "Tonight Show" sidekick Ed McMahon broke his neck in a fall last year and was recovering after two surgeries, his publicist said Thursday.
Susan DuBow said the fall happened last March. She said she did not believe McMahon was at his Beverly Hills home when it happened.
"It's been a tough year, but I'm working hard in rehab and doing the best I can to get through it," the 85-year-old McMahon said in a statement.
DuBow said she was not allowed to release any further information for legal reasons. McMahon was recently seen walking around at a public event in a neck brace.
McMahon is perhaps best known as Johnny Carson's sidekick for decades on "The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson." He worked with Carson on the game show "Who Do You Trust?" in 1957 and was known for never failing to laugh at Carson's quips.
McMahon's trademark opener for each "Tonight" show was: "And now h-e-e-e-e-e-ere's Johnny!" followed by a small bow toward the star.
In March 2005, McMahon fell at his home in a gated community in Beverly Hills. He suffered mild concussion and received several stitches for a gash in his forehead.
McMahon also was co-host with Dick Clark of the "Bloopers" shows and he has made regular appearances on The Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon.