From the Hollywood Reporter:

• Search is on for Canadian Miley Cyrus
  “Universal Music Canada has joined the search for Canada’s version of Miley Cyrus. The Canadian label will offer a record contract to the winner of “The Instant Star,” a summer reality talent show from YTV, Canada’s kids cable channel, and producer Tricon Films & Television, that will bow July 18.” Read more.

From a media release:

Oh So Cosmo’s Top 12 Bachelor Finalists Just Announced, Text and Online Voting Begins Now

The top 12 finalists have just been revealed in a special episode of Oh So Cosmo, and voting begins now in CosmoTV’s nationwide Bachelor Search. Viewers can vote for their favourite Canadian hottie starting today and ending on Wednesday, May 28. To be sure the best guy comes out on top; voters can check out the profiles and pictures at www.cosmotv.ca and cast their vote via text message or online.

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From a media release:

Citytv to Broadcast CRUSOE, a new adventure series to air this Fall

The Rogers Media Television group, a division of Rogers Communications Inc., will be the Canadian broadcaster of Crusoe, a new, adventure television series. The series is being produced by Muse Entertainment, Power and Moonlighting Crusoe Productions (Pty) Ltd as an official Canada/ UK/ South Africa co-production. This series was also partially funded by Rogers’ Citytv. Incendo Media is the Canadian distributor of the series. Crusoe will air Friday nights at 8:00 pm on NBC and Citytv this fall.

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From a media release:

In the tradition of the hit series Survivorman, Les Stroud, 9 Story Entertainment and YTV are hunting for six brave souls for the new series Survivorman Kids. With Les as their mentor, the kids will be taken into the wilderness and presented with different survival challenges, testing their skill, wit and determination.

Applicants that have what it takes to survive like expert Survivorman Les Stroud, who are between the ages of 13 – 17, are being asked to apply now at http://www.survivormankids.com. The series will be filmed in Ontario and is scheduled to shoot this summer. Previous camping experience is not required.

Application deadline is Friday, May 16.

No video games, no internet, no food court…no kidding. THIS IS REAL.

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From Joe Clark at CaptioningSUCKS.com, a transcript of that interview from the TV, eh? Blogtalkradio show:

• Transcript of interview on the TV, Eh? podcast
  “It’s the latest, you know, foray in my quixotic effort to get a pittance of money together to start a research project to actually develop and write, and then test, a viable standard for things like captioning and three other fields of accessibility – one for blind people and also subtitling and dubbing. Because at present there are no independently-developed and -tested standards for things like captioning, which is one reason why captioning sucks – because there is no set and tested way of doing it.” Read more.