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Five Guys Remain as Amberly Thiessen Eliminated from Canadian Idol

From a media release:

All-Male Top 5 to perform Judges’ Choices from The Beatles’ songbook next week as Anne Murray rescheduled to August 25/26

It’s official: the next Canadian Idol will be a guy. Amberly Thiessen, the last female in the competition, was eliminated on tonight’s live CTV broadcast, leaving five males to duke it out for the 2008 title. Thiessen, 19, a student from Seven Persons, AB, received the fewest of more than 3.3 million votes cast last night, up 7% compared to the same episode last season. Next week, the all-male Fab Five will perform music from the songbook of the greatest group of all time, The Beatles, as selected by Canadian Idol’s four-member judging panel, Farley Flex, Jake Gold, Sass Jordan and Zack Werner. Due to a scheduling change, legendary songstress Anne Murray will now mentor and perform on Canadian Idol during Top 4 Week, August 25 and 26.

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The Guard returns Oct. 29

From a media release:

The Guard returns to Global with its second season on Wednesday, October 29 – 10pm ET/PT. The water-rescue drama resonated with fans earlier this year making it the No. 1 New Canadian Original drama during its spring run**, and it’s the first of many original productions soon to make their own waves within the television landscape.

** Source: BBM-NMR Meter Data, Adults 18-49 (Sep 10/07-May 25/08)

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