Sunday Edition (Canadian TV series)
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''Sunday Edition'' is a Canadian public affairs television program which aired from 1988 to 1999. The program was hosted by Mike Duffy and originated at
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in
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,
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. Over the course of its run, it aired in several different time slots from late Sunday morning to early Sunday afternoons. Its format was similar to that of American
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. The program was at first co-operatively produced by several
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affiliates, but at that point was not officially a CTV network program. ''Sunday Edition'' later became part of the
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schedule and only officially became a CTV program in early 1998, shortly after Baton Broadcasting's acquisition of the network. At the same time, production moved to CTV's flagship studios at
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in the
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suburb of Scarborough. The show was cancelled in 1999, and Duffy moved to a role as host of a prime time talk and interview series on CTV Newsnet. The
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-produced '' Question Period'', which had been cancelled in the mid-1990s apparently due to the success of ''Sunday Edition'', was revived in 2001 and now fills a similar role.


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