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Sue Johanson’s Sunday night sex counselling show on W network cancelled
TORONTO (CP) — Sex counsellor Sue Johanson’s Sunday Night Sex Show is ceasing production, a spokesperson for the W network confirmed Monday.
However the popular therapist, grandmother and former nurse will continue to tape the U.S. equivalent of her long-running show — which began airing on the Oxygen network in 2002.
Johanson’s sex counselling show started on Toronto radio in 1984, then moved to WTN in February of 1996. With WTN re-branded as W, the live show continued on Sundays with classic episodes running during the week.
Johanson has been a popular guest on such U.S. talk shows as The View, David Letterman and Conan O’Brien. Her show also airs, with Portugese subtitles, in Brazil.
Her quarter century of experience includes establishing the Don Mills Birth Control Clinic in 1970, where she remained as a clinic co-ordinator until ’86. She began teaching sex and sexuality in schools in 1974 and still makes presentations to thousands of university and college students each year. And she’s written three books on sexuality, not including one on her show, Nocturnal Emissions: Behind the Scenes of the Sunday Night Sex Show.
There was no immediate word on why the show was cancelled or when the last episode will air.

Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 11 July 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

oh man I would kill to find that animated gif of her with a chin dildo strapped on.

Dan I. (Dan I.), Monday, 11 July 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

The "problem" with Sue's show is that she always gets the same questions. After watching/listening to her on and off for 15 years, I think I could take over because I know exactly what she's going to say.

In this way, the show has been serving its callers better than its viewers for some time. I wonder if W will liscence the Oxygen network shows instead. This might be for the best, because with one less show to tape maybe she'll devote more time to speaking in schools, which is where she's at her best anyway.

MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 11 July 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

It wouldn't surprise me if the show's been cancelled because W can't afford it anymore.

Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 11 July 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

this is a dark day for canadians everywhere.

mark p (Mark P), Monday, 11 July 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

Thread title of the year. I thought this was going to be a twisted FF topic escaped from ILComics.

Huk, I have sent you an email on another topic entirely.

Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 11 July 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

No you haven't.

Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 11 July 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

Oh wait, you did.

Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 11 July 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

I thought this thread was going to be about Cliff Richard.

Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 11 July 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

to be fair, you think every thread's going to be about cliff richard.

mark p (Mark P), Monday, 11 July 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

I didn't even know she was still doing the show! How old is she now, 97?

Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 11 July 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

but what a fine 97!

mark p (Mark P), Monday, 11 July 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

i thought this show was unwatchable. mainly cos the questions were so fucking remedial.

xp her bf is like 24 right?

g e o f f (gcannon), Monday, 11 July 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

OMG!

Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 11 July 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

Sex counsellor Sue Johanson says she’s ceasing production on her Sunday Night Sex Show on the W network, but insists it has nothing to do with ratings.
The popular therapist, grandmother and former nurse says she will continue to do the U.S. version of her show here, which she had been taping immediately after the Canadian one. It began airing on the Oxygen network south of the border in 2002.
“I’ve been doing the show now on Canadian television for 21 years,” she says. “So I felt that if something’s going to give, it has to be the one that’s longest in the tooth.”
Johanson says she will, however, continue to teach sex ed to Canadian college and university students right across the country.
She insists she didn’t cease the Canadian show because doing both of them was too tiring.
“I’m one of these women that has too much energy. I’m a pain in the butt.”
She says it was simply a case of contract renewal time and while the show was a ratings winner for W, which owned the show, her travel commitments made it impossible to stretch herself any further.
“I do 60 colleges and universities a year right across the country.”
Johanson concedes W was surprised by her decision but that Canadian kids and their parents have been exposed to her “yapping” for a long time now.
She doesn’t know of any plans at present for a Canadian broadcaster to start importing the Oxygen show.

Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 11 July 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

Sue rocks. The call she got one night about screwing a cat was one of the funniest things ever on Canadian radio. The poor guy kept insisting he did not want to make love to his cat, that it was another cat that kept his poor kitty in pain, while she kept explaining why his penis would hurt a female cat.

Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:47 (twenty years ago)

“I do 60 colleges and universities a year right across the country.”

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C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

First Mr.Dressup, now this.

J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 06:17 (twenty years ago)

I used to listen to her show at a young age on the radio, just because they were talking about sex. Then a friend told me she had spoken at her high school and was totally sex-negative and told the girls not to sit on boys' laps or, if doing so, to use a phone book as padding in between(?)...

scout (scout), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 06:32 (twenty years ago)


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