Five Years After His Death, Mr. Dress-Up Cancelled

Poor ratings cause CBC to pull Mr. Dressup from network’s morning lineup
TORONTO (CP) — The end of an era in Canadian children’s programming is at hand.
After 11 years of daily reruns, the C-B-C is cancelling Mr. Dressup, the Toronto Star reports.
In July, the show will be bumped to a Sunday morning slot and by September will forever disappear from the C-B-C lineup.
The network’s management has been reworking its children’s lineup over the past several years and decided it was time for the friendly, bespectacled Mr. Dressup and his “Tickle Trunk” to go.
In his prime, Mr.Dressup would draw 500,000 preschoolers every day, but ratings have been in steady decline.
The C-B-C says diehards will still be able to buy choice episodes on D-V-D.
Ernie Coombs, the man who was Mr. Dressup, died of a stroke at 73 in 2001.