Canwest’s E! Network is launching a new weekend round-up of the-week-that-was in entertainment, while CTV looks forward to more dancing stars. Star!, Space and CosmoTV are sexing up the spring skeds. And the Ceeb’s painting a picture of political thrills with Paul Gross.

As expected, the appearance of three Academy Awards-related programs in the Top 10 pushed some scripted and reality shows down the list. But all three Oscar chart-toppers together lost thousands of viewers from last year’s averages.

Astral Media TVPlus invited a lot of friends to Toronto yesterday to introduce its new French TV specialty office team and announce its responsibility for Teletoon in Quebec.

Global’s set to premiere two fresh series for its Monday-night line-up, but its only Friday-night winner is going to fade away.

Slice Network is about to celebrate its first anniversary and, growthwise, the guilty pleasures net is calling it a very happy birthday. Now it’s readying a saucy spring launch line-up.

The preliminary numbers are in for the biggest show of the year – and all the other Oscar-related programming on CTV. As big as these numbers are, they seem to be dwindling each year.

The Blue Jays broadcasters have revealed their season sked details, so advertisers can mark their time slots if baseball’s on the media plan.

Canwest’s Food Network is set to launch several new shows March 24, plated to carry the momentum of its most successful season to date.

CTV’s premiere of the much-hyped show Dexter – leading out of Cold Case – held up strong against Global’s Knight Rider. What’s a difference of half a million when you put a series against a movie?