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The comedians of the defunct show Royal Canadian Air Farce will be back for the New Year's Eve at 8 Pm on CBC.

Obviously, these comedians are Jessica Holmes, Penelope Corrin, Alan Park, Roger Abbott, Don Ferguson, Craig Lauzon and Luba Goy. As always, they'll poke fun at all the major newsmakers of 2010.

Speaking of that, we can think about the rise of teen-singer Justin Bieber, the G8/G20, WikiLeaks' cables, William and Kate, Lady Gaga's high-protein apparel, Sarah Palin, the Tea Party, Celine Dion, Tony Hayward, the Chilean miners, Barack Obama, Joseph Biden and even the soccer World Cup.

CBC also revealed that Lloyd Robertson, one of Canada's news anchors, will guest-star. He will look back at his four decades anchoring national newscasts at CBC and CTV, another Canadian TV network. Other guest-stars will include journalists Lisa Laflamme, Peter Mansbridge and Brian Williams.

Toronto -- Former TV wrestling diva Trish Stratus is making her movie acting debut.

Stratus is top-lining "Bail Enforcers," an indie Canadian action film about a team of bounty hunters that will have the seven-time WWE women's champion giving the occasional smackdown to bad guys in fight sequences and car chases.

Stratus made occasional appearances on Canadian TV shows like "Royal Canadian Air Farce" before retiring from professional wrestling in 2006.

She recently co-produced "Stratusphere," a travel doc series on the travel+escape network and Discovery HD.

"Bail Enforcers" will be shot in and around Toronto by director Patrick McBrearty. Chad Archibald of Black Fawn Films is producing.

OTTAWA -- The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. unveiled a 2004-05 fall lineup dominated by Canadian programming Thursday, with British soap opera Coronation Street moving to primetime four times a week as a lead-in to the domestic shows. Coronation will be followed by two new Canadian reality shows -- The Greatest Canadian and Making the Cut -- and returning comedy series The Royal Canadian Air Farce, beginning in October. "As a Canadian broadcaster that doesn't run a lot of American simulcast, we simply have to be smarter about scheduling," CBC executive director of network programming Slawko Klymkiw said. "High impact is not only high numbers for us, but it means a lot of buzz around legacy, distinctiveness."...