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Show Smothers show may move to Canada TORONTO (AP) - Tom Smothers of the Smothers Brothers says if he and his brother are blacklisted by United States television networks, they will seriously consider doing their show in Canada. "We could call it The Smother; Brothers in Exile," he told a news conference Sunday. He also said he and his brother Dick will not sue the Columbia Broadcasting System for its recent decision to cancel the weekly Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour at the end of this season. Failed obligations CBS said it is canceling a 26-part series planned for the fall on the grounds that the brothers had failed to live up to their contract obligations. A long history of friction between them came to a head when the U.S. network dropped Sunday night's show. The show was seen uncut by viewers across Canada on the CTV network. Robert D. Wood, CBS-TV president, said the hour was canceled because it was "in bad taste" and because the Smothers had failed to submit a tape of it to the network in time for prescreening. Tom Smothers said Mr. Wood "is either a liar or misinformed." |
