The ''Sunday Night Sex Show'' was a live call-in

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show hosted by

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, which ran from 1996 to 2005. It aired on the

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and was one of their most popular programs. Every week, callers would line up on the phone to talk to Johanson, about various topics from how to spice up one's

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, to advice on how to select the right

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, to how to deal with various relationship issues. For many years, reruns of the television show ran on the

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in the United States, but American viewers were frustrated that they couldn't call in during the live airing in Canada. Eventually, a US version of the show, titled ''Talk Sex with Sue Johanson'', was created. Reasons for the Canadian cancellation were never given by either Johanson or the W Network. The US show ended with the May 11, 2008, episode. Johanson was very emotional at the conclusion of the show and joined on stage by her supporting cast. Johanson hosted a similar phone-in show with the same name on Toronto radio station Q107 from 1984 to 1998, which was syndicated across Canada in later years, as well as a television phone-in show, ''Sex with Sue'', on

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's community channel in Toronto from 1985 to 1995.

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