With satin ears in New York and Chicago already on film, Toronto’s Up Front Entertainment is home to wrap final interviews for the a&e/ctv special The Bunny Ears.

The us$500,000 two-hour retrospective trails the women who worked as Bunnies through the 25-year history of the Playboy Clubs. Toronto writer Anne Pick penned the script, which is based on the Kathryn Leigh Scott book profiling 150 former Bunnies back through to the ’60s and ’70s. The program is scheduled to air this spring

Up Front’s Barbara Barde and Foxstar Productions’ Kevin Burns are co-executive producing while Goodman Entertainment’s Stuart Goodman produces.

ctv has the first window in April. a&e takes telecast after a one-month blackout. A one-hour version is also in production for BBC1, which will air the special later next year.

Although a&e offered to finance the whole project, Up Front chose to hang on to the rights and take only half from a&e and gather partners including BBC Worldwide, which put up a distribution advance.

Among the former Playboy Bunnies on tape are Elaine Trebek Kares, a Canada am talk show host in the early ’70s; Barbara Bosson, who collaborated with ex-husband Stephen Bochco on Hill Street Blues, Cop Rock and Murder One; and opera singer B.J. Ward, who was the voice of Betty Rubble on The Flintstones.