This Hour Has Seven Days
1960s Canadian television news magazine / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This Hour Has Seven Days was a CBC Television news magazine that ran from 1964 to 1966, offering viewers in-depth analysis of the major social and political stories of the previous week.[1][2]
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This Hour Has Seven Days | |
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Genre | News magazine |
Created by | Patrick Watson Douglas Leiterman |
Presented by | John Drainie Laurier LaPierre Patrick Watson Dinah Christie |
Country of origin | Canada |
No. of episodes | 50 |
Production | |
Running time | 60 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | CBC Television |
Release | October 4, 1964 (1964-10-04) ā May 8, 1966 (1966-05-08) |
The show, inspired by the BBC and NBC-TV satire series That Was the Week That Was, was created by Patrick Watson and Douglas Leiterman as an avenue for a more stimulating and boundary-pushing brand of television journalism.[1] CBC executives believed the controversial show went beyond the limits of journalistic ethics and cancelled the show, leading to allegations of political interference.[2]
The show set new standards of broadcast journalism in Canada and the United States, and many of its elements inspired the tabloid talk show genre in later decades.[1][2]