Venture (TV series)

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Venture was a weekly Canadian business news television series, which aired on CBC Television from 1985 to 2007. The show aired both news reports and documentary features on news and issues in business and finance. [1]

The program launched in January 1985, initially airing on Mondays at 7:30 p.m. [2] In its second season it was shifted to Sunday nights, airing after the network's Sunday night newscast Sunday Report. [3] It remained in that time slot until Sunday Report was expanded into the full one-hour CBC News: Sunday Night in 2004, at which time it moved to 7:00 p.m. Sunday evening. [4]

Its original host was Patrick Watson, [1] who left in 1987 to work on the documentary series The Struggle for Democracy . [5] He was succeeded by Robert Scully, [6] whose concurrent hosting of the news talk show Scully Rencontre on Télévision de Radio-Canada made him the first person in Canadian television history to simultaneously host programs on both the English and French services of the CBC. [7] Scully hosted until 1997, when he was succeeded by Dianne Buckner, [8] who hosted for the remainder of the show's run.

Venture's special features included a recurring documentary series called Back to the Floor, in which a chief executive officer works at an entry-level job within their own company for a day. [9] Back to the Floor was a Gemini Award nominee for Best Reality Program or Series at the 19th Gemini Awards in 2004; [10] the following year, the program won the award for the episode "The Town Doctor". [11]

In the show's final season, Buckner was also concurrently host of Dragons' Den , CBC's new reality series centred on entrepreneurship. [12] On April 4, 2007, CBC announced the cancellation of Venture. [13] The final episode was broadcast on September 2, 2007.

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References

  1. 1 2 Hugh Anderson, "An unprejudiced look at business". Montreal Gazette , January 9, 1985.
  2. ↑ Peter Desbarats, "New understanding of business needs". Financial Post , February 2, 1985.
  3. ↑ "CBC unveils new season featuring nine new series". The Globe and Mail , July 4, 1985.
  4. ↑ Antonia Zerbisias, "High-tech media frenzy already in full swing". Toronto Star , May 26, 2004.
  5. ↑ "Venture host to leave for series on democracy". Ottawa Citizen , January 15, 1987.
  6. ↑ "Scully named Venture host". Toronto Star , January 18, 1987.
  7. ↑ Barbara Aarsteinsen, "Ever-versatile Robert Scully finds a home before a camera". The Globe and Mail , June 10, 1989.
  8. ↑ Christopher Harris, "Venture names host". The Globe and Mail , September 16, 1997.
  9. ↑ Alex Strachan, "Venture's Back to the Floor series on CBC is entertaining". Harbour City Star, October 11, 2003.
  10. ↑ Alex Strachan, "Human Cargo leads Gemini nominations". Kingston Whig-Standard , October 27, 2004.
  11. ↑ "2005 Gemini Winners". Playback , December 5, 2005.
  12. ↑ "Entrepreneurs bring their dreams, egos to Dragons". Kelowna Capital News, September 27, 2006.
  13. ↑ Jim Bawden, "CBC cleans house; Hallmark shows Country Canada, Venture and Opening Night among casualties as the people's network turns to reality programming, sitcoms and Elizabethans". Toronto Star , April 5, 2007.
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