The Fifth Estate (TV show)
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The Fifth Estate |
| Country of production | Canada |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | since 1975 |
| Production company |
CBC Television |
| length | about 40 minutes |
| Episodes | 900 |
| Broadcasting cycle |
twenty times a year |
| genre | newsmagazine |
| Moderation |
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| First broadcast | September 15, 1975 on CBC Television |
The Fifth Estate is an award-winning Canadian news magazine that has aired on English language CBC Television and the CBC News Network since 1975 .
General
The name is a play on the media that is sometimes referred to as the fourth booth and was chosen to highlight the program's claim to go beyond everyday news.
The program has been aired since September 15, 1975. The main focus is on investigative journalism. The program has co-produced with the BBC , The New York Times , The Globe and Mail , the Toronto Star and often with the PBS series Frontline .
Topics (selection)
News broadcast on The Fifth Estate included investigations and reports on:
- 9/11 Truth Movement
- Al Qaeda in Europe
- Amanda Todd
- Benny Hinn
- Chris Benoit
- Communications Security Establishment Canada
- Dick Cheney
- Donald Trump
- Airport security
- Julian Assange
- MIM-104 Patriot
- Double murder of Andrea Scherpf and Bernd Göricke
- Pierre Vallières
- Rob Ford
- Russell Williams
- Steven Truscott
Awards
The Fifth Estate has won many awards, including multiple Gemini Awards - ten for best news story series, numerous domestic investigative journalism awards, many New York and Columbus Awards, and International Emmy Awards . In 2000 and 2010 the show received the Michener Award , Canada's most important journalism award with only one annual winner.
In 2003, Frontline won the Pulitzer Prize , the Peabody Award and other awards.
The Fifth Estate is one of two television series ( Twilight Zone is the other) that won an Oscar . The episode A Student Has Disappeared was released in the United States and won an Oscar for best documentary there in 1982 .
Web links
- The Fifth Estate in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Own website
Individual evidence
- ↑ web.archive.org: cbc.ca: ABOUT THE FIFTH ESTATE
- ↑ cbc.ca: The Strange World of Julian Assange
- ↑ Someone Got Away With Murder , episode January 21, 2009
- ↑ web.archive.org: cbc.ca: Awards
- ↑ pulitzer.org: DANGEROUS BUSINESS: A Family's Fortune, A Legacy of Blood and Tears
- ↑ peabodyawards.com: FRONTLINE: A Dangerous Business (PBS)