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Country of origin
  
Canada

Running time
  
60 minutes

Original release
  
1975 – present

8/10
IMDb

No. of seasons
  
42

Original network
  
CBC Television

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Starring
  
Gillian Findlay Bob McKeown Mark Kelley

Theme song
  
The Fifth Estate Theme Song

Executive producers
  
Julian Sher, Neil Docherty, Oleh Rumak

Writers
  
Bob McKeown, Mark Kelley, Gillian Findlay

Awards
  
Barbara Sears Award for Best Editorial Research

Nominations
  
Donald Brittain Award for Best Social/Political Documentary Program

Similar
  
W5, The Nature of Things, Marketplace, The National, CBC News: Sunday

Profiles

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The Fifth Estate (stylized as the fifth estate) is an award-winning Canadian television newsmagazine, which airs on the English language CBC Television network and CBC News Network. The name is a play on the fact that the media are sometimes referred to as the Fourth Estate, and was chosen to highlight the program's determination to go beyond everyday news into original journalism. The program has been on the air since September 1975, and its primary focus is on investigative journalism. It has engaged in co-productions with the BBC, The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, and often with the PBS series Frontline.

Contents

The series began its 40th season in October 2014.

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Programs

News reports aired on The Fifth Estate have included investigations into and reports about:

  • 9/11 Truth movement
  • Death of Ashley Smith
  • Airbus affair, Brian Mulroney and Karlheinz Schreiber
  • William Francis Melchert-Dinkel
  • Airport Security
  • Al-Qaeda in Europe
  • Benny Hinn
  • Brendan Burke
  • Brandon Crisp
  • Chris Benoit, Wrestler: Fight to the Death
  • Chuckie Akenz
  • Scouts Canada
  • Communications Security Establishment
  • David Frost and Mike Danton
  • Jian Ghomeshi
  • Rob Ford
  • Dick Cheney
  • MIM-104 Patriot and its ineffectiveness during the Gulf War as a missile defense system
  • Guy Paul Morin
  • Suicide of Amanda Todd
  • Jane and Finch
  • Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation ("Luck of the Draw")
  • Pierre Vallières
  • Polygamy in Bountiful, British Columbia
  • Enemies of the State
  • Steven Truscott
  • To Sell a War
  • Tunagate
  • David Russell Williams
  • Mark Twitchell
  • Donald Trump
  • Julian Assange
  • Journalists

    Journalists associated with the show, past and present, include:

  • Theresa Burke
  • Marie Caloz
  • Stevie Cameron
  • Harvey Cashore
  • Adrienne Clarkson
  • Neil Docherty
  • Gillian Findlay1
  • Hana Gartner
  • Ron Haggart
  • Bob Johnstone
  • Mark Kelley1
  • Joe MacAnthony
  • Linden MacIntyre
  • Bob McKeown1
  • Sheila MacVicar
  • Victor Malarek
  • Eric Malling
  • Habiba Nosheen
  • Ian Parker
  • Francine Pelletier
  • Sally Reardon
  • Peter Reilly
  • Glenn Sarty
  • David Studer
  • Robin Taylor
  • Warner Troyer
  • Anna Maria Tremonti
  • Jim Williamson
  • Trish Wood
  • Season 39

    The 2013-2014 Television season was the 39th season of The Fifth Estate.

    Season 38

    The 2012–13 Television season was the 38th season of The Fifth Estate.

    Season 37

    The 2011–12 Television season was the 37th season of The Fifth Estate.

    Season 36

    The 2010–11 Television season was the 36th season of The Fifth Estate.

    Awards

    The Fifth Estate has won many awards, including Gemini Awards – among them ten for Best Information Series, numerous domestic investigative journalism awards, many New York and Columbus awards, International Emmys, and in 2000 and 2010 the Michener Award, Canada's top journalism prize, which is open to all media and has only one annual winner. A 2003 co-production with The New York Times and PBS's Frontline was recognized with the Pulitzer, Peabody, Polk and other awards.

    The Fifth Estate is one of two television series (with The Twilight Zone being the first) to win an Academy Award, a prize presented to theatrical films: Just Another Missing Kid, originally a The Fifth Estate episode, was released in theatres in the United States and won the 1982 Academy Award for Documentary Feature.

    Controversy

    The CBC was successfully sued for libel over an episode that aired on February 27, 1996. Dr. Myers asked for an apology plus $25,000, while Dr. Leenen asked for an apology plus $10,000, but the CBC decided to fight. Dr. Myers was awarded $200,000, plus interest and costs, while Dr. Leenen won $950,000, plus interest and costs that could total over $2-million, a record for Canadian libel. The CBC has no libel insurance. Both judges ruled that the journalists had twisted the facts and acted with malice, with one writing in his discission "This was sensationalistic journalism of the worst sort and should serve as an embarrassment to this so-called 'flagship' investigative program." The episode's host Trish Wood, producer Nicholas Regush, the researcher and executive producer David Studer with punitive and aggravated damages. [41]

    References

    The Fifth Estate (TV series) Wikipedia