The Fifth Estate (TV)
| The Fifth Estate | |
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| Starring |
Gillian Findlay Bob McKeown Mark Kelley |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| No. of seasons | 42 |
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| Running time | 60 minutes |
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| Original network | CBC Television |
| Original release | 1975 – present |
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.
The series began its 40th season in October 2014.
News reports aired on The Fifth Estate have included investigations into and reports about:
Journalists associated with the show, past and present, include:
The 2013-2014 Television season was the 39th season of The Fifth Estate.
The 2012–13 Television season was the 38th season of The Fifth Estate.
The 2011–12 Television season was the 37th season of The Fifth Estate.
The 2010–11 Television season was the 36th season of The Fifth Estate.
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.
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