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The series Metropolis takes us to the very heart of urban life in antiquity and in the 15th century. It examines a crucial step in the history of civilization and culture: Mankind has advanced to a settled lifestyle, allowing him to organize large social alliances which extend far beyond family and clan. The consequences are critical changes in all facets of life.

The Road Show is a Canadian music variety television miniseries which aired on CBC Television in 1977.

The Week Thus Far is a late-night talk-show written and produced by the brightest up-and-comers in Manitoba's comedy scene. The program is hosted by comedian Dan Huen and his co-host Ben Walker. The Week Thus Far deviates from the classic late-night show format by its inclusion of a news desk, where it focuses on the major issues that impact Canadians and their communities. In addition to the TV broadcast, on Shaw TV, it has a website and print publication. The Week Thus Far has been praised in several magazines and newspapers including: The Winnipeg Free Press, Uptown Magazine and Stylus Magazine. The Week Thus Far airs throughout the province of Manitoba.

What's the Good Word? was a Canadian word-based game show that aired on that country's CTV network from 1972–1976. The host was John Barton.

Tales of Adventure is a Canadian serial dramatic television series which aired on CBC Television from 1952 to 1953.

News Hour is the name of local newscast that airs on Global, each city has a different edition of the program. The show debuted in 1974. News Hour airs in Vancouver, Kelowna, Penticton, Vernon, Thompson, Edmonton, Calgary, Regina, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Toronto, Paris, London, Ottawa, Montreal, Lethbridge, Red Deer and in the Maritimes. The show is known as News Hour Weekends on weekends.

Out There with Melissa DiMarco is an award-winning, internationally-distributed comedy and celebrity interview show that stars actor and television personality Melissa DiMarco. The show mixes one-on-one celebrity interviews with scripted comedy that focuses on DiMarco’s misadventures as an entertainment journalist. Episodes currently air on City's national network and OMNI.1, while excerpts from DiMarco's celebrity interviews air on OUTtv.

Viewpoint is a Canadian current affairs television series which aired on CBC Television from 1957 to 1976.

Connect with Mark Kelley was a Canadian news talk show, which aired from 2009 to 2012 on CBC News Network. Hosted by Mark Kelley, the show originally aired lived from 7p.m. to 9p.m. eastern time on weeknights, and then was shortened to an 8p.m. to 9p.m. air time, after the creation of The Lang and O'Leary Exchange. The show's team also included Reshmi Nair, Jennifer Hollett and Nick Purdon. Several months before the first airing, Mark Kelley pitched to his executives the concept of a "highly interactive nightly news show” which would utilize new media technologies. The show debuted on October 26, 2009. The show ended on June 22, 2012 due to budget cuts resulting from the 2012 Canadian federal budget. Kelley went on to join the CBC's weekly newsmagazine series the fifth estate.

Power & Politics is a Canadian television news program focused on national politics that debuted October 26, 2009 on CBC News Network. Hosted by Evan Solomon Monday to Thursday, the show airs from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays. Since fall 2011, other CBC political correspondents have hosted on Fridays, as CBC Radio One's The House, now also hosted by Solomon, is recorded on Fridays.

Neat is a Canadian television series, which airs on HGTV in Canada and formerly on Discovery Home in the United States. Hosted by professional organizer Hellen Buttigieg, Neat is a home improvement series in which Buttigieg helps a person with cluttered living spaces devise solutions to help organize their lives and possessions more effectively.

Zut! was a Canadian sketch comedy television series which aired Saturday evenings from 1970 to 1971 on CBC Television. It was based loosely on relations between Quebec and the rest of Canada. The cast included Peter Cullen, Barrie Baldaro, Joan Stuart, Ted Zeigler, Dave Broadfoot, Wally Martin, Al Boliska, Dave Harriman, as well as singer Donald Lautrec and an orchestra conducted by François Cousineau. The series was produced in Montreal by Dale Barnes.

The Real Lost World is a documentary, released on December 10, 2006 by Animal Planet, where a team of scientists journey to Monte Roraima in Venezuela, the plateau that inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's literary work, The Lost World. They investigate the legend. The film was written and directed by Peter von Puttkamer and produced by Gryphon Productions. The documentary won awards from WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival for Best Cinematography and from the Accolade Television Awards Best of Show in Directing and Cinematography.

daytime is a Canadian television talk show that has become one of the defining shows across the Rogers TV network of local community television stations. daytime covers a wide spectrum of topics in a 60 minute format, generally described as a local lifestyle show that highlights members of the community. Some of the topics and themes based from community access of the show range from food, cooking, home, decorating, shopping, fashion, health, fitness, entertainment and more.

Three Takes is a lifestyle-based show that appears on the Slice Network in Canada. The show is hosted by Andrea Bain, Christine Diakos, and Jack Hourigan, who are respectively single, married, and divorced. The show is aimed mainly at women, and the three hosts have been selected with the hopes that most women will be able to identify with at least one of them. The three hosts typically discuss relationships and beauty and fashion tips, with each woman giving her perspective on these matters.

Pro at Cooking is an Internet-distributed educational series about cooking made by Dave and Davin Productions. The series is a comedic cooking show hosted by Dave Lee, also known by his Chinese name Dawei. Each episode features a female assistant, who tends to be a victim of chauvinism. The series is filmed in Toronto.

ACTS-TV - Aboriginal Christian Television is a Christian daily broadcast show and the founding program of Cree Cable Channel 66 based in Moose Factory, Ontario Canada. Created in 2007 by Rev. Derrick Anderson, it first aired on June 15, 2007 from the Moose Factory Pentecostal Church. The broadcast airs on Moose Cree Cable channel 66 throughout the south-west coast of James Bay, as well as on the ACTS-TV website on the internet. ACTS-TV is "Spirit Led, Spirit Powered".

Catch Up was a children's television series which aired on CBC Television in Canada during the 1978-1979 season. Although the series did not continue past its first year, its hosts would proceed to careers of international scope: ⁕Margot Pinvidic continued acting on various movie and television productions. ⁕Catch Up's music segments were performed by the Christopher Ward Band, whose namesake would become one of MuchMusic's first VJs. Ward also became a songwriter for Alannah Myles and other prominent artists.

Cover Girl is a Canadian French language television sitcom, which aired on Radio-Canada in 2006 and 2007. The series revolved around four drag queens sharing ownership of Cover Girl, a nightclub in downtown Montreal.

COVERguy is a six-part Canadian television series created and produced by Giant Productions, hosted by Mathieu Chantelois originally broadcast on OUTtv in 2005. Thirty aspiring male models compete for $1000 cash, a fashion photoshoot, a one-year membership to Goodlife Fitness Club and the front cover of abOUT Magazine. Chantelois is accompanied by celebrity stylist Maha Rishi. Series One and Two were shot on location at Lüb Lounge, owned by one of the show's creators, in downtown Toronto, and is co-produced by Giant Productions. Season Two premiered Sunday, October 1, 2006. The winner was Gerry King, a dancer who also went on to win the Montreal-based Priape clothing model search in spring 2007. In Season Three, the location was changed to the Gladstone Hotel in the Toronto neighbourhood known as Queen Street West. Although the producers stated that they moved because the Gladstone was becoming a focal point for the young, chic demographic associated with Queen West, Lüb Lounge closed its doors the same summer. The first prize this year was also upgraded, to not only include the magazine cover and GoodLife membership, but the prestigious one-year contract as a model for Ginch Gonch underwear, based in Vancouver. Judges for the third series are model/entertainment reporter John Nightingale, transsexual actress & writer Nina Arsenault, and photographer Jim Armstrong.

Antiques Psychic is a Canadian television series on Canada's Canadian Learning Television and Access Alberta, 2004 - 2005. Cancelled in January, 2006. The show was produced in Calgary, Alberta, and consisted of people bringing objects, not necessarily antiques, to the show's resident psychic, Kim Dennis, who then claims to communicate with the spirits of deceased family members. While there are many 'psychic' television shows available today, Antiques Psychic does not use re-creations, dramatizations, or actors. What the audience is witness to is an actual 'read' with very limited contact with the dead. Canadian celebrity Jann Arden was a guest.

CBC News: Morning was a Canadian breakfast television show which aired live on CBC Television from 6-7 a.m. ET and CBC Newsworld from 6-10 a.m. ET. It was not available over-the-air in the Atlantic and Newfoundland Time Zones. The show was hosted by Heather Hiscox along with Colleen Jones who presented weather and sports news, Harry Forestell with international news and Danielle Bochove with business news. The program was absorbed into CBC News Now when CBC Newsworld was re-branded itself as CBC News Network in October 2009. Hiscox continues to host from 6-9 a.m., and CBC Television continues to simulcast the 6:00 a.m. hour in regions west of Atlantic Canada.

Fanfreluche was a French-language Canadian children's television show made in Quebec by Radio-Canada. The show made its debut in 1968 and ran for forty-six episodes until 1971. It starred Fanfreluche, a living doll who retold fairy tales and legends to the viewers. When the story went a way that displeased her, she would physically enter it to "fix" the ending which sometimes put her in a perilous situation. The character of Fanfreluche had its debut in another Radio-Canada children's show called La Boîte à surprise. From the character in this show, prominent Montreal businessman and Thoroughbred horse breeder Jean-Louis Lévesque named one of his fillys Fanfreluche. Believed to have used the name to please a grandchild, Levesque's filly became a Canadian and United States champion racehorse in 1970.

Nic et Pic is a French language children's television show made in Quebec which aired during the 1970s. Its stories revolved around the adventures of mice Nic and Pic as they travelled around the world in their balloon.

Elwood Glover's Luncheon Date was a Canadian television talk show series which aired on CBC Television from 1963 to 1975. Host Elwood Glover previously hosted noon-time programming on CBC Radio from 1956. A new studio was set up at the Four Seasons Hotel, near the CBC broadcast headquarters on Jarvis Street in Toronto. The following year, Luncheon Date made its CBC television debut while the audio portion was simultaneously broadcast on CBC Radio. Luncheon Date featured Leon Mangoff as announcer and sidekick. Glover announced in February 1975 that he would leave the programme, after conducting more than 10 000 interviews. Glover had worked for the CBC a total of 37 years at that point, but wanted to continue with the CBC in a less intensive role. However, Glover would leave the CBC on 1 June 1975 for a weekend host job at CKEY radio. The CBC would begin a new noon-time talk show program in September 1975, the Bob McLean Show.

Saturday Night at the Movies was a weekly television series on TVOntario, the public educational television network in Ontario, Canada. The series presented classic movies, followed by interviews and feature segments with directors, actors and other people involved in making the films presented. The series presented almost 1,500 films and over 1,000 interviews. First aired on March 30, 1974, the program was originally hosted by Elwy Yost. The first film shown was Ingmar Bergman's Through a Glass Darkly. During Yost's 25-year tenure as host, he showed a wide variety of foreign films, but tended to concentrate on Hollywood-produced films from the 1930s through the 1970s.

Take 30 was a Canadian television newsmagazine series, which aired on CBC Television from 1962 to 1984. An afternoon series originally designed as a "women's show", the series gradually evolved into a showcase for serious journalism, airing documentary reports and interviews on social and cultural topics. The program's original hosts were Anna Cameron and Paul Soles. In 1965, Cameron left and was replaced by Adrienne Clarkson. During his time on the show, Soles was also a busy voiceover actor for animation, best known for shows such as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Spider-Man, both of which were produced concurrent with his work on Take 30. Clarkson left the show in 1975 to become a host of The Fifth Estate, and was replaced by Mary Lou Finlay. Finlay left in 1977, and was replaced by Hana Gartner; Soles left the following year and was replaced by Harry Brown. Gartner left in 1982 and was replaced in the show's final season by Nadine Berger. Other contributors to the show included Jehane Benoît, Charles Lynch, Rita Deverell and Moses Znaimer. In some years, the CBC summer schedule repeated episodes from the past season, supplemented by shows produced in cities outside Toronto, titled in the 30 From ... format, such as 30 From Vancouver.

Comedy at Club 54 is a Canadian television program hosted by Ben Guyatt. The show was produced from the early 1990s until 2002 and is now airing in syndicated re-runs on the Canadian Comedy Network. The show takes place in Burlington, Ontario at Club 54. The live performances still happen weekly, although new episodes of the Comedy at Club 54 TV show have not been aired since 2002. The taped show usually begins with a zoom-in to host Ben Guyatt, who then reads the "Joke of the Week", which is a weekly joke ostensibly sent in from program viewers across North America. Typically, he will then throw the joke card behind him and say to the audience "Welcome to Comedy at Club 54!" This is followed by the opening sequence, audience applause, and the show's theme song, played by an in house band. Ben Guyatt will then introduce the comedians, who over the years have come from all over North America. The performances are almost all of the typical stand-up comedy variety, but also include magicians, ventriloquists, vaudeville acts, comedy duos and musical acts. Every show features at least two comedians with a 12 minute televised spot, although the live performances are much longer and are edited for time.

The Greatest Canadian Invention is a television mini-series originally aired on CBC Television. It is a spiritual sequel to The Greatest Canadian. It began with people voting online which invention they considered the greatest Canadian invention. The show is a two-hour special, hosted by Bob McDonald, that premiered on 3 January 2007 at 8:00 EST.

The Whiteoaks of Jalna was a 1972 Canadian television drama miniseries, based on the novel by Mazo de la Roche. At CAD 2 million, it set a record expense at the time for a Canadian television miniseries. The series was exported internationally including the United Kingdom and France. Scriptwriting was led by Timothy Findley, supported by Claude Harz and Graeme Woods.

Spellz was a 2006 - 2008 magic series featuring famed magician Jay Sankey. Produced by GAPC Entertainment in partnership with TVO Kids, with the participation of Knowledge Network, SCN and the Canadian Television Fund, Spellz was created by Hoda Elatawi, Mike Erskine-Kellie, Jay Sankey and David Peck. The show was directed by Ron Allen, written by Susan McLennan, and executive produced by Ken Stewart. In Spellz, Bridget Hall plays "Bridget, the Amazing Kid Assistant", the only other recurring person on the series, beside Sankey. There were kid segments for a second season of the program were in production during March 2007, however the scenes with Sankey and Hall were filmed in May; there are 26 episodes in Season 1, airing since September 2006, and there are 26 episodes in Season 2, which began September 2007. Both are available on DVD. In 2007, Spellz won the Certificate for Creative Excellence in Communications at the U.S. International Film and Video Festival and the Remi award at the The Houston International Film Festival in 2008.

Medical Intelligence is a Canadian TV show hosted by Terri Michael that has aired on G4techTV Canada, Rogers TV, and MSNBC since March 2003. It airs twice a week, examining two different topics that rely heavily on " personal stories and current medical trends such as plastic surgery and Botox injections" as its source of discussion.

CBC News: Sunday Night was a television newsmagazine series in Canada, which aired on Sunday evenings at 10 p.m. on CBC Television. It was, essentially, the Sunday night equivalent of The National, although it took a more features-oriented approach than its weekday counterpart. The program also aired on CBC Newsworld at 9 p.m., and is repeated at midnight and 5 a.m. the following morning. The program, hosted by Evan Solomon and Carole MacNeil, covered the week's news. It should not be confused with CBC News: Sunday, a Sunday morning newsmagazine hosted by the same team, but which had a different programming focus, although the programs frequently shared features. Sunday Night replaced Sunday Report, a long-running but more standard newscast, in fall 2004. The program ended in 2009, and was replaced with a Sunday edition of The National.

"The Filipino Canadian community’s biggest talent contest in B.C. is the PNT Singing Idol." It is a Filipino-Canadian Metro Vancouver-area singing competition which grants prizes to the most successful amateur singers in three age categories. The top annual prize is a round trip air fare from Metro Vancouver to the Philippines and a $1000 cash prize. The contest started in 2008. On 29 September 2012 PNT Idol expanded to include a Seattle, Washington contest whose finalists would represent the state in the Metro-Vancouver, Canada, Grand Finals later in the year.

U8TV: The Lofters was a Canadian reality television series, which aired on the Life Network and online through its website U8TV.com, in 2001 and 2002.

Camp Cariboo is a Canadian children's television program that aired on several CTV stations from 1986 to 1989, lasting for a total of five seasons. The show is best known for its rerun stint on YTV from 1989 to 1996. Camp Cariboo was produced by CKCO-TV, out of Kitchener, Ontario, and filmed in part on location in Ontario Camping Association camps. The program was hosted by Tom Knowlton and Mark Baldwin. Each show consisted of a variety of short skits, riddles, songs and stories, all portrayed in the setting of a fictional summer camp attended by young campers.

Go on an adventure with Land and Sea for captivating stories from Newfoundland and Labrador. Where nature, culture, and community collide in unique tales of resilience, tradition, and coastal life.

This docuseries follows the adventures of the eccentric pickers who criss-cross the country to find unique products that they can sell for big profits. Although they live free-living, bohemian lifestyes, they also confront a difficult, competitive world.

Young chef Rosalie Lessard serves up some very tasty suggestions that both beginners and certified gourmets can whip in up a hurry and without any effort...or almost anyway. What’s on the menu? Lots of fun, tips galore, and ultrasimple recipes in store.

Every year many British tourists flee from their dull weather, but some find themselves far away from the climate they craved. Instead they become caught up in extreme and life-threatening weather events. These are their stories.

Soccer Central is a soccer news program broadcast by the Canadian sports channel Sportsnet. The program was first introduced on August 17, 2012 as Fox Soccer News; at the time, the program was shared with the U.S. channel Fox Soccer as a replacement for the Fox Soccer Report. With the launch of Fox Sports 1, Fox Soccer News was replaced in the United States by the in-house Fox Soccer Daily on August 19, 2013. Consequently, Fox Soccer News was re-branded as Soccer Central, and its Fox Sports-style presentation and graphics were replaced with that of Sportsnet. The show is aired as a half an hour show from Monday through Friday and an hour show on Sunday.