Midweek (Canadian TV series)

Midweek
Genre	public affairs
Country of origin	Canada
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
Production
Executive producer(s)	Richard Nielsen
Producer(s)	Alan Erich
Running time	60 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	CBC Television
Original run	30 September 1971 – 18 May 1972

Midweek is a Canadian public affairs television series which aired on CBC Television from 1971 to 1972.

Premise

This series was a companion episode of CBC's popular Sunday night Wekeend public affairs series. It replaced the previous Saturday supplementary broadcast of Weekend. Hosts for each episode of Midweek were a selection of Clive Baxter, Michael Callaghan, Peter Desbarats, Pierre Nadeau and Kay Sigurjonsson. Journalists such as Doug Collins, Michael Maltby and Larry Zolf were featured in reports for this series.

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Scheduling

This hour-long series was broadcast Thursdays at 10:00 p.m. (Eastern) from 30 September 1971 to 18 May 1972.

References

1. ^ Corcelli, John (August 2005). "Midweek". Canadian Communications Foundation. http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/programming/television/programming_popup.php?id=1235. Retrieved 7 May 2010. 

External links

• Allan, Blaine (1996). "Midweek". Queen's University. http://www.film.queensu.ca/CBC/Med.html. Retrieved 7 May 2010.