The Fifth Estate

For other uses, see Fifth Estate (disambiguation).

the fifth estate title screen.

the fifth estate (always branded in all-lower case) is a Canadian television newsmagazine, which airs on the English language CBC Television 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 leading Canadian newspapers The Globe and Mail and The Toronto Star, and often with the PBS series Frontline.

It has won far more awards than any other Canadian information program,^{[citation needed]} including scores of 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 The Michener Award, Canada's top journalism prize, which is open to all media and has only one annual winner. One recent 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.

Programs

News reports aired on the fifth estate have included investigations into/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
• Brandon Crisp
• Chris Benoit, Wrestler: Fight to the Death
• Chuckie Akenz
• Communications Security Establishment
• David Frost and Mike Danton
• Dick Cheney
• 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

Journalists

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

• The Rt. Hon. Adrienne Clarkson
• Anna Maria Tremonti
• Bob McKeown
• David Studer
• Eric Malling
• Francine Pelletier
• Gillian Findlay
• Glenn Sarty
• Hana Gartner
• Harvey Cashore
• Ian Parker
• Jim Williamson
• Linden MacIntyre
• Marie Caloz
• Neil Docherty
• Peter Reilly
• Robin Taylor
• Ron Haggart
• Sally Reardon
• Sheila MacVicar
• Stevie Cameron
• Theresa Burke
• Trish Wood
• Victor Malarek
• Warner Troyer

Season 37

The 2011-2012 Television season was the 37th seasonof the fifth estate.

Episode	Title	Original Air Date	CBC Viewers
1	Truth and Lies: The Last Days of Osama bin Laden	September 9, 2011	599,000
2	Swissair 111:The Untold Story	September 16, 2011	775,000
3	Gatti-vs-Gatti	September 23, 2011	436,000
4	Mayday	September 30, 2011	482,000
5	Colonel Gadhafi:Palace of Secrets	October 7, 2011	577,000
6	True Confession	October 14, 2011	504,000
7	Scout's Honour	October 21, 2011	567,000
8	'Til Death Do Us Part	October 28, 2011	482,000
9	Stories from the River’s Edge	November 4, 2011	509,000
10	Murder, he wrote	November 18, 2011	535,000
11	A Cold Case	November 25, 2011	612,000
12	Holiday Hell	December 2, 2011	722,000
13	Behind the Line	December 9, 2011	568,000
14	Escape From Justice	January 6, 2012	853,000
15	Diagnosis Murder	January 13, 2012	646,000
16	The Lies People Tell	January 20, 2012	752,000
17	Who’s Killing the Rizzutos?	January 27, 2012	622,000
18	The Wreck of the Costa Concordia	February 3, 2012	1,317,000

External links

• Official website
• The Fifth Estate at the Internet Movie Database