Venture is a weekly Canadian

Canada

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 business

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 television series that aired on CBC Television

CBC Television

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 from 1985 to 2007. The show focused mostly on business documentaries

Television documentary

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, but also aired business-related news pieces. In the beginning, Venture was hosted by Patrick Watson, who previously hosted the controversial but wildly popular Sunday evening news program This Hour has Seven Days

This Hour Has Seven Days

This Hour Has Seven Days is a controversial CBC Television newsmagazine which ran from 1964 to 1966. The show, inspired by the BBC-TV and NBC-TV satire series That Was The Week That Was, was created by Patrick Watson and Douglas Leiterman as an avenue for a more stimulating and boundary-pushing...

in the 1960s.

More recently, the program was hosted by Robert Scully

Robert Guy Scully

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. Its most recent host was Dianne Buckner

Dianne Buckner

Dianne Buckner is a Canadian television journalist, best known as a host of business-oriented programming, such as Venture and Dragons' Den on CBC Television....

.

One of Venture's more recent special features are documentary pieces called Back to the Floor

Back to the Floor (Canadian TV series)

Back to the Floor is a corporate reality show that began as a regular feature on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's show Venture.Chief Executive Officers and a low level employee change jobs for a week...

, in which a chief executive officer

Chief executive officer

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 is forced to work at an entry-level job

Entry-level job

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within their own company for a day.

CBC announced the cancellation of Venture on 4 April 2007. Episodes were broadcast on Sundays until 2 September 2007.

External links

• CBC Digital Archives – Venture