The Way It Is (TV Program)
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''The Way It Is'' is a Canadian public affairs television program which aired on
CBC Television CBC Television (also known as CBC TV) is a Canadian English-language broadcast television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster. The network began operations on September 6, 1952. Its French-l ...
from 1967 to 1969.


Premise

Following the cancellations of ''Close-Up'', ''Sunday'' and ''
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'', this new journalistic program occupied the traditional Sunday night current affairs time slot on CBC. The set included three screens which displayed images projected from behind.
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was a script assistant who later became one of the network's announcers. Story editors included
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and Tim Kotcheff. John Saywell, a Toronto professor, hosted the program. Other presenters included Warren Davis,
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, Ken Lefolii,
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, Patrick Watson and
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.
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was among the program's guests. The program often featured long-form documentaries. "Mr. Pearson", a profile of Prime Minister
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, was originally completed in the mid-1960s. It was not broadcast until this program, after director Richard Ballentine made minor edits, added some narration and adjusted the audio mix. Douglas Leiterman (''This Hour Has Seven Days'') produced "Fasten Your Seatbelts: A Report on Airline Safety" as a co-production with the US
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.
Donald Shebib Donald Everett "Don" Shebib (born 27 January 1938) is a Canadian film director. Shebib is a central figure in the development of English Canadian cinema who made several short documentaries for the National Film Board of Canada and CBC Televisi ...
produced films such as "San Francisco Summer 1967" and "
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" for the program.
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's documentary "Vietnam, Last Reflections on a War" was also featured.
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wrote a theme son
(page 5)
''The Way It Is'' was cancelled in 1969 by
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when he became chief of the CBC's news and public affairs.


Scheduling

This hour-long program was broadcast on Sundays at 10:00 p.m. (Eastern). Its first season ran from 24 September 1967 to 23 June 1968, then its second season was from 29 September 1968 to 29 June 1969.


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