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12 unusual facts about TVOntario


Almas Bawar Zakhilwal

He frequently appears as a current events commentator on various Canadian media outlets, including CBC Television, CTV, CPAC, Global National and TVOntario.

Damian The Hypnotist

His work has appeared on major television networks, including HBO, CTV, TVO, TSN and Global.

Jed MacKay

He began his career writing for TVOntario's long-running success Polka Dot Door, for which he was honoured with a Masterworks Award by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television in 2010, and CBC's Homemade Television, winner of the Children's Broadcast Institute prize for Best Children's Show.

Jim Dator

In the 1970s, while teaching at the University of Toronto, Dator was hired by Canadian educational television network TVOntario, to work on educational programming related to futurism.

Julie Zwillich

Zwillich was a host on the popular TVOKids live broadcast from 1999–2002 and went on to host BrainBounce! on TV Ontario and Discovery UK, and the sports show SWEAT on OLN and TSN.

She is the host of Food Network Canada's Summer's Best and CBC's Surprise! It's Edible Incredible! She became a television personality in 1997 with the debut of Stuff, which aired on TVOntario, ABC Australia, across Asia and South America, and on the WAM! network in the US.

Lisa de Wilde

Lisa de Wilde is a Canadian film and television executive and has been the CEO of TVOntario since 2005.

Michael Kinney

In the late 1990s, Kinney was a producer and host on Inquiring Minds, a nonfiction children's television show on TVOntario that presented scientific concepts.

Moze Mossanen

During the same year, Mossanen also wrote, produced and directed The Dancemakers, an innovative series of six half-hour programs on contemporary choreographers which aired on the CBC, TVOntario, and on networks in Europe, Asia and Australia.

Pay Chen

She moved to Toronto to attend Ryerson University, later working in writing and production roles for television series produced by Treehouse TV, YTV, and TVOntario.

Sergei M. Plekhanov

Since his arrival in Canada in 1993, he has been a frequent commentator on Russian and East European affairs for Canadian TV, radio networks, and print media, including TVO's Studio 2, The Agenda, CBC News, CBC's The Sunday Edition and CTV News.

TVOntario

Episodes of The Prisoner were hosted by journalist Warner Troyer whose segments included interviews with the actors and a discussion of various psychological, philosophical or sociological themes regarding the series.


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Allan Gregg in Conversation with...

Allan Gregg in Conversation with... is a Canadian television series on TVOntario, hosted by Allan Gregg who interviews various authors, artists and leading thinkers.

Chris McKhool

He has also enjoyed a successful career performing for young audiences, appearing on television shows such as Mr. Dressup, YTV's Treehouse, TVOntario's Crawlspace and the CBC, as well as concerts across Canada.

Elwy Yost

When Yost retired from TVOntario in 1999, a copy of the library of interviews was donated to the Motion Picture Academy.

Gerard Parkes

After Fraggle Rock, in addition to returning as Doc in A Muppet Family Christmas, Parkes continued to work in children's television, guest starring as alcoholic photographer Phil (opposite Sesame Park puppeteer Nina Keogh) on the TVOntario puppet series Today's Special, and appearing regularly on PBS's Shining Time Station as store owner Barton Winslow.

Graham Yost

Born in Etobicoke, he is the son of Canadian television personality Elwy Yost, the longtime host of the public broadcaster TVOntario's Saturday Night at the Movies.

Guy Big

Before his death he filmed a television adaptation of Isaac Asimov's "The Ugly Little Boy" which aired in 1977 on TVOntario.

Janice Stein

Janice Stein was a long-time member of the foreign affairs panel on the TVOntario television programs Studio 2 and Diplomatic Immunity, and continues as a regular guest on The Agenda.

Jim Butterfield

In 1983, Butterfield appeared as the resident expert in the TVOntario educational television program, The Academy, which served as a companion series to Bits and Bytes.

Les Voyages du tortillard

The English version aired in Canada on the Global Television Network and TVOntario in the late 1970s, and in the United States on The Great Space Coaster in the early 1980s.

Magic Shadows

Magic Shadows was a 30-min Canadian television series produced by the TVOntario public television network hosted by Elwy Yost that ran on weekday evenings in the 1970s and 1980s.

Raw Opium

Produced by Kensington Communications Inc. in association with TVO, Canal D (owned by Astral Media), SCN, CTV Two, ZDF-ARTE, and SBS-TV Australia.

Ruth Grier

Afterwards, she was a regular panelist on Fourth Reading, on the TVOntario program Studio 2.

Shelagh Rogers

) During this time, Rogers was also a contributor to TVOntario's book program Imprint, and host of Saturday Night at the Movies.

Simon Schama's Power of Art

It aired in Poland on TVP2 in February and March 2008, on PBS in the US and re -broadcast in September 2008 on TVOntario in Canada, ABC1 in Australia, Australia Network in the Asia-Pacific region, TV ONE in New Zealand and on ET1 in Greece.

Skooled

Skooled is a Canadian children’s educational television series produced by Toronto production company Breakthrough Films & Television and originally broadcast on TVOntario in Canada, and syndicated to other networks throughout the world.

The Secret City Adventures

The series was produced by Maryland Public Television and aired on PBS and TVOntario in the late 1980s.

Writers Guild of Canada

In addition to the IPA, the Guild also has agreements in place with the APFTQ, CBC Radio, CBC Television, CTV, the NFB and TVOntario.