Prime Time News

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A news show made up of one or more documentaries, each longer than a news segment on the nightly news. Frequently showcases investigative journalism. Also known as "newsmagazines" because of the long format of their stories.

Not to be confused with CBC Television's early-90's experiment of running The National and The Journal back-to-back at 9 p.m., although The Journal was a documentary program.

Examples of Prime Time News include:

• 60 Minutes
• 48 Hours Mystery
• Twenty Twenty
• Dateline
• Rock Center
• This Hour Has 7 Days
• The Fifth Estate
• W 5
• Uwaga

Being such an iconic format, it has naturally been subjected several times to Parody and Satire. The most notable of these are:

• Brass Eye
• Frontline
• FYI, the Show Within a Show from Murphy Brown.