Editing This Hour Has Seven Days (section)

{{Short description|1960s Canadian television news magazine}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2021}}
{{More citations needed|date=June 2008}}
{{Infobox television
| image = 
| caption =
| genre = [[News magazine]]
| runtime =  60 minutes
| creator = [[Patrick Watson (producer)|Patrick Watson]]<br />Douglas Leiterman
| presenter = [[John Drainie]]<br />[[Laurier LaPierre]]<br />[[Patrick Watson (producer)|Patrick Watson]]<br />[[Dinah Christie]]
| country = Canada
| network = [[CBC Television]]
| num_episodes =  50
| first_aired = {{start date|1964|10|04}}
| last_aired = {{end date|1966|05|08}}
}}
'''''This Hour Has Seven Days''''' was a [[CBC Television]] [[public affairs program]] that ran from 1964 to 1966, offering viewers in-depth analysis of the major social and political stories of the previous week.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Corcelli|first=John|date=April 2002|title=This Hour Has Seven Days|url=https://www.broadcasting-history.ca/programming/television/hour-has-seven-days|access-date=May 19, 2021|website=History of Canadian Broadcasting}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=EDMONDS|first=ALAN|title=THE SHOW THAT SURVIVES BY SUCCESS ALONE . . . {{!}} Maclean's {{!}} March 5, 1966|url=https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1966/3/5/the-show-that-survives-by-success-alone-|access-date=May 19, 2021|website=Maclean's {{!}} The Complete Archive|language=en-US}}</ref>

The show, inspired by the [[BBC-TV|BBC]] and [[NBC-TV]] [[satire]] series ''[[That Was the Week That Was]]'', was created by [[Patrick Watson (producer)|Patrick Watson]] and [[Douglas Leiterman]] as an avenue for a more stimulating and boundary-pushing brand of [[Broadcast journalism|television journalism]].<ref name=":0" /> CBC executives believed the controversial show went beyond the limits of [[journalistic ethics]] and cancelled the show, leading to allegations of political interference.<ref name=":1" />

The show set new standards of [[broadcast journalism]] in Canada and the United States, and many of its elements inspired the [[tabloid talk show]] genre in later decades.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />