Prime Time News

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:


 * Sixty 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.