What's On

What's On (Traditional Chinese: 熒幕八爪娛) is a weekly half-hour infotainment TV series that airs on Fairchild TV.

Format

Originally started in 1996, the show is currently the longest-running program in Fairchild Television history. What's On is a 30-minute informative program that introduces viewers to events happening in and around Vancouver and Toronto. It also runs short interviews with local celebrities, politicians and social figures for events they are contributing to, as well as interviews with international celebrities as they arrive in the city to promote or to perform.

Originally, there were two versions of the show. The Vancouver version and Toronto version ran in the same time slot in their respective cities on Thursday nights at 10:00 p.m. while the version of the opposite city ran on Saturdays at 6:00 p.m. However, because of the CRTC's ruling requiring Fairchild TV to air the same programming throughout the country, the two shows combined into one in July 2001 with each city getting 15 minutes of airtime. This also meant the start of the "interactive" format of the show where the hosts from the two cities shared a brief interaction as the scenes change from one city to another.

What's On (1950s TV series)

What's On was an Australian television series, which aired in Melbourne on station HSV-7. The short-lived weekly series aired on Wednesdays from 29 July 1959 to 14 October 1959, and was hosted by Jean Battersby. Each episode was about 13 minutes long. According to TV listings in The Age newspaper, the series presented a round-up of stage and film entertainment in the Melbourne area.

The archival status of the series is unknown.

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