Daily Planet (TV series)

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Daily Planet is a television program on Discovery Channel Canada and CTV, which features daily news, discussion and commentary on the scientific aspects of current events. It is the only program of its type in the world.^{[citation needed]} It first aired on January 1, 1995, the same day as the premiere of Discovery Channel, under the name @discovery.ca. On September 30, 2002, it was relaunched as Daily Planet, adopting a "science magazine" programming format.

During the summer of 2006, the set of Daily Planet was completely made over. On the season premiere in September, the end of the show was about the rebuilding of the set.

The hosts of Daily Planet are currently Jay Ingram and Natasha Stillwell.

An American version of the series, Science Today, briefly aired on the Discovery-owned digital channel The Science Channel (then branded Discovery Science) during the late 1990s, during the @discovery.ca era. Presently, a weekly version called Discoveries This Week, hosted by Dan Duran, airs on that channel.

International versions of Daily Planet are also produced for Discovery Channel Latin America and Discovery Channel Asia.

1 Programming segments
- 1.1 Former Programming Segments
2 List of hosts
3 External links

[edit] Programming segments

Behind the Scenes - Natasha Stillwell goes to commercial/industrial facility to explain the workings of everyday items/service, similar to How It's Made.
Fact of the Matter - Featuring various physicists to explain physical phenomena.
Jay's Journal - Jay Ingram's editorial column, discussing implications of information in science news.
Mindbender - A prized contest involving correctly answering the questions shown in the segment. It originally has 6 questions, and later reduced to 5, then 4 in Daily Planet era. As of 2005-2006 season, there are only 3 questions, with a warm-up question before the contest.
Science And The City - Alan Nursall goes to public places to demonstrate physical phenomena by inviting public into performing experiments
Shannon's Gadgets - Shannon Bentley rates science's latest techno offerings.
Starstruck - Ivan Semeniuk's weekly space column
You Asked For It - @discovery.ca segment answering scientific questions from viewers. It was eventually turned into a separate half-hour show. In the Daily Planet era, it was relaunched in 2005-2006 season as 'Planet Q'.

[edit] Former Programming Segments

Joe's chemistry set (1995-2002) - Joe Schwarcz performs chemical experients to explain chemical phenomena. It was eventually split into a 13-episode series named Science To Go.
Weird and Wonderful Science (?-2002) - Originally called 'Weird Science', it featured Richard Wassersug introducing strange scientific phenomena.