This Hour Has 22 Minutes

This Hour Has 22 Minutes

Sep. 28, 2009
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Seasons and episodes

26Season 26 Nov. 21, 2024
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27Season 27 Nov. 21, 2024
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28Season 28 Oct. 06, 2020
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29Season 29 Sep. 14, 2021
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30Season 30 Sep. 13, 2022
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31Season 31 Sep. 19, 2023
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32Season 32 Sep. 17, 2024

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Synopsis

This Hour Has 22 Minutes is a weekly Canadian television comedy that airs on CBC Television. Launched in 1993 during Canada’s 35th general election, the show focuses on Canadian politics, combining news parody, sketch comedy and satirical editorials. Originally featuring Cathy Jones, Rick Mercer, Greg Thomey and Mary Walsh, the series featured satirical sketches of the weekly news and Canadian political events. The show’s format is a mock news program, intercut with comic sketches, parody commercials and humorous interviews of public figures. The on-location segments are frequently filmed with slanted camera angles.

Its full name is a parody of This Hour Has Seven Days, a CBC newsmagazine from the 1960s; the “22 Minutes” refers to the fact that a half-hour television program in Canada and the U.S. is typically 22 minutes long with eight minutes of commercials.

Jones and Walsh had previously worked together on the sketch comedy series CODCO, on which Thomey sometimes appeared as a guest. Mercer had been a notable young writer and performer on his own, touring several successful one-man shows of comedic political commentary.

Original title This Hour Has 22 Minutes
TMDb Rating 6.9
First air date Sep. 28, 2009
Last air date Apr. 02, 2024
Average Duration 22 minutes

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