TORONTO – North America’s longest-running investigative journalism series, W5, will open its 50th season on October 3 on CTV.
Launched in 1966 to deliver tough, relevant stories guided by fair and responsible reporting, W5 was a forerunner and direct inspiration to CBS' acclaimed 60 Minutes. W5 moves into its 50th season of entertaining, informing, and educating Canadians upholding its commitment to first-rate investigative journalism with a team that includes host and chief correspondent Lloyd Robertson, along with Kevin Newman, Victor Malarek, Tom Kennedy, Lisa LaFlamme and Sandie Rinaldo.
Premiering October 3 at 7:00 PM ET/PT on CTV, CTV Go, and CTVNews.ca, W5 investigates the impact that readily accessible, hard-core online pornography is having on the minds and lives of young Canadian boys in ‘Generation XXX’. The report has senior reporter Victor Malarek documenting one family’s struggle to help their pre-teen son break his all-consuming addiction to internet porn.
In the evening’s second story, W5 examines the illegal use of fentanyl, a pain-killing drug reported to be 80 to 100 times more powerful than morphine. In a relatively short time on the black market, trade in fentanyl has already claimed hundreds of lives across the country, and the numbers are rising daily. In ‘Kill Pill’, co-host and correspondent Kevin Newman meets devastated families, a young man fighting his addiction, and police and medical professionals scrambling to deal with this burgeoning epidemic.
W5 also airs Saturdays at 10:00 PM ET and Sundays at 5:00 PM ET on CTV Two, at 7:00 PM ET on CTV News Channel, on Investigation Discovery, on demand at CTVNews.ca/W5, on the CTV News Go app, the CTV Mobile channel on Bell Mobile TV, and through select video on demand partners.
