 | | | | CBC News examined the phenomenon that is the 1975 movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show as a 50th anniversary celebration has been touring across Canada. A cultural studies lecturer at the University of British Columbia told CBC he'd learned that it was "a point of entry into queerness" for some 2SLGBTQ+ people.
For the film's 10th anniversary in 1985, correspondent Allen Garr took viewers of CBC's The Journal inside a raucous midnight screening in New York City. The audience came armed with props that included water pistols and umbrellas.
Writer Richard O'Brien, who also appeared in the movie as the character Riff Raff, said he was surprised by the show's success. “I didn't think as many people laughed at B movies as [I] did," he said. "And that was naive of me, wasn't it?” | | |  | | | | Dragons' Den, the show in which entrepreneurs pitch their businesses to a panel of experts and potential investors, marks its 20th season on CBC this year.
But Dragons' Den has an on-air prececessor that sometimes looked at Canadian entrepreneurs: the CBC business program Venture. In 1993, it featured a panel of three people who were advising a retired educator who was looking to market the Spike Jug, his solution to the problem of messy milk bags.
"They recognized a great idea, but there's lots of those gathering dust in inventors' garages," said host Robert Scully. "It's a big stretch from high school principal to inventor to entrepreneur." | | | |
