Road_Movies_(TV_series)
Road Movies is a Canadian television series, which aired on CBC Television in 1992.[1] The series sent eight young Canadians to locations throughout Canada, to create short reports on local life and culture for television broadcast.[2]
The videographers were Heather Barrett, Ngaire Blankenberg, Maureen Bradley, Pat Harrison, Eli Laliberte, Duncan McCue, David Ozier and Kam Rao.[3] Three additional reporters — Katerina Cizek, Matt Gallagher and Howie Woo — were also named as "backup" videographers in the event that one or more members of the main team had to drop out during production,[3] although none of them ultimately appeared on the show.
The series was based on the Télévision de Radio-Canada series La Course destination monde, but dropped the competitive element from the original series to become effectively just a documentary newsmagazine.[4] Bradley made a film during the series coming out as LGBTQ, becoming one of the first Canadian television personalities to come out in a Canadian non-fiction television series.[5]
The series premiered in June 1992.[2] The original run of 26 episodes was scheduled to end in December,[3] although due to various schedule changes and specials during the year the final episodes actually aired in January 1993.[6] The show was not renewed for a second season.[7]