The Passionate Eye: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

The Passionate Eye is Canada's longest-running national showcase for independent documentaries. For 23 years, it's provided Canadians with a critical window on the world, exploring international events and people through timely and provocative award-winning documentaries. Passionate Eye documentaries have won every major award including Emmy's, Oscars, Peabodys and Geminis, but they've also made news... films like Hunted in Russia, Holy Money, Invisible War, and Putin's Games, to name just a few from last season. Today The Passionate Eye remains one of the only documentary strands in Canada where viewers can still see a selection of the world's best and most newsworthy political and social issue documentaries.

Series details

• Title: The Passionate Eye
• Format: Documentary
• Language: English
• Premiere date: 1992-09-12
• Status in TVmaze: Running
• Network listed by TVmaze: CBC News Network
• Network country: Canada
• Typical episode runtime: 90 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 13212
• IMDb ID: tt0363360
• TVDB ID: 85423

Cast and credited roles

• Wendy Mesley — Host

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 1992-09-12; final listed air date 1993-07-24; episode order: 31.
• Season 2: premiered 1993-09-11; final listed air date 1994-06-05; episode order: 28.
• Season 3: premiered 1994-09-18; final listed air date 1995-05-28; episode order: 25.
• Season 4: premiered 1995-09-17; final listed air date 1996-05-12; episode order: 29.
• Season 5: premiered 1996-09-15; final listed air date 1997-06-29; episode order: 30.
• Season 6: premiered 1997-09-07; final listed air date 1998-08-30; episode order: 33.
• Season 7: premiered 1998-09-26; final listed air date 1999-07-25; episode order: 44.
• Season 8: premiered 1999-09-05; final listed air date 2000-09-03; episode order: 50.
• Season 9: premiered 2000-09-11; final listed air date 2001-08-23; episode order: 73.
• Season 10: premiered 2001-09-30; final listed air date 2002-09-01; episode order: 56.
• Season 11: premiered 2002-09-29; final listed air date 2003-09-07; episode order: 57.
• Season 12: premiered 2003-10-05; final listed air date 2004-08-10; episode order: 66.
• Season 13: premiered 2004-09-13; final listed air date 2005-09-19; episode order: 60.
• Season 14: premiered 2005-09-22; final listed air date 2006-09-06; episode order: 71.
• Season 15: premiered 2006-10-01; final listed air date 2007-07-16; episode order: 11.
• Season 16: premiered 2007-11-11; final listed air date 2008-06-15; episode order: 13.
• Season 17: premiered 2008-10-19; final listed air date 2009-07-06; episode order: 4.
• Season 18: premiered 2009-09-07; final listed air date 2010-08-11; episode order: 21.
• Season 19: premiered 2010-09-14; final listed air date 2011-09-28; episode order: 35.
• Season 20: premiered 2011-10-02; final listed air date 2012-06-19; episode order: 35.
• Season 21: premiered 2012-09-23; final listed air date 2013-06-08; episode order: 40.
• Season 22: premiered 2013-10-05; final listed air date 2014-04-14; episode order: 27.
• Season 23: premiered 2011-12-31; final listed air date 2015-06-06; episode order: 21.
• Season 24: premiered 2015-10-04; final listed air date 2016-07-10; episode order: 37.
• Season 25: premiered 2016-09-18; final listed air date 2016-11-20.
• Season 26: premiered 2019-01-05; final listed air date 2019-10-12.
• Season 27: premiered 2020-09-05; final listed air date 2020-10-10.
• Season 30: premiered 2025-10-01; final listed air date 2025-11-05.

Source and licence

Adapted from The Passionate Eye on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.