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Distinguished Artists is a Canadian interview television series, with no particular focus within the arts and entertainment industry. It profiles big names in music, comedy, drama, and literature. Image File history File links Frohmanandcronenberg. ... Image File history File links Frohmanandcronenberg. ... Music is a form of art and entertainment or other human activity that involves organized and audible sounds and silence. ... Comedy has a classical meaning (comical theatre) and a popular one (the use of humour with an intent to provoke laughter in general). ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Old book bindings at the Merton College library. ...

Hosted by Emmy Award-winning writer Lorne Frohman, this interview series is filmed in front of an audience at Assembly Hall, near Humber College Lakeshore Campus. The format focuses around a main interview, then allowing the primarily student audience to ask questions in the time following the main segment (in a style similar to the American program Inside the Actors Studio). An Emmy Award. ... Lorne Frohman is an award-winning writer and producer of feature films, variety shows, and sitcoms. ... Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning (generally referred to as Humber College) is a college in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... Taken before a taping of Inside the Actors Studio at the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University Inside the Actors Studio is the Emmy-nominated, longest-running original series on the Bravo cable television channel, hosted by James Lipton. ...

Distinguished Artists is in fact the first network television show produced entirely by students of a college or university ^{(dubious assertion—see talk page)} . Co-produced with TVO, the Humber School of Media Studies & Information Technology created, produced, wrote, shot and edited the series. Music students from the Humber School of Creative and Performing Arts wrote, arranged, and performed the series' theme song.

Episodes debuted at 4 p.m. Saturdays on TVOntario, airing again the next day. The series aired in the 2005-2006 season on CHUM-owned television station BookTelevision. At one point in 2006, it was also airing on Canadian Learning Television. For the program on C-SPAN go to Book TV Book Television is a Canadian category 1 digital cable specialty channel dedicated to books. ... Canadian Learning Television or CLT is a Canadian cable specialty television channel. ...

As of 2006, the show is no longer aired on TVO, and airs only on BookTelevision. For the program on C-SPAN go to Book TV Book Television is a Canadian category 1 digital cable specialty channel dedicated to books. ...

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