''Adrienne Clarkson Presents'' is a Canadian cultural entertainment series broadcast on
CBC Television
CBC Television (also known as CBC TV, or simply CBC) is a Television in Canada, Canadian English-language terrestrial television, broadcast television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcasting, p ...
beginning in 1988. The series ended in 1999, the year host
Adrienne Clarkson
Adrienne Louise Clarkson ( zh, c=伍冰枝; ; born February 10, 1939) is a Canadian journalist and stateswoman who served as the 26th governor general of Canada from 1999 to 2005.
Clarkson arrived in Canada with her family in 1941, as a refuge ...
was appointed
Governor General of Canada
The governor general of Canada () is the federal representative of the . The monarch of Canada is also sovereign and head of state of 14 other Commonwealth realms and resides in the United Kingdom. The monarch, on the Advice (constitutional la ...
.
Episodes featured artists such as
Molly Johnson
Margaret Leslie "Molly" Johnson, Order of Canada, OC is a Canadian singer of pop and jazz.
Biography
Johnson began as a child performer, receiving formal training from the National Ballet School and the Banff School of Fine Arts. Johnson's b ...
,
Quartette, and
Peppiatt and Aylesworth. The series was preceded by a limited 1988 summer programme, ''Adrienne Clarkson's Summer Festival''.
External links
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TVArchive.ca: ''Adrienne Clarkson Presents''Adrienne Clarkson Presents: A Tribute to Peppiatt & Aylesworth: Canada's First Television Comedy Team
1988 Canadian television series debuts
1999 Canadian television series endings
CBC Television original programming
1980s Canadian variety television series
1990s Canadian variety television series
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