Street Cents (1989)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.
Connie Walker
Self - Host
Benita Ha
Self - Co-Host
Jonathan Torrens
Self - Co-Host
John Nowlan
Creator / Director / Writer
Jamie Bradley
Self - Co-Host
Anna Dirksen
Self - Co-Host
Brian Heighton
Ken Pompadour
Riva Di Paola
Self - Host
Kim D'Eon
Actress
Michael Scholar Jr.
Actor
Andria Wilson Mirza
Dancer
Andria Wilson
Dancer
Paul Mathers-MacLeod
Angry Tuition Guy
Shayne Douglas Taylor
Boy / Young Tiger Woods
Demore Barnes
Self - Co-Host
Henry Sawyer-Foner
Director
Mike Clattenburg
Field Director
Rae Clark
Self - Host
Barbara Kennedy
Producer
Wendy Purves
Executive Producer
Jon Finkelstein
Producer
Andrea Dorfman
Writer
Louise Moon
Writer
Gary Vermier
Writer
Chris Lydon
Self - Co-Host
Media.
Details.
Release DateMarch 18, 1989
StatusIn Production
Seasons17
Episodes85
Running Time30m
Genres
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This TV Show Is About.
Wiki.
Street Cents is a newsmagazine TV series directed at teenagers that originally aired on CBC Television between 1989 and 2006. Street Cents focused on consumer and media awareness for young people. The series was created by producer John Nowlan. He cites Britain's Pocket Money as one of the inspirations for Street Cents. The show has won several Gemini Awards and even an International Emmy for Best Youth Programming or Series. The series was lauded by critics for its efforts to be inclusive and representative of Canada's youth. The theme song for several seasons was "Where Does My Money Go?" by Thrush Hermit.Like CBC's Marketplace, the show aired without commercial interruption, because the producers did not want the bias of advertising revenue to affect the potential criticism of the advertisers' products and/or services. The show promoted safety and ethics and action while empowering young people. Sponsor logos were briefly seen in the end credits of episodes in a manner akin to public television in the United States.
In August 2006, the network airing Street Cents, CBC Television, decided to cancel the series as its target demographic, teens and preteens, have shown a decline of viewership. The last episode aired October 1, 2006 leaving CBC-TV with no programs aimed at its target demographic.
One of the original hosts of the show, Jonathan Torrens, started a YouTube reboot of the series in 2019 called Your Two Cents. The CBC subsequently announced its own revival of the Street Cents brand as a TikTok account in 2022, hosted by Anisha Joshi, Mercedes Gaztambide and Ian (Creo) Walters.