[4] Its original host was Patrick Watson,[1] who left in 1987 to work on the documentary series The Struggle for Democracy.
[5] He was succeeded by Robert Scully,[6] whose concurrent hosting of the news talk show Scully Rencontre on Télévision de Radio-Canada made him the first person in Canadian television history to simultaneously host programs on both the English and French services of the CBC.
Venture's special features included a recurring documentary series called Back to the Floor, in which a chief executive officer works at an entry-level job within their own company for a day.
[11] In the show's final season, Buckner was also concurrently host of Dragons' Den, CBC's new reality series centred on entrepreneurship.
[12] On April 4, 2007, CBC announced the cancellation of Venture.