Daily Planet is a television program on Discovery Channel Canada which features daily news, discussion and commentary on the scientific aspects of current events and discoveries. The show first aired as @discovery.ca in 1995. It was renamed to Daily Planet in 2002. The show relaunched in high definition in 2011. From June 2012 until the show ended in May 2018, the hosts were Ziya Tong and Dan Riskin. Daily Planet aired on Discovery Channel Canada, Monday through Friday at 7 p.m.EST (Monday through Friday at 4 p.m.PST) as of September 4, 2012. The show was canceled by Bell Media on May 23, 2018 and its final episode aired on June 5, 2018. History Daily Planet first aired on January 1, 1995, the same day as the premiere of Discovery Channel Canada, under the name @discovery.ca, it was an hour-long daily news magazine with a science news segment and several feature segments. During this era, the show aired for the fall/winter season. The summer season aired the variant show Summer@discovery.ca, with the daily science news segment, and repeats of feature segments from the fall/winter season in a half-hour format. On September 30, 2002, it was relaunched as Daily Planet, adopting a "science magazine" programming format. Jay Ingram, who hosted the show since Discovery Channel Canada's inception, announced his retirement on May 16, 2011. Daily Planet: Jay's Last Show aired on Sunday, June 5, 2011, which paid tribute to the host with flashbacks and guest segments. Previous co-hosts include Gill Deacon (1996-2002), Natasha Stillwell, who left the show on February 2, 2007, temporary co-host Patty Kim, and Kim Jagtiani, who left in September 2008. Set design During the summer of 2002, the set was completely remade for the name change from @discovery.ca to Daily Planet. During the summer of 2006, the set of Daily Planet was completely made over. On the season premiere in September, the end of the show was about the rebuilding of the set. During the summer of 2011 the set was rebuilt to accommodate the relaunch of the show in high definition on August 29, 2011. Foreign versions An American version of the series, Science Daily, which was based in Washington, DC, aired on the Discovery-owned digital channel The Science Channel (then branded Discovery Science Channel) from 2000–2001, during the @discovery.ca era. Patty Kim hosted from Washington, DC. A weekly version called Discoveries This Week, hosted by Dan