Kirstine Stewart is a Canadian

Canada

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 television executive, currently the head of English language services at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly known as CBC and officially as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian crown corporation that serves as the national public radio and television broadcaster...

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She first joined the CBC in 2006 as executive director of programming

Program director

In service industries, such as education, a program director or programme director researches, plans, develops and implements one or more of the firm's professional services...

 for CBC Television

CBC Television

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. Known as Kirstine Layfield at the time, she later returned to using her birth surname, Stewart, after a divorce. Prior to joining the CBC, she was head of programming for 4 Lifestyle Alliance Atlantis

Alliance Atlantis

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 cable channels after returning from the United States

United States

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, where she headed up the international television broadcasting for all Hallmark Channel

Hallmark Channel

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s worldwide.

Her tenure with CBC Television was noted for popular series such as Little Mosque on the Prairie

Little Mosque on the Prairie

Little Mosque on the Prairie is a Canadian sitcom on CBC, created by Zarqa Nawaz and produced by WestWind Pictures. It is filmed in Toronto, Ontario and Indian Head, Saskatchewan...

, Dragons' Den

Dragons' Den (Canada)

Dragons' Den is a Canadian television reality show, based on the internationally franchised Dragons' Den format, in which aspiring entrepreneurs pitch business ideas to a panel of venture capitalists in the hopes of securing business financing. The show debuted on October 3, 2006 on CBC Television...

, The Tudors

The Tudors

The Tudors is a Canadian produced historical fiction television series filmed in Ireland, created by Michael Hirst and produced for the American premium cable television channel Showtime...

, Test the Nation

Test the Nation

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and Being Erica, which revived the network's prime time ratings after a number of years of decline.

She is married to actor Zaib Shaikh

Zaib Shaikh

Zaib Shaikh is a Canadian actor, writer and director. He is best known for his current roles as Amaar Rashid, an imam in the CBC Television sitcom Little Mosque on the Prairie, and Jayesh in Metropia, an evening soap opera broadcast on Omni Television....

, the star of Little Mosque.