A Suitable Boy

A SUITABLE BOY (6X60) is directed by acclaimed filmmaker Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding). Set in vibrant 1950s India, this witty story of romance follows Lata, a spirited 19-year-old university student whose life seems to be already mapped out by stuffy old traditions, and an overbearing mother who wants to find her a suitable husband. Full of sparkling humour, A SUITABLE BOY is adapted from Vikram Seths modern classic by BAFTA and Emmy-winning writer Andrew Davies.

Absolutely Canadian

Absolutely Canadian is a one-hour series showcasing the best in independent regional documentary and independent filmmaking from across Canada.

All Creatures Great and Small

ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL (7x60) follows James Herriot, fresh out of Glasgow Veterinary College, as he pursues his dream to become a vet in the magnificent Yorkshire Dales. He soon discovers that treating the animals is as much about treating their owners, and the Dales famers are a tough crowd to please. At Skeldale House, James gets to know his newly formed dysfunctional family; his chaotic and erratic boss Siegfried Farnon, Siegfrieds wayward brother Tristan and the shrewd Mrs Hall who is endlessly steering the ship. When local beauty Helen Alderson attracts Jamess attention he finds another, more enduring reason to stay in the Dales.

Allegiance

ALLEGIANCE is a character-driven police procedural about identity and belonging, policing and politics, and finding truth within the heart of a flawed justice system. The drama stars Supinder Wraich as Sabrina Sohal, a star rookie police officer who must grapple with the limits of the justice system as she fights to exonerate her politician father Ajeet Sohal (played by Stephen Lobo). Sohal serves her diverse hometown of Surrey, BC alongside Vince Brambilla (played by Enrico Colantoni), a veteran training officer who sees her potential but doesnt always agree with her forward-thinking methods. ALLEGIANCE is the story of a young woman caught between her allegiance to her flag, to her badge, and to her family.

Baroness von Sketch Show

BARONESS VON SKETCH SHOW is an all-female; single-camera sketch comedy series that takes a fresh look at the world's narcissistic contemporary culture.

Because News

Because News: Canada's funniest news quiz with host Gavin Crawford.

Black Life: Untold Stories

Black Life: A Canadian History is a sweeping eight-part docuseries exploring the rich history of the Black experience in Canada.

BlackBerry

Directed by Matt Johnson (Nirvanna the Band the Show), BLACKBERRY (Premieres Fall 2023, 3x60, Rhombus Media and Zapruder Films) follows the story of Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, the two men who charted the course of the spectacular rise and catastrophic demise of the worlds first smartphone.

Bollywed

BOLLYWED is a heartwarming docu-series centred around the Singh family, who have been operating the iconic bridal shop, Chandan Fashion, in Torontos Little India for almost 40 years. The series shines a fascinating light on the booming and glamorous world of South Asian culture and fashion, and offers an authentic glimpse into an intergenerationally run business led by father Kuki Singh, his wife Sarab, and their two children Chandan and Chandni, and daughter-in-law Roop.

Bones of Crows

BONES OF CROWS (Premiered 2023-24; 5x60; Marie Clements Media, Screen Siren Pictures and Grana Productions) is a five-part hour-long drama told through the eyes of Cree Matriarch, Aline Spears (played throughout her life by Summer Testawich; Grace Dove, Monkey Beach; and Carla Rae, Rutherford Falls), as she survives Canadas residential school system to continue her familys generational fight in the face of systemic starvation, racism, and sexual abuse. The series is an expanded story from the feature film version; a truly epic tale that spans over a hundred years and multiple generations of the Spears family, the series connects and deepens the events of the past with a cumulative force that propels us into the future with power.

Canada’s Ultimate Challenge

Canadas Ultimate Challenge is a seven-episode original reality competition format series which turns Canada into a giant obstacle course.

Catastrophe

Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan write and star in CATASTROPHE, a comedy following an Irish woman and an American man who make a bloody mess as they struggle to fall in love in London. Season 4 debuts January 3, 2023.

CBC Arts: Exhibitionists

CBC ARTS: EXHIBITIONISTS is a vibrant 30-minute hosted series that pulls back the curtain on people who create, and why they do it.

CBC Docs POV

CBC-TV's new docs strand, will introduce Canadians to content from some of Canada's most talented documentary filmmakers.

CBC FILMS

CBC FILMS encompasses the national public broadcasters continued investment in Canadian cinema and spans film initiatives including funding, pre-buys and acquisitions for CBC broadcast and streaming platforms.

Comedy Night with Rick Mercer

COMEDY NIGHT WITH RICK MERCER (8x60, Just For Laughs TV and Counterfeit Pictures) is a Canadian comedy event to remember, composed of eight unforgettable one-hour specials presented by legendary comedy icon and TV personality, Rick Mercer.

Coronation Street

Set in the fictional town of Weatherfield, CORONATION STREET - the longest-running British soap opera in television history - portrays the everyday life of a working-class British community.

Coroner

Inspired by the best-selling series of books by M.R. Hall and created by Morwyn Brebner (Saving Hope), CORONER (12x60) is a character-driven one-hour drama about Dr. Jenny Cooper (SERINDA SWAN), a recently widowed new coroner who investigates suspicious, unnatural or sudden deaths in Toronto.

Diggstown

Created by Floyd Kane (Across the Line), who served as showrunner and executive producer, DIGGSTOWN was an authentic legal drama that, since its series premiere in 2019 on CBC, highlighted the very real inequities that exist in the Canadian legal system and never shied away from delving into issues of class, race, and gender. Its third season's birth alert storyline was an eye opener for many. A few short weeks after the episode aired, but after years of lobbying, the province of Nova Scotia dropped the controversial practice; one of the last Canadian provinces to do so.

Dragons’ Den

Dragons Den offers audiences a front-row view as the country's top business moguls wheel and deal with entrepreneurs who dare to brave The Den.

Essex County

ESSEX COUNTY (5x60; First Generation Films) is a five-part limited series based on the brilliant graphic novel by Jeff Lemire. A redemptive tale of family, ESSEX COUNTY tells the story of four disparate characters linked together through bloodlines. From old Uncle Lou, to young Lester, to Anne the country nurse and Ken, the stoic farmer, the four lead characters ebb and flow into each others lives, slowly weaving connections between them that ultimately save and redeem them.

Family Feud Canada

The hit game show welcomes Canadian families to the stage with host Gerry Dee. Family Feud Canada invites a diverse range of families to go head-to-head to answer the most popular answer to fun survey questions with a uniquely Canadian twist, for a chance to take home up to $30,000 per family. The show provides brands with high visibility through natural in-show integration opportunities. As families vie to score points and win prizes, their unexpected answers to the simplest questions makes the show full of unpredictable, and memorable TV moments! First introduced in the U.S. in 1976, the much-loved game show has been picked up in 71 international markets to date including the United Kingdom, Australia, France, India, Indonesia, and the United States.

Ha!ifax Comedy Fest

The series features the best in standup comedy from Canada and the United States hosted by Mark Critch.

Heartland

Set against the glorious backdrop of the foothills of Alberta, HEARTLAND continues to tell stories about characters that Canadians from across the country have grown to love and welcome into their homes.

In The Making

IN THE MAKING (8x30) is an immersive journey inside the artistic process. Host Sean ONeill travels the globe alongside some of Canadas most extraordinary creators as they bring new work to life and face moments of opportunity, challenge and reward.

Just for Laughs

JUST FOR LAUGHS returns to CBC for another series of hour-long stand-up specials, featuring the greatest comedians of the past and present.

Kim’s Convenience

KIM'S CONVENIENCE is the funny, heartfelt story of The Kims, a Korean-Canadian family, running a convenience store in downtown Toronto.

Land and Sea

For more than thirty years Land and Sea has brought you stories from people who live off the land and the sea.

Landscape Artist of the Year Canada

Maamuitaau

Maamuitaau is a current affairs program that brings the stories of the James Bay Crees to life.

Moonshine

Created by Sheri Elwood (Lucifer, Call Me Fitz), MOONSHINE (8x60; Fall 2022) is back for Season 3. Lidia emerges from a long winter barely recognizable in full-on Lebowski mode. The build of a luxury resort next door threatens the Moonshine and may be just what she needs to return to herself.

Mr. D

Mr. D is based on the stand-up comedy act of Gerry Dee, who was a teacher for nine years before transitioning to a career in comedy.

Murdoch Mysteries

Set in Toronto at the dawn of the 20th century, MURDOCH MYSTERIES (24x60) is a one-hour drama series that explores the intriguing world of William Murdoch (Yannick Bisson), a methodical and dashing detective who pioneers innovative forensic techniques to solve some of the city's most gruesome murders.

Olympic Games Paris 2024

One More Time

From creator and standup comedian D.J. Demers (The Tonight Show, Conan) and showrunner Jessie Gabe (Workin' Moms, Mr. D), One More Time (Premieres Winter 2024; 13x30; Counterfeit Pictures) is a workplace comedy about a fictionalized and heightened version of D.J. (played by Demers) as the hearing-impaired manager of a second-hand sporting goods store, and the team of "hard-working" employees he leads. D.J.'s optimistic, community-oriented outlook on life is challenged at every turn, as he and his team struggle to keep the small independent shop alive.

Plan B

Pretty Hard Cases

PRETTY HARD CASES (10x60; Winter 2023) is a fun and honest portrayal of two radically different female detectives in their early 40s.

Push

The ground-breaking CBC original docu-series, PUSH, is back for a second season. Pulling back the veil on life as a wheelchair user, PUSH once again takes audiences into the inner world of the Wheelie Peeps, an unlikely group of friends bonded by their shared experience of life on wheels. Season 2 features returning favourites including the groups fearless and unfiltered leader, Bean Gill; Canadas favourite potty-mouthed and self-proclaimed red neck, Brian McPherson; concert pianist, entrepreneur and adventure-seeker, Riccardo Baldini; and more! Nothing is off the table as this bold group of friends tackle everything life throws their way. From the logistics and stigmas of sex with a fellow wheelchair user, to navigating new motherhood as a quad mom, to facing the people and places who knew them pre-injury, Season 2 has the peeps confronting their past, facing their demons and supporting new members of the group through the early days of wheelchair life.

Race Against The Tide

Race Against the Tide is about to make the worlds toughest sand sculpting competition even tougher. Ten world class sand sculpting teams will compete in a head-to-head tournament on the shores of the Bay of Fundy, in New Brunswick. The teams will dig, pound, carve and sculpt through four qualifying rounds

Run The Burbs

Created by comedian, writer and actor Andrew Phung (Kims Convenience) and his best friend and collaborator, filmmaker Scott Townend (The Secret Marathon), Run the Burbs follows the Phams, a young, bold Vietnamese-South Asian-Canadian family taking a different approach to living life to the fullest, while changing the way we think about contemporary family values and life in the burbs.

Schitt’s Creek

SCHITTS CREEK is a half-hour, single-camera comedy starring Eugene Levy, Catherine OHara, Daniel Levy, Annie Murphy, Chris Elliott, Emily Hampshire and Jennifer Robertson. The series follows a wealthy family who suddenly find themselves broke and forced to live in Schitts Creek, a small town they once bought as a joke.

SkyMed

SKYMED (Piazza Entertainment) Life, death, and drama at 20,000 feet, SKYMED is a drama wrapped in high-stakes medical adventure.

Son Of A Critch

Based on the award-winning, best-selling memoir from Mark Critch (This Hour Has 22 Minutes) and created by Critch and Tim McAuliffe (This Hour Has 22 Minutes, The Office (U.S), Last Man on Earth, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon), Son of a Critch is the hilarious and very real story of a young Mark coming of age in St. Johns, Newfoundland. Its a heartfelt window into the life of a child - much older inside than his young years - using comedy and self-deprecation to win friends and connect with the small collection of people in his limited world.

Sort Of

Created by Bilal Baig and Fab Filippo, the award-winning CBC original series SORT OF features Sabi Mehboob (Baig), a gender expansive millennial who is so over-editing themselves to make others comfortable. From love to family to career, Sabi feels like theyre in transition. SORT OF exposes the labels people once poured themselves into as no longer applicableto anyone.

Stay Tooned

STAY TOONED (Premieres Winter 2023; 6x22; Fathom Film Group) Eric Bauza the Canadian who voices legendary characters from Bugs Bunny to Luke Skywalker takes us on a deep dive through our favourite cartoons to see how they shaped us into who we are today. Each episode he meets with friends and experts to explore villains, race, sexuality, and so much more.

Still Standing

Award-winning CBC original series Still Standing follows Canadian comedian Jonny Harris (Murdoch Mysteries) as he sets off across the country to discover the hidden comedy in Canada's far-flung small towns.

Strays

Strays follows Shannon Ross (Nicole Power) from Kims Convenience as the new executive director of the Hamilton East Animal Shelter, where she is boss to an eclectic staff

Stuff The British Stole

STUFF THE BRITISH STOLE (Premieres Winter 2023; 6x30; Wooden Horse, WildBear Entertainment and Cream Productions) is a new six-part series for the ABC and CBC based on award-winning journalist Marc Fennells acclaimed, chart-topping ABC Podcast, also launched by CBC Podcasts in fall 2021.

SUMMIT 72

SUMMIT 72 (Premieres September 14; 4x60; Mercury Films and Impossible Objects).This timely documentary series will tell the definitive story of the legendary 1972 Canada-USSR Summit Series of Hockey upon its 50th anniversary, and through a modern lens explore its legacy and lasting influence on Canadian national identity, framing it against the political and cultural climate of the times in both countries, and around the world.

TallBoyz

TallBoyz is back for a third season to explore everything from infant sleep training to the country's national sport. Measuring in at 252 collectively, Guled Abdi, Vance Banzo, Tim Blair and Franco Nguyen return to skewer popular culture from a very tall point of view. This seasons sketches range from silly, absurdist themes, like an ode to unwanted house pets and pothead heroes, to hard-hitting examinations of privilege, racism, and encounters with the royal family.

The Great Canadian Baking Show

CBCs homegrown take on hit format The Great British Bake Off, The Great Canadian Baking Show brings together 10 amateur bakers from across the country to compete in a series of themed culinary challenges that celebrate their diverse backgrounds, families and communities. Each of the one-hour episodes features three rounds: the Signature Bake, the Technical Bake and the Show Stopper. After the judges taste and critique the bakes, they crown one Star Baker and ask one baker to leave the tent. The final three bakers compete for the Great Canadian Baking Show title. The series is an affirming, warm-spirited competition that celebrates personal achievement and the joy of baking.

The Great Canadian Pottery Throw Down

Ten of Canadas most talented potters compete to be crowned best at the wheel.

The Knowing

A four-part narrative docuseries that follows journalist Tanya Talaga and her familys eight-decade long search for family matriarch Annie Carpenter.

The Legacy Awards

The Legacy Awards features performances, award presentations and tributes honouring both established and emerging Black Canadian talent.

The Nature of Things

The Nature of Things presents dramatic and insightful stories that are driven by a scientific understanding of the world. As TVs longest-running science series celebrating 63 seasons this year, The Nature of Things continues to inspire and entertain audiences by engaging with the people and personalities behind the science and phenomena that shape our world.

The North Water

THE NORTH WATER (Premieres September 12; 6x60; Rhombus Media and See-Saw Films) In 1859, Patrick Sumner (BAFTA winner Jack OConnell, Seberg, Godless) joins The Volunteer as a ships surgeon, hoping to lose himself in the tough physicality of an Arctic whaling trip. But the ferocity of the elements is matched by the violence of his crew mates, with harpooner Drax (Golden Globe winner Colin Farrell, In Bruges, The Batman) a distinctly brutal force of nature. As the true purpose of the expedition becomes clear, confrontation between the two men erupts, taking them on a journey far from solid ground and way beyond the safe moorings of civilization.

The Porter

Inspired by real events and set in the roar of the 1920s, THE PORTER (8x60) follows the journeys of an ensemble of characters who hustle, dream, cross borders and pursue their ambitions in the fight for liberation - on and off the railways that crossed North America. It is a gripping story of empowerment and idealism that highlights the moment when railway workers from both Canada and the United States joined together to give birth to the worlds first Black union. Set primarily in Montreal, Chicago and Detroit as the world rebuilds after the First World War, THE PORTER depicts the Black community in St. Antoine, Montreal - known, at the time, as the Harlem of the North. Theyre young, gifted and Black, from Canada, the Caribbean, and the U.S. via the Underground Railroad and through the Great Migration, and they find themselves thrown together north and south of the colour line, in an era that boasts anything is possible - but if change isnt coming for them, they will come for it. By any means necessary.

The Witness for the Prosecution

THE WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION (3x60) is a three-part BBC miniseries based on the 1925 Agatha Christie short story of the same name, and is a compelling story of deceit and desire, money and morality, innocence and guilt, murder and heartbreak, and most painful and dangerous of all, love. At the center of this dark and tangled net is the astonishing character of Romaine, a noir heroine for all our times. The all-star cast includes Toby Jones (Detectorists, Marvellous, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), Andrea Riseborough (Bloodline, Birdman, Oblivion), Kim Cattrall (Sensitive Skin, Sex and the City), David Haig (The Thick Of It, Mo, My Boy Jack), Billy Howle (The Sense of an Ending, The Seagull, Cider with Rosie), and Monica Dolan (Appropriate Adult, Eye In the Sky, The Casual Vacancy). Written and adapted by Sarah Phelps (Ordeal by Innocence, A Very British Scandal), directed by the acclaimed film and television director Julian Jarrold (The Crown, Kinky Boots, Becoming Jane, The Girl, Appropriate Adult) and produced by Colin Wratten (The Musketeers, One Of Us).

This Hour Has 22 Minutes

THIS HOUR HAS 22 MINUTES, the longest-running TV comedy series in Canadian history and now in its 31st record-breaking season, continues to push the boundaries of provocative satire, targeting politics, culture and world events with biting parodies and an unrelenting skewering of the weekly news

Trickster

Victoria

Queen Victoria: a 19th century heroine for our times. Season Two of VICTORIA (8x60) sees the impulsive young queen face the very modern challenge of balancing a growing family with her husband and her work all while being the ruler of the most powerful nation on earth.

War of the Worlds

WAR OF THE WORLDS (8x60; Fall 2022) Season 3 picks up the story at the end of Season 2. Gabriel Byrne (In Treatment) reprises his role as Bill Ward, along with brand-new talent, including BAFTA Award-winner Molly Windsor (Three Girls), Ernest Kingsley Junior, Madeleine Worrall and Oliver Hembrough. Directed by Indra Siera, who is leading the series, and Jonas Alexander Arnby, the third season of this dynamic adaptation of H.G. Wells classic novel sees the war between the survivors and the aliens reach a new turning point as a strange phenomenon grips countless people across the globe.

Wild Cards

WILD CARDS is a crime-solving procedural with a comedic twist that follows the unlikely duo of a by-the-book, sardonic cop Cole Ellis (Giacomo Gianniotti), and a spirited, clever con woman Max Mitchell (Vanessa Morgan). They are partnered together, and each uses their unique skills to solve crimes.

Winnipeg Comedy Festival

Each Winnipeg Comedy Festival gala features some of the most dynamic performers on todays comedy circuit, delivering unique stand-up material designed around a common theme

Workin’ Moms

WORKIN MOMS is a daring CBC original comedy that tests the modern ideal that women really can have it all. The series deals with four women trying to balance their work lives, while navigating kids, bosses, love and life.