The Best TV Shows on CBC Gem

A typical North American family's lives change drastically when a distant relative moves in from another galaxy - Overlord, the 2nd-most wanted villain in the universe.

"How to Buy a Baby" is the story of an infertile couple that struggles to conceive with the help of a doctor. And a nurse. And a financial planner. And unsolicited advice from everyone they know.

In a genre bending take on a coming of age story, a group of teens in a distant future colony uncover an ancient forbidden archive of historical, cultural and musical relics. This discovery forces them to question everything they've been taught, and use the power of music to ignite change in their reality to expose the truth.

Teenage best friends Zoe and Becca set out to build their own fake ID empire, but when business starts booming, their life of crime gets way too real.

When a foley artist goes home to settle her late mother’s estate, she discovers a dark family secret and becomes obsessed with finding the truth.

The life of the French actor Brigitte Bardot and model from 1949, when she first appeared on the cover of a magazine, to the birth of her son in 1960.

After the death of his wife, Sarah, John West, packs up his three children and moves from their hectic urban life to his small northern hometown to take command of the local search-and-rescue service. Once there, the family struggles with their new surroundings, new friends and accepting Sarah's death.

Plan B offers clients the chance to travel back in time to change the past, but each alteration has unintended consequences, revealing the complexity and limitations of personal agency.

While mixing the comedy and documentary formats we follow the search for Harold Heaven, who mysteriously disappeared from his remote cabin in Ontario, Canada, in the winter of 1934. Local police searched the nearby woods and dredged the adjacent lake, but Harold was never found nor heard from again. 85 years later, his great-great-nephew, Mike, attempts to solve this coldest of cold cases, with the help of his extended family and true-crime-obsessed best friend, Jackson.

Canadian version of hit British baking competition. 10 amateur bakers from across Canada compete in a series of themed culinary challenges.

Stepping off script horror actors turned amateur ghostbusters, Luke Hutchie and Matthew Finlan, bring celebrity guests on paranormal adventures to see if haunted places are truly haunted.

In this tongue-in-cheek portrayal of his life, Chris Jericho is a former wrestler struggling to make it big as an actor.

Ethan, a 31-year-old single man, moves in with his 90-year-old grandfather and the pair quickly realize that they have a lot to learn from each other.

Save Me drops us into random lives, mid-sentence. We get to know people through storylines that unravel with humour and pathos and a built-in ticking time bomb - that one of them at some point will be blindsided by a medical emergency. And all of it is rooted in the on-going stories of our regular cast of EMTs who come to the rescue.

Why the hell would you want to play for the Toronto Boxsprings? They’re a bad team in a lousy inter-county league. They’re owned by a crappy discount mattress store. Even their locker room sucks - stuck in the leaky basement of a local dive bar.

Five duck decoy carvers from Alberta pursue their dreams of winning the illustrious (their words) Northern Alberta Carving Cup.

Two homeschooled 16-year-old intellectuals make a documentary showcasing what home education is really like. The documentary and their friendship take a turn when one enrolls in "real" high school.

Sparks fly as a line cook crashes into a medical resident, igniting a whirlwind romance until things sour. A mischievous supernatural girl hurls the chef back in time for a second chance at love.

A series of engaging, character-driven, short documentaries by emerging documentary filmmakers from across Canada.

When a mysterious rival uses a time machine to frame famous Edwardian-era Detective William Murdoch of a murder he didn’t commit, Macy and her friends travel back to 1910 to determine the real perpetrator of the crime. But if you thought solving a regular murder mystery was difficult, imagine doing so undercover, in a time that isn’t your own, and without the aid of modern technology. To make matters worse, if Macy doesn’t succeed in exonerating Detective Murdoch, she faces a terrible fate — being erased from the future!