The Best TV Shows on CBC Gem

Every CBC Gem Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Our curated list, current as of January 2026, showcases over 20 of CBC Gem’s highest-rated series. For top-tier entertainment, CBC Gem delivered Indspire Awards and My 90 Year Old Roommate in 1994 and 2016. CBC Gem has over 20 shows broadcast from as early as 1994 and as recent as 2024.

  • Race Against The Tide
    Race Against The Tide (2021)9.5

    Sand sculptor teams Race Against the Tide to complete their works of art. As the Bay of Fundy tide comes in, judges decide the winning team moments before everything is washed away!

  • Overlord and the Underwoods
    Overlord and the Underwoods (2021)9.0

    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.

  • Gangnam Project
    Gangnam Project (2024)9.0

    A spirited biracial Canadian/Korean teen, obsessed with K-pop, accepts a job as an English tutor at an elite Korean entertainment company, but gets more than she bargained for.

  • How to Buy a Baby
    How to Buy a Baby (2017)8.5

    "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.

  • Best In Miniature
    Best In Miniature (2022)7.9

    Best in Miniature welcomes 11 highly skilled artists from across the world to compete in the ultimate challenge: building their dream home in miniature form. The competitors will create their houses, in painstaking detail, room by room by shrinking life-size objects to 1:12 scale. While the objects may be small in stature, the stakes could not be higher.

  • Utopia Falls
    Utopia Falls (2020)7.1

    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.

  • Fakes
    Fakes (2022)7.0

    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.

  • The 410
    The 410 (2019)6.7

    Suri, a South Asian female and aspiring influencer, turns to a life of crime to bail her truck driver father out of prison.

  • Bardot
    Bardot (2023)6.7

    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.

  • Northern Rescue
    Northern Rescue (2019)6.2

    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
    Plan B (2023)5.8

    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.

  • The Great Canadian Baking Show
    The Great Canadian Baking Show (2017)4.7

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

  • Indspire Awards
    Indspire Awards (1994)N/A

    An annual Canadian awards ceremony, known as National Aboriginal Achievement Awards until 2012, intended to celebrate and encourage excellence in the Aboriginal community in Canada, honouring dedicated and community-focused First Nations, Inuit and Métis, presented by Indspire (formerly National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation).

  • My 90 Year Old Roommate
    My 90 Year Old Roommate (2016)N/A

    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
    Save Me (2017)N/A

    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.

  • The Writers' Block
    The Writers' Block (2018)N/A

    A behind the scenes look as a three-person writing team tries to put together a TV show.

  • The Communist's Daughter
    The Communist's Daughter (2021)N/A

    In the thick of the Reagan '80s, the daughter of two happily married Communists struggles between fitting in at a new high school and upholding her family's outdated beliefs.

  • Hello (Again)
    Hello (Again) (2022)N/A

    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.

  • I Hate People, People Hate Me
    I Hate People, People Hate Me (2023)N/A

    Perpetually disturbed by the world around them, two twenty-somethings navigate their lives as underdogs in Toronto’s queer community. As a chubby gay man and misanthropic trans girl, they don’t exactly adhere to the “ideal gay image,” While the pair have their share of grievances with fellow queers AND society at large this jaded and judgmental duo aren’t completely innocent either.

  • How to Fail as a Popstar
    How to Fail as a Popstar (2023)N/A

    The story of Vivek, a queer brown boy from Edmonton as he tries (and fails) to achieve pop stardom, told from the perspective of the now 40-something trans femme artist that boy became.