A broadcaster of distinction, CBC Gem has aired more than 20 shows between 1994 and 2024. Some of the best tv shows from CBC Gem include Indspire Awards and My 90 Year Old Roommate, airing in 1994 and 2016 respectively. Stay up-to-date with over 20 of CBC Gem’s elite series, with our list refreshed for January 2026.

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!

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.

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" 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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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).

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.