The Best TV Shows on CBC Gem

Every CBC Gem Show Ranked From Best To Worst

As of September 2025, our compilation of CBC Gem’s top-rated series boasts over 20 unique shows. Marketplace and Indspire Awards represent the pinnacle of CBC Gem’s programming, launching in 1972 and 1994. Across the timeline from 1972 to 2024, CBC Gem has presented audiences with over 20 captivating shows.

  • 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.

  • 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)7.2

    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)7.2

    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.

  • Something Undone
    Something Undone (2021)7.0

    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.

  • Zarqa
    Zarqa (2022)7.0

    Zarqa's ex-husband is marrying a younger, skinnier, white, yoga instructor, so Zarqa announces that she's coming to the wedding with her own cliché - a white brain surgeon named Brian. Now she just has to find him.

  • 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)5.7

    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)5.2

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

  • Marketplace
    Marketplace (1972)5.1

    Marketplace is a Canadian television series, broadcast on CBC Television. Launched in 1972, the series is a consumer advocacy newsmagazine, which shows investigative reports on issues such as product testing, health and safety, fraudulent business practices and other news issues of interest to product and service consumers.

  • Ghosting
    Ghosting (2024)4.3

    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.

  • Hey Lady!
    Hey Lady! (2020)1.0

    Nothing is safe when fearlessly off-the-charts senior citizen Lady and her chain-smoking best friend embark on a rampage of urban vengeance, upturning everything in their path.

  • 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.

  • Bit Playas
    Bit Playas (2019)N/A

    Bit Playas follows Ahmed and Leon as they spend their days hustling in the casting room, working jobs in the real world, deflecting the occasional “soft racism” and dealing with their own identity crises.

  • Homeschooled
    Homeschooled (2022)N/A

    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.

  • Stay Tooned
    Stay Tooned (2022)N/A

    A six-part series that takes viewers on a deep dive through some animated favourites to explore how these cartoons have shaped society.