The Best TV Shows on CBC Gem

Every CBC Gem Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Explore our list of the top rated shows up to date from April 2026 that includes over 20 unique series. CBC Gem has delivered an expansive roster of over 20 shows, dating from 2016 all the way to 2024. Premiering in 2016 and 2016, Pirata and Capitano and My 90 Year Old Roommate are among CBC Gem’s most celebrated 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Crawford
    Crawford (2018)5.5

    A comedy about a dysfunctional family with 3 children. Oldest Wendy is trying to figure out life. Don came home after being kicked out of his band and finds he can talk to raccoons. Youngest Brian always seems to unite the family.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Pirata and Capitano
    Pirata and Capitano (2016)N/A

    A colorful pirate crew aboard the Pink Skull searches for riches across the Great Sea, discovering friendship and excitement as they explore mysterious islands together.

  • 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.

  • Hudson
    Hudson (2019)N/A

    In this Heartland spinoff, Jade Virani is left in charge of Maggie's Diner for an entire week as she tries to prove her worth in order to land the new manager position.

  • Decoys
    Decoys (2020)N/A

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Macy Murdoch
    Macy Murdoch (2023)N/A

    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!