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The Best TV Shows on CBC Gem

Every CBC Gem Show Ranked From Best To Worst

CBC Gem’s extensive portfolio includes more than 20 shows, spanning the years from 2017 to 2023. Icons of CBC Gem, Save Me and The Great Canadian Baking Show made their debut in 2017 and 2017, setting industry standards. Explore our list of the top rated shows up to date from November 2024 that includes over 20 unique series.

  • How to Buy a Baby
    How to Buy a Baby (2017)10.0

    "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.

  • 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.

  • Best In Miniature
    Best In Miniature (2022)7.8

    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)7.3

    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.

  • Bardot
    Bardot (2023)7.1

    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)6.3

    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)6.0

    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.

  • Alter Boys
    Alter Boys (2023)6.0

    After being rescued from a forest fire that tore through an isolated conversion therapy camp, a group of young men reflect back on a summer of adversity - and all the beauty they wielded in protest.

  • The Great Canadian Baking Show
    The Great Canadian Baking Show (2017)5.8

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

  • Canada's Ultimate Challenge
    Canada's Ultimate Challenge (2023)2.0

    Six extraordinary coaches will guide and mentor teams of everyday Canadians at site-specific physical challenges in a unique competition structure. Each episode will take place at an iconic Canadian location where the teams will compete in spectacular Solo, Tandem or Team challenges that test them physically and mentally. In the end, only one team will win CANADA'S ULTIMATE CHALLENGE.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Farming For Love
    Farming For Love (2023)N/A

    Five Canadians searching for their soulmates open up their farms – and their hearts – to a select group of urban singles. As they live and work together, the daters must adjust to a new lifestyle, and immerse themselves in a series of challenges, group activities, and intimate one-on-one dates with the goal of finding their one true love.

  • Telling Our Story
    Telling Our Story (2023)N/A

    Community members tell the histories, experiences, outlooks, and aspirations of 11 different First Nations, illuminating the cultures, the stories, and the resilience of Indigenous peoples whose homelands now host Canada.

  • 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.