The Best TV Shows on CBC Gem

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.

"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.

An episodic series created, co-written, and co-produced by Amanda Parris that follows Dr. Toni Shakur, a self-help guru whose singular mission is to cancel the entertainment industry's reliance on token Black characters....before she gets canceled herself.

Host, Gordie Lucius goes on a grand adventure to learn everything he can about nature. Where did life come from? Why are animal’s genitals so weird? Look out Attenborough, there’s a new kid in town.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A series of engaging, character-driven, short documentaries by emerging documentary filmmakers from across Canada.

In this tongue-in-cheek portrayal of his life, Chris Jericho is a former wrestler struggling to make it big as an actor.

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.

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.

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.