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A dozen of Canada’s hottest new comics gathered for one hilarious night of standup as part of the Just For Laughs VANCOUVER Festival. These rising stars each headline their own 10-minute episode exclusively for CBC Gem.
This comedic docuseries about two larger-than-life Albertan brothers who turned their “Young Farts RV Parts” business into a viral sensation.
Marina Bastarache and a guest chef challenge the kitchen brigades, made up of would-be high school chefs, to a culinary mission that involves cooking a meal for a social cause. The brigade chosen to take up the challenge is helped every step of the way by the guest chef. Every effort will be made to ensure the meal, inspired by charity and generosity, is a huge hit.
A show that’s a bit techie, a bit geeky, but always funny! Every week, Valérie Roberts and her sidekick Julien Corriveau welcome a celebrity and look through their cellphone. Their favourite apps, the number of selfies they take, what song they listen to on repeat, the person they text most often … everything goes!
Teen Jenny Garcia is forever changed after she's diagnosed with cancer. Despite this, she dares to dream big and live large thanks to the love and support of her friends and family.
Encounter: UFO tells the stories of the most incredible UFO sightings and abductions of the past and the modern era. This eight-part series reaches out to over 24 eyewitnesses from across the globe who swear they’ve seen unidentified flying objects, high-speed saucers and/or mysterious lights in the night sky. Each episode follows three shocking eyewitness accounts of supernatural encounters and is supported by compelling evidence: mobile phone footage and photographs. The documentary series distills the biggest mystery of the modern era into riveting, experiential storytelling.
A groundbreaking Canadian anthology series blending documentary and dramatization, Perspective explored social issues, Canadian identity, and everyday life through a mix of real-life stories and fictional dramatizations. Hosted by Fred Davis and produced by the National Film Board of Canada, the series ran for three seasons on CBC Television between 1955 and 1958.
A wheelchair user since birth, Ian refuses to be anyone’s inspiration. Whether it’s dealing with a rude customer at work, or coming face-to-face with barriers in his daily life, Ian is unafraid to tell it like it is... sometimes to a fault. You’re My Hero is a comedic gem with in-your-face plot lines, and jokes that actually make you think.
"Uncle Bobby" aired from 1964 to 1979 on CFTO-TV in Toronto, starting locally before briefly joining the CTV Network. Starring Bobby Ash, a former UK comedian and clown, the show featured puppets and guests like Bimbo: The Birthday Clown and various performers. Produced at CFTO's Channel Nine Court studios, it became known for Uncle Bobby's catchphrase, "MMMM...BOBBY'S HERE!!!" Engaging kids as "bobbysoxers," it transitioned to "Kid's Corner" in 1979, continuing as a syndicated Saturday morning program.
They passed intelligence, intercepted communications, stole blueprints and mapped targets. But ultimately they drove the deep-seated paranoia and distrust that would forever change the course of history.
Six-part series tracing the origins of the city, its transformations and prospects, based on Lewis Mumford's book The City in History. Aired by CBC in their Explorations strand.
Ten public figures must survive alone in the wilderness without their phones, then unite and work together to make it back to civilization.
Les and Bernard are brothers who haven't seen each other in years. Les has just gotten out of rehab and is staying in Bernard's apartment while he sorts his life out.
Two celebrity chefs are pitted against one another with a challenge to create extraordinary meals using only the ingredients taken from the ordinary fridges of Canadian families. The improvised dinners must win over two families who act as judges to determine which chef wins each epic battle.
Internet Slutts is a bizarre, off-beat comedy series about a couple of twisted puppets whose lives revolve around the Internet. Set in a skanky basement apartment, Internet Slutts stars MURK, a drug-addled bicycle courier, and his best friend WALLY, a pompous, opinionated fellah who bears a striking resemblance to a two foot tall penis. Savvy net browsers, Wally and Murk head to the web whenever they need to answer a pressing question such as "Is peeing on people really a highly erotic sex act or just bad manners?" They surf when they're researching a new hobby, looking for ways to scam some quick cash, or just plain bored and in the mood to waste valuable time building a virtual cow. They also leave the apartment occasionally - to get a brand new scrotal Celtic tattoo, rent their favourite adult videos, or take a survey of movie theatre urinal techniques.
Hotbox was a Canadian absurdist sketch comedy television show on The Comedy Network. It starred Pat Thornton, and was a spinoff of the online sitcom The Owl and the Man. Some notable guest appearances on the show included comics Jon Dore, Colin Mochrie and Seán Cullen. The title "Hot Box" relates to the show's frame story, which starts in each episode's opening sequence, which depicts a box which falls from space, and is discovered by scientists. Throughout the episode, the scientists then perform disastrous experiments involving the box, which contains screens displaying the show's sketches.
Following a construction journey like no other, Rock Solid Builds takes viewers to Newfoundland where third-generation builder Randy Spracklin and his team battle the island’s rugged terrain and notoriously harsh weather to pull off historic renos and jaw-dropping builds.
In 1930s Saskatchewan Tommy Douglas, a small town pastor, sees the poverty and injustice around him which seem beyond his power to address from the pulpit. Douglas enters politics with the socialist Canadian Commonwealth Federation where his idealism runs into powerful opposition from the wealthy and the powerful. Despite the long odds, Douglas' new calling would soon make him a leader who transformed Canada.
The adventures of the green-haired extraterrestrial Bibi ZZ99944X and his friend Geneviève.
Josélito Michaud gives voice to people who recount aspects of their lives—in most cases ordinary people with extraordinary stories to tell. Delving into their personal worlds, with each episode focusing on a particular theme, he draws out uncommon realities, exploring a diversity of topics—and even some taboo subjects—to get to the heart of what it means to be human.
A variety show with a mission: to help people cope with life in a world that sometimes feels like it’s falling apart, filled with hilarious sketches, inspiring interviews, immersive documentaries, surreal animations, and... puppets! At the centre of it all is our host Lido Pimienta, the award-winning Colombian-Canadian musician, artist and mother whose hilarious, curious, and tender personality drives the action.
Her candy store's finances on the rocks, our hero Sweet Fever tries to save her livelihood by fighting to the top of the Pillow Fighting Federation for a big cash prize. With help from her best friend Sam and "not-boyfriend" Chet, Fever struggles to overcome ferocious fighters, a cantankerous commissioner and an arch-enemy she doesn't even realize she has...
On a cold December day in 2017, the bodies of Multi-Billionaire power couple, Barry and Honey Sherman, are found cruelly and bizarrely posed in the basement of their Toronto mansion. The case immediately becomes headline news attracting global interest. More than five years later, no suspects have been named, no arrests have been made, and the double-murder case remains unsolved. Now, in a four-part series, the nation's leading Investigative Journalist and pre-eminent expert on the case, Kevin Donovan, is on a quest to uncover the truth. Told from his perspective, Billionaire Murders reveals an intimate look at who the Shermans were and what may have happened to them. Featuring exclusive access to prominent Canadians who knew Barry and Honey, as well as Donovan’s fellow journalists and several people who are integral to the investigation, this series delves deep into the mystery of their murders including many twists, turns and outrageous conspiracy theories about “who dunnit.”
Ten million years ago, in tropical Africa, as the forest disappeared, a few large primates stood up and began walking on two legs. Faced with the dangers of the savannah, like all living beings, they defended themselves and adapted. Their brains grew, their consciousness developed. They invented, they organized themselves, they roamed the earth and the oceans. They conquered the world.
Mariloup Wolfe meets up with families who moved to remote areas to improve their quality of life. She reveals the questions, doubts and decisions behind these moves, as she profiles one family per episode.
A Black South African lives in Toronto with his Canadian wife in 1989. His fears of being stalked by South African secret police, force him to reflect back on his life growing up under apartheid.
A blue collar "working class" satirical comedy about the film & TV industry - told from the drivers' perspective.
This true crime series shows how innocent people have been convicted with dubious forensic techniques and tools such as touch DNA and cadaver dogs
Discover how Toronto real estate broker Heather Rovet's perfect romance with "Jace" shattered upon discovering he was Jason Porter, a convicted felon with a history of romantic fraud. Connecting with other victims, Heather transforms from heartbroken lover to determined investigator, risking everything to expose his pattern of manipulation and seek justice.
A two-part history of the newsreel co-produced by the BBC and the CBC.
The story of the famous 1989 trial of Chantale Daigle vs Jean-Guy Tremblay. Pregnant at the time of their breakup, Chantale decides to have an abortion. Jean-Guy wants to stop her. This battle goes all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada.
Take everything you know about a talk show and throw it out the window. Forget decorum, affability and anything well-mannered, as funnyman Didier Lambert takes control and all hell breaks loose. This is where artists and celebrities sit down in the ugliest studio available in town and get toasted with no holds barred, promising the most embarrassing interview of their career.
This Is Emily Yeung is a 2006 Canadian children's television series created by J.J. Johnson and Blair Powers. It is produced by Toronto's marblemedia and Sinking Ship Productions in association with Treehouse TV, and is the follow-up to their previous television series This Is Daniel Cook. Now Emily Yeung is currently going to high school. This series follows six-year-old Emily Yeung as she takes on new experiences and challenges with her own unique perspective and with a variety of guests from a broad range of fields from snake handlers to basketball players to bakers. This Is Emily Yeung airs on Treehouse TV in Canada and the Disney Channel in the United States. The series of sixty-five six minute episodes and two thirty minute specials has been sold by Distribution360 to eighty-eight countries and dubbed into fourteen languages including French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Japanese. The first DVD, This Is Emily Yeung. Arts & Crafts was released on May 13, 2008. A second DVD, This Is Emily Yeung. Celebrating the holidays was released on October 21, 2008.
The Altar Boy Gang was a satirical half hour comedy developed for the Canadian television network CBC Television in 2007. Although two episodes were shot and four more were commissioned to be written, the show was not picked up as a regular series. The two pilot episodes of this series written by Norm Hiscock aired on CBC in 2007. The show drew much angry response from Catholic groups who felt its portrayal of altar boys as drug dealing hooligans was offensive. Also the depiction of a Catholic priest who inadvertently ingests LSD was seen as disrespectful. Others enjoyed the shows and saw them merely as character studies of less-than-perfect people finding their way in the world. Kelly Makin, the director of the two pilot episodes, and David Makin, the director of photography, worked with Norm on the television show The Kids in the Hall. Andy Jones, who played the role of Father Sand, also wrote with Norm on the last season of The Kids in the Hall. Dan Redican was the story editor. The song "Soldiers of Christ" by the Canadian band Blood Meridian was the title music for the show.
Karol: The Pope, The Man is a 2006 TV miniseries chronicling Pope John Paul II's life as pope in flashbacks from October 22, 1978's papal inauguration to his death in 2005 and was directed by Giacomo Battiato. It is the sequel to the 2005 TV miniseries Karol: A Man Who Became Pope, which portrayed John Paul's life before the papacy and ended on October 16, 1978, the day of his papal election.
Over six episodes, Maisonneuve looks at the repercussions flowing from the arrest of 11 students at Montreal’s Collège de Maisonneuve as they prepared to join the ranks of the Islamic State in Syria. From the initial shock to a gradual opening for dialogue, the series follows the paths of six exceptional young people who share their points of view. Through their eyes, Maisonneuve highlights both the importance and the fragility of living together in harmony in Quebec.
Les Belles Histoires des pays d'en haut is a Canadian television drama series, which aired on Radio-Canada from 1956 to 1970. One of the longest-running programs in the history of Canadian television, the series produced 81 episodes during its 14-year run and was one of the first influential téléromans. Written by Claude-Henri Grignon as an adaptation of his 1933 novel Un Homme et son péché and initially set in the 1880s, the series starred Jean-Pierre Masson as Séraphin Poudrier, the wealthy but miserly mayor of the village of Sainte-Adèle, Quebec, and Andrée Champagne as Donalda Laloge-Poudrier, the young daughter of a village resident who is given in marriage to Séraphin as payment for a family debt even though she remains in love with her suitor Alexis Labranche.
In this show hosted by Étienne Boulay, single parents determined to find love go on a dream cruise with their children. During the trip, every participant has to live experiences with various candidates. At the end of the adventure, they have to choose only one, and they’ll get to confirm their love in a villa in Quebec.
Nine teens on the edge of academic failure embark on an incredible three-month life makeover with the help of a “swat team” of health and wellness experts.
GETTING UNDER YOUR SKIN tells the story of an unlikely friendship between Gaspard, a queer 16-year-old in search of empowerment, and Dave, a 25-year-old police officer who infiltrates Gaspard’s high school to flush out drug dealers with possible organized crime connections.
In this weekly roundtable talk series, former contestants of Rupauls Drag Race; Peppermint, Jiggly Caliente, Sonique, and Carmen Carrera sit around and discuss various topics including politics and dating as they relate to their trans identities.
Rohan Marley, son of legendary musician Bob Marley, reconnects with his roots as he goes on a journey to explore the food and music of his native Jamaica.