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The Adventures of Chich was a Canadian children's television series which aired on CBC Television from 1958 to 1959.

CTV News at 5 is a popular hour-long television newsmagazine airing weekdays at 5:00 p.m. on the CTV Atlantic system in the Canadian Maritimes region.

Soccer Dreams, a.k.a. Football Dreams, is a Canadian reality television programme that gives footballers ages 14-19 in North America the opportunity to win a contract with the Everton Football Club. Based on the UK show Football Icon, Soccer Dreams tryouts began on June 29th 2007 in Toronto. Tryouts were also held in Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary and Winnipeg. At each trial, a team of coaching staff, including Everton Football Club Academy Manager Ray Hall, whittled the trialists down to 36 competitors. On August 20th, the final 36 reported back to Ottawa, where they played for the contract at the Oz Dome. The show was produced by, amongst others, action film producer Jalal Merhi. Soccer Dreams debuted on June 7th, 2008, on Fox Soccer Channel.

La Fureur is a French music game show, first aired by France 2 in Summer 1996. Created by French television personality Arthur, the show features two teams of celebrity contestants, segregated by gender, playing various music-related games and stunts. One notable element of La Fureur is its karaoke feature, where viewers at home are invited to sing along with the contestants, and even musical guests, by singing to the lyrics displayed on the screen. After its short run on France 2, TF1 picked up the series later in 1996, and carried it through December 31, 2000. Arthur was the host for both the France 2 and TF1 series. Many episodes are generally 120 to 145 minutes in length. The show was revived by music channel W9 in 2007, as La Fureur, le retour. Alexandre Devoise was the host of this new version. Unlike the original run, le retour does not include a karaoke feature—only questions pertaining to music.

Bold Concert Series is a Canadian English language television series. Bold Concert Series debuted on March 29, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. EST on the Canadian specialty channel, bold.

Météo+ is a Canadian television sitcom which began airing on TFO, the French language public broadcaster in Ontario, on February 14, 2008.

Underdogs is a 2006 Canadian television series spin-off from Marketplace. Host Wendy Mesley brings together three people, the underdogs, who have a consumer complaint to help them win their way against three companies of Canada.

The Seven Wonders of Canada was a 2007 competition sponsored by CBC Television's The National and CBC Radio One's Sounds Like Canada. They sought to determine Canada's "seven wonders" by receiving nominations from viewers, and then from on-line voting of the short list. After the vote, a panel of judges, Ra McGuire, Roy MacGregor and Roberta L. Jamieson, picked the winners based on geographic and poetic criteria. Their seven picks were revealed on The National on June 7, 2007.

Le TVA 18 heures is the 6PM ET supper-hour newscast on TVA, a French language television network in the Canadian province of Quebec which is also available across Canada on cable. The program consists of a network-wide portion anchored by Pierre Bruneau from Montreal, followed by regional segments hosted by the local news anchors at each individual station. The sole exception is CFCM in Quebec City, which produces its own edition of the program anchored by Pierre Jobin.

First Local is a 15 or 30 minute television community news and information program produced by Rogers TV. The program design is based upon that of a television newscast. In some communities the program is daily, others it is a weekly or bi-weekly program. Generally each program incorporates local news, sports and weather information. As with most shows on Rogers TV it is produced using the resources of volunteers from the community.

Grand-Papa is a French-Canadian soap opera TV series written by Janette Bertrand which originally aired between 1976 and 1979. The series totaled 115 episodes.

Le TVA Week-end is a French language Canadian newscast which airs on the TVA television network on the weekends. The programme presents national and international news of the weekend.

A Way Out was a Canadian do-it-yourself television show on CBC Television which originally began as a gardening show, but, evolved to include crafts, outdoor activities and do-it-yourself home repairs and improvements. The show was hosted by George Finstad then Mary Chapman and Laurie Jennings and produced by Doug Lower, Neil Andrews and Robert Hutt.

Global Currents is a Canadian news television series, which aired weekly on Global Television Network. Hosted by Kevin Newman, the series airs one documentary film each week. The series originally launched in 2005, replacing the newsmagazine series Global Sunday. Initially, there was no umbrella title for the series, with each week's documentary promoted under its own individual title. The title Global Currents began to be used in 2007. The series was shown Saturday evenings at 7 p.m., save for the autumn of 2007 when it was shown at 10 p.m.

Francoeur was a Canadian television series, first aired by TFO in 2003. It was the first Franco-Ontarian téléroman. The series has produced 44 episodes to date. The series revolves around the Francoeurs, a Franco-Ontarian family in Eastern Ontario running a family farm. Written by Guy Boutin and directed by Derek Diorio, it was created and produced by Robert Charbonneau. The series has also aired on Télévision de Radio-Canada across the country.

Behind the Movies is a Canadian television series, airing weekly on Citytv. The series goes behind the scenes of the movie industry, interviewing actors, directors and crew involved in the making of classic films.

Pencil Box was a children's television programme broadcast by CBC Television from 1976 to 1979. The programme comprised stories written by Ottawa students, mostly aged 8 to 12, and incorporated various story-telling devices, such as mime, puppets, masks, and animation. Colour-separation overlay was used to place live actors in front of cutout sets. Recurring characters in the show were ⁕Bolo Bat ⁕Stubby Pencil ⁕Miffy Skunk ⁕Clara Cactus The show won an ACTRA Award for Best Children's Television Show.

Midday was a television newsmagazine series on CBC Television, which ran from January 1985 to 2000, replacing local noon-hour newscasts on CBC stations. The show, which aired from noon to 1 p.m. on weekday afternoons, presented a mix of news, lifestyle and entertainment features. The show would open with a 10-minute CBC News summary, usually read by Sheldon Turcotte in the news studio, and then move to another studio for the main segment of the program. The news summary would later become a simulcast of the CBC Newsworld hourly news update that was live for each time zone. Its original hosts were Bill Cameron, Keith Morrison and Valerie Pringle. The original producer was Michael Harris and the series was directed for its first four seasons by Sidney M. Cohen, who later became executive producer of Canada AM for CTV. Morrison, who initially rotated with Cameron, left after a year and Cameron left several years later, and was replaced by Peter Downie; Downie left in 1989 and was replaced by Ralph Benmergui. Pringle left the show to become host of Canada AM, and was replaced by one of show's regular contributors, Tina Srebotnjak. Benmergui later left to become host of Friday Night! with Ralph Benmergui, and was replaced by Kevin Newman. Newman subsequently left to join ABC News in the United States, and was replaced by Brent Bambury.

La famille Plouffe was a Canadian television drama, more specifically a téléroman, about a Quebec family that first aired in the French-language on Société Radio-Canada in 1953. The show was created to fill a void in francophone television in Canada. Whereas the English Canadian television branch of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation could broadcast English-language shows from American stations, the Francophone component of the CBC, Radio-Canada had to develop its own programs for French-Canadian viewers from the earliest days of television in Canada. This show was one of the few that helped to launch the téléroman genre of programming in French Canada, around the same time the first telenovelas aired in Latin America. The series was also broadcast live in English as The Plouffe Family, on CBC Television the following year and ran on both networks until 1959. The series was revived in the 1980s as a miniseries. The series was based on the novel Les Plouffe, by Roger Lemelin. It chronicled the daily life of a working-class family in the years following World War II. The family included patriarch Théophile, a former provincial cycling champion who had settled into life as a plumber, his wife Joséphine, a naive but kind-hearted mother who doted on her adult children Napoléon, Ovide, Cécile and Guillaume.

SpaceNews was a daily news segment on Space, a Canadian television station. Videographer Natasha Eloi looks at "what's new" in space and the sciences. SpaceNews Monthly is a best-of show based on these interstitials. Both programs finished their runs at the end of September and October 2005, respectively.

Question Period is a Canadian television newsmagazine which airs weekly, currently excluding the summer months, on CTV at 11:00 AM ET in Ontario and east, and 4:00 PM local on stations in Western Canada. It also airs on the CTV News Channel at 5:00 PM EST. The program, which takes its name from the parliamentary process of Question Period, is an interview and panel discussion series on Canadian politics, similar to an American Sunday morning talk show. Debuting in 1967, it is CTV's third oldest series that is still in production behind W5 and CTV National News. However, the series was suspended from 1996 to 2001 in favour of the similar Sunday Edition with Mike Duffy, a BBS production which aired on most CTV stations and which was ultimately taken over by the network, but was then itself cancelled in 1999. Question Period would be revived in fall 2001, the announcement of which came shortly after rival network Global announced a similar public affairs program, Global Sunday, which also debuted in fall 2001 and ran for four seasons. Craig Oliver, CTV's chief political correspondent and previously the network's Ottawa bureau chief, was co-host of Question Period throughout its current run until 2012, and previously served as a host during the final years of the program's initial run. In July 2011, CTV announced that former Global National anchor Kevin Newman had been hired to co-host the program with Craig Oliver, with his position starting on August 22, 2011. Newman became the program's sole host in September 2012; Oliver remains with the network and now serves as a regular roundtable panelist on QP.

House of Pride was a Canadian television soap opera, which aired on CBC Television from 1974 to 1976. The series opened with the death of family patriarch Dan Pride, and focused on the families of his five adult children. Each of the families lived in a different Canadian city; the series had production units in Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal and Halifax. The cast included Charmion King, Lynne Griffin, Budd Knapp, Linda Sorenson, Colin Fox and Sébastien Dhavernas.

Material World was a Canadian television sitcom, which aired on CBC Television from 1990 to 1993. In its first season, the show was a conventional sitcom, shot on videotape with a laugh track, but in subsequent seasons the show adopted a comedy-drama format. The show starred Laura Bruneau as Kitty, a Toronto fashion designer. The cast also included Linda Sorenson as Kitty's mother, Jayne Eastwood as her office assistant Bernice, Chris Potter as her boyfriend Tim, and Angela Dohrmann as her roommate Angela. The show's original theme song was sung by Taborah Johnson. When it adopted the comedy-drama format, it used Bob Wiseman's "What the Astronaut Noticed and Then Suggested" as its theme music.

North America: Growth of a Continent was an educational television show which was produced and broadcast by TVOntario in 1980-81. The series was narrated by Gordon Pinsent.

More to Life was a daily afternoon television show produced and broadcast by TVOntario. The show first premiered in 1997. The first host was Maureen Taylor. In the final years, it was hosted by Mary Ito, while Karen Horsman substituted on some occasions. The final episode of More to Life aired on Friday, June 30, 2006. On June 29, 2006, the Ontario government announced that TVOntario would be undergoing a major overhaul. Amongst the shows to be cancelled were Studio 2, VOX, and More To Life.

Room Service is the first of four home renovation television series hosted by Canadian designer Sarah Richardson. In each episode, Richardson remakes one room of a person's house. It aired on HGTV in both the United States and in Canada.

>play was a Canadian newsmagazine series, focusing on pop culture and entertainment, which aired on CBC Newsworld between 2002 and 2005. The > symbol is part of the show's title. The show was hosted by Jian Ghomeshi, a former member of pop group Moxy Früvous. The show initially aired weekly. Then themed episodes aired once every several weeks. However, the show was cancelled due to poor ratings.

Scully: The World Show is a Canadian talk show hosted by Robert Scully, who has interviewed some of the world's most prominent and famous personalities. Each week, Scully—once dubbed "the best interviewer on television" by the Montreal daily La Presse—discusses topical issues with Nobel laureates, heads of state, royalty, authors, financiers, athletes, designers, diplomats and philanthropists. The show, which debuted on November 5, 1988, has been taped worldwide. It is produced in Montreal, Quebec, Canada by Télémission Information Inc. and airs in syndication. The talk show was first syndicated for the 1998-'99 season and is distributed by American Public Television.

Adrienne At Large was a Canadian half-hour public affairs television show. The show was broadcast on CTV at 10 p.m. on Thursdays from September 26, 1974 until January 2, 1975. Adrienne Clarkson and Glenn Sarty hosted the show.

Kids Can Rock and Roll is a children's television program that aired from 1993-1996 on Canada's Global Television Network. It was produced by Children's Hour Productions in association with Global. Following its run on Global, the series ran another two years on the YTV children's cable channel. The show featured the rock band Kideo, which consisted of Buddy Goodfellow on bass, Ace Manners on guitar, and P.J. Styles on drums, with all three members contributing vocals. Each band member had a signature color - Buddy was green, Ace was blue, and P.J. was red. These colors were reflected in their clothing, hair, masks, and face make-up. Each episode featured four original rock songs for kids, including a live concert video. The band members also performed various activities with the intent of teaching the young viewers certain moral lessons. Additional segments in the show included "Air-Robic Rock", Kideo Eye-View Movies, and Fan Mail. What set Kideo apart from many other children's groups was that they wrote all their own songs, and played their own instruments. They released three albums entitled "Kids Can Rock And Roll", "In A World Of Black And White", and "The Name Of The Game". They also released two videos - "KIDEO In Concert" and a KIDEO puppet video entitled "The Puppetual World Of Rock And Roll". Both videos featured songs and scenes from the TV series, but included never-before-seen hosting segments by KIDEO.

Let's Go was a daily CBC Television entertainment series aired during the 1967-1968 season, featuring musical guests. It was the successor to Music Hop, and the show's title was taken from the Vancouver segment of Music Hop. Each day's episode featured local talent from a different city, moving across the country from east to west: Halifax, Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg and Vancouver. Anne Murray appeared on the Halifax show, before she achieved huge popularity with "Snowbird". The Winnipeg show was hosted by Chad Allan, the former frontman for The Guess Who. The Guess Who, fronted by Burton Cummings, played as the house band in Winnipeg.

The Superstar Chef Challenge is a reality/competition special produced for the Food Network Canada. Filmed at the state of the art Compass Group Canada Culinary Arts Demonstration Theatre and Kitchen Laboratory in Humber College's North Campus, it serves as a pilot for a potential series. Hosted by Kevin Brauch, the would-be-chefs were selected from a cross-country lot that send in a five-minute tape of themselves cooking their signature dish. The winner for the 1st season was Dana McIntyre and as part of the prize she got a co-starring role in the Food Network Canada show Just One Bite. The show's supervising producer for the first season was Jenna Keane. The special was filmed during Humber College's March 2005 Reading Week; it is known that Humber will host the series if it is a success. The second season is currently being shot in Toronto, Ontario.

Gadgets and Gizmos was a Canadian television program about technology gadgets and reviews shown on G4techTV Canada. The show, along with Call for Help, is a Canadian recreation of a TechTV original series known as Fresh Gear. It was hosted by Call for Help co-host Amber MacArthur, along with Marc Saltzman, and field correspondent Pay Chen. Andy Walker also hosted several early episodes. On August 31, 2005, Andy Walker announced on his official blog that Gadgets and Gizmos had been cancelled, however according to Marc Saltzman, the show had only ended production for the year and could possibly be renewed for another season. As of July 2008, the show has not returned with new episodes. Gadgets and Gizmos will most likely never return to air as its sister show Call for Help had also been cancelled some time after Gadgets and Gizmos. The show continues to air on G4techTV Canada in early mornings with outdated episodes, followed by Call for Help.

Nite Lite Live is a Christian nightly television open-line call-in show in Canada hosted by Paul Willoughby. It is a programme on the Crossroads Television System. The show is 2½ hours long, commercial-free, from 2 A.M. to 4:30 A.M. EST. Nite Lite Live used to air seven days a week, 365 days a year. But, due to the 2009 economic recession the show was cut back to five days a week with re-runs being shown on the weekends. There are also frequent guest hosts. People can call in and can talk to the host about any questions and/or concerns they may have in their lives; they can also ask questions regarding Christianity or the Bible; and they can also ask for prayer. There also tends to be a certain theme or question of the night which callers can comment on. Hosts include, Pastor Paul Willoughby, Pastor Dominic Vitale, Pastor Jamal and Pam, and many others. The call screener is Neal, who will notify you upon calling that there is a '10 second delay', so in the even you swear, your cursing will be censored this is in response to a number of atheists prank calling the station and uploading to YouTube.

20/20 is a Canadian half-hour documentary series which aired on CBC Television between April 22, 1962 and September 24, 1967. 20/20 was broadcast in the daytime in various timeslots. The series features episodes about life in Canada. The series was narrated by Harry Mannis and produced by Thom Benson and Richard Knowles.

As the Cookie Crumbles is a web-based soap opera produced by Kraft Canada. Eight weekly episodes were broadcast from September 18, 2008 through November 6, 2008. A promotional vehicle for Kraft’s brand Peek Freans Lifestyle Selections, a line of cookies with alleged health benefits, the branded content series featured love, hate, mystery and heartbreak storylines centered around the Casa di Tea, an oceanside teahouse in fictional Glamora County. According to Peek Freans, the company looked at "consumers' love for soap operas" and gave As the Cookie Crumbles "all the stereotypical elements you'd expect to find in a soap opera." The series was distributed on a variety of platforms including DailyMotion, Revver, Blip, Funny or Die, and iTunes.

Junior Television Club was a Canadian children's television news magazine series. It was broadcast on CBC Television from Vancouver, British Columbia between May 1, 1957 and June 26, 1957. On June 12, 1957, the show featured ten-year-old Kim Campbell, who later became Canada's first female Prime Minister. The show aired Wednesdays at 5 PM.

Garage Matches is a Canadian serial drama television series that follows the competitors as they compete head-to-head against each other for the title of Garage Matches Champion. Each episode typically features a variety of exciting, daring, shocking, disgusting, and most importantly, entertaining competitions. The show is produced by GR Productions and airs on the CBC Network in Canada. In August 2007 it was announced that Garage Matches will continue for a second season. The second season will consist of 10 episodes, running weekly uninterrupted by repeats.

The Conventioneers was a television program on Bite TV. The series was hosted by Jason Agnew, and Matt Chin. The series originally began as a simple interview style program set in various conventions across Toronto and Mississauga. Since the shows inception in 2006, The Conventioneers has undergone periods of formatting changes. They no longer were exclusive to conventions as they showcased in the "Calgary Adventure" episodes. Since that episode the Conventioneers were known to visit events such as Wakestock, and The Festival of Beer. The Conventioneers is one of the staples of the Bite TV rotation, as it receives constant repeat airings.

Kitchen Equipped is a show which can be seen on Food Network Canada and HGTV. The show, which shot 3 seasons was co-hosted by Canadian pastry and celeb chef Anna Olson, carpenter Jay Purvis, and interior designer Stacy McLennan. Both Olson and Purvis explore building and renovating a kitchen. Plus they explore gadgets, kitchen accessories, products, appliances, and a lot more. Stacey McLennan was the first winner of Designer Superstar Challenge. Stacy McLennan was replaced after the 1st season with Chef Anna Olson. Over the course of the first season, Purvis and McLennan showed the viewers how to design a kitchen. Each episode would show a little more of the kitchen being done. The 2nd and 3rd seasons spent less time on the process and more on the finishes of the kitchen without showing the actual construction, just the various steps.

A group of young teenagers discover that they each possess unique powers & transformations. However, society doesn't play kindly to them. Together, they have to learn to adapt and live in a world that resents these beings.

Destination Fear was a Canadian paranormal television series that premiered on May 5, 2012, in Canada and September 3, 2012, in the United States. The program features ghost hunters and practical jokers who visit paranormal hotspots reported to be haunted. Guests are unaware they were set up by friends or loved ones to experience staged, frightening encounters.

Follow Cheetree, Penguala, Draggle, and their new friends as they explore Hatchtopia solving mysteries, making new friends, and having a hatchtastic time