CBC last week announced the streaming and broadcast premiere dates for its winter 2025 lineup of new and returning programming on CBC Gem and CBC TV, including more than 30 original series from Canadian creators, producers and storytellers.
New Canadian original series unveiled earlier this year include Saint-Pierre (10 episodes x 60 minutes), a police procedural starring Allan Hawco (Republic of Doyle) and Joséphine Jobert (Death in Paradise) set in the French territory of Saint-Pierre et Miquelon, just off the coast of Newfoundland. Fitz (Hawco) and Arch (Jobert) are two seasoned officers with very different policing skills and approaches, forced to work together to solve unique crimes, explains a CBC press release. Saint-Pierre will premiere Monday, Jan. 6 at 9 p.m. local time (9:30 p.m. NT) on CBC TV, and will be available to stream on CBC Gem starting at 9 a.m. ET on the same day.
Filmed in Iqaluit, Nunavut, North of North (8 x 30 minutes) is a new comedy series co-commissioned by CBC and Netflix in association with APTN, and stars Anna Lambe (True Detective: Night Country, Trickster) as a young Inuk mother trying to build a new future for herself in a small Arctic town where everybody knows her business. North of North will join CBC’s Tuesday night original comedy lineup when it premieres Jan. 7 at 9 p.m. local time (9:30 p.m. NT) on CBC TV. It will also be available to stream on CBC Gem starting at 9 a.m. ET.
Small Achievable Goals (8 x 30 minutes) is a new comedy series starring Baroness von Sketch Show’s Jennifer Whalen and Meredith MacNeill as “two wildly different women in the throes of menopause, thrust together to produce a podcast,” reads a description in CBC’s press release. Small Achievable Goals will debut on Tuesday, Feb. 25 at 9 p.m. local time (9:30 p.m. NT) on CBC TV, and at 9 a.m. ET on CBC Gem.
Series returning to CBC TV this winter include Family Feud Canada (premiering Monday, Dec. 30 at 7:30 p.m. local/8 p.m. NT), Dragons’ Den (Thursday, Jan. 2 at 8 p.m./8:30 p.m. NT), The Nature of Things (Jan. 2 at 9 p.m./9:30 p.m. NT), SkyMed (Sunday, Jan. 5 at 9 p.m./9:30 p.m. NT), Murdoch Mysteries (Monday, Jan. 6 at 8 p.m./8:30 p.m. NT), This Hour Has 22 Minutes (Tuesday, Jan. 7 at 8 p.m./8:30 p.m. NT), Son of a Critch (Jan. 7 at 8:30 p.m./9 p.m. NT), Wild Cards (Wednesday, Jan. 8 at 8 p.m./8:30 p.m. NT), Halifax Comedy Fest (Tuesday, Jan. 14 at 9:30 p.m./10 p.m. NT), Allegiance (Wednesday, Jan. 15 at 9 p.m./9:30 p.m. NT), Stuff the British Stole (Friday, Jan. 24 at 8:30 p.m./9 p.m. NT), Canada’s Ultimate Challenge (Thursday, Feb. 27 at 8 p.m./8:30 p.m. NT), Winnipeg Comedy Festival (Sunday, March 9 at 9 p.m./9:30 p.m. NT), and Bollywed (Thursday, March 20 at 9 p.m. and 9:30 p.m./9:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. NT).
In addition, all episodes of season two of You’re My Hero will be available to stream on CBC Gem starting Friday, March 14, and season two of Ghosting with Luke Hutchie and Matthew Finlan will be available to stream beginning Friday, March 21.
More information on CBC’s winter 2025 slate, including CBC Sports and CBC Kids programming, is available here.
Photos of (l-r) Saint-Pierre’s Joséphine Jobert and Allan Hawco and Small Achievable Goals’ Jennifer Whalen and Meredith MacNeill courtesy of CBC.
