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Black Life: Untold Stories
2023
This new CBC documentary series uses contemporary interviews and archival footage to chronicle Canada’s long history of anti-Black racism, including episodes on police brutality and the rise of hip-hop music.Telling Our Story
2023
Telling Our Story
2023
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.Revenge of the Black Best Friend
2022
star 8An 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.The Communist's Daughter
2021
In the thick of the Reagan '80s, the daughter of two happily married Communists struggles between fitting in at a new high school and upholding her family's outdated beliefs.I Hate People, People Hate Me
2023
Perpetually disturbed by the world around them, two twenty-somethings navigate their lives as underdogs in Toronto’s queer community. As a chubby gay man and misanthropic trans girl, they don’t exactly adhere to the “ideal gay image,” While the pair have their share of grievances with fellow queers AND society at large this jaded and judgmental duo aren’t completely innocent either.The Legacy Awards
2022
The Legacy Awards
2022
The inaugural edition of The Black Academy’s award show, The Legacy Awards, is the first major Canadian award show to celebrate and showcase Black talent and will be broadcast from Live Nation Canada’s newest entertainment venue HISTORY, in Toronto’s east end.Hello (Again)
2022
Hello (Again)
2022
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.Ghosting
2024
star 1.5Stepping off script horror actors turned amateur ghostbusters, Luke Hutchie and Matthew Finlan, bring celebrity guests on paranormal adventures to see if haunted places are truly haunted.Art, Death & Taxes
2020
Art, Death & Taxes
2020
Art, Death & Taxes unpacks the art world’s greatest taboo: money. Eight acclaimed artists explore the economics of their practice, peeling back the curtain on all the work that goes into the work.Hey Lady!
2020
star 1Nothing 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.Bollywed
2023
star 7BOLLYWED is a heartwarming docuseries centred around the Singh family, who have been operating the iconic bridal shop, Chandan Fashion, in Toronto’s Little India for almost 40 years.The Ninth
2019
The Ninth
2019
Why the hell would you want to play for the Toronto Boxsprings? They’re a bad team in a lousy inter-county league. They’re owned by a crappy discount mattress store. Even their locker room sucks - stuck in the leaky basement of a local dive bar.virgins!
2022
virgins!
2022
Set in Toronto, virgins! is a dramatic comedy created by Aden Abebe that follows the lives of four 20-something year-old women who are too modest for the big city and too provocative for the East-African homes they come from. Doe-eyed in-betweeners, they are not just virgins in the biblical sense but in life experience as well.For the Culture with Amanda Parris
2024
In this point-of-view documentary series, award-winning writer, executive producer and host Amanda Parris leaves the wars raging on social media to create space for urgent and provocative conversations that centre Blackness and Black folks.Push
2023
Push
2023
PUSH takes audiences into the inner world of the “Wheelie Peeps,” an unlikely group of friends and wheelchair users, bonded by their shared experience of navigating life on wheels.LIDO TV
2022
LIDO TV
2022
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.The Bannocking
2023
star 9A mysterious sickness quickly spreads a small community as an estranged family struggles to come together.Absolutely Canadian
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Absolutely Canadian
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Absolutely Canadian is a Canadian television series, which airs weekdays on CBC Newsworld, CBC Television and CBC Country Canada. A news and information series about Canadian communities, the show is anchored each week from a different Canadian city.Topline
2022
Topline
2022
A young reclusive singer/songwriter is discovered online and invited to join a mysterious, high-pressure music production team that creates hits for superstars.Near or Far
2024
Near or Far
2024
Sisters Lauren and Sadie are inseparable twins until going separate ways, exposing differing memories and secrets that lead to a rift and betrayal between them.
