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daughter of two happily married Communists struggles between fitting in at a new high school and upholding her family's outdated beliefs.
While mixing the comedy and documentary formats we follow the search for Harold Heaven, who mysteriously disappeared from his remote cabin in Ontario, Canada, in the winter of 1934. Local police searched the nearby woods and dredged the adjacent lake, but Harold was never found nor heard from again. 85 years later, his great-great-nephew, Mike, attempts to solve this coldest of cold cases, with the help of his extended family and true-crime-obsessed best friend, Jackson.
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.
BOLLYWED 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.
Lana is a super-feisty, forward-thinking and passionate 11-year-old girl, who is also the heir to her father’s adventuring ship, the Mighty Windbreaker. Along with her captain dad and his diverse crew (an orc, a dwarf, a barbarian and a cyclops), she sails across the Ten Realms, dreaming of becoming one of the greatest adventurers of all time. But first, she must overcome some challenging obstacles: impulsivity, stubbornness, extreme curiosity, disdain for rules … and a love of pancakes. All the best things about her!
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.
Dylan takes on a new career - Doctor, Pizza Chef, Hair Stylist, Sea Captain - and invites his friends Ozzy, Daisy, Bitsy, and the viewers at home to play along with him.
Fledgling Toronto rappers Whyte Wyne and Young Riesling return to Riesling's home in small-town Alberta to run the family business: a Chinese restaurant. Will they chase the beats or be loyal to the eats?
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.
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.
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.
In this Heartland spinoff, Jade Virani is left in charge of Maggie's Diner for an entire week as she tries to prove her worth in order to land the new manager position.
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.
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.
In this series, 10 stars of the ballroom scene pair up with 10 queer and trans filmmakers to battle each other in five categories: Vogue, Bizarre, Sex Siren, Face and Runway. Instead of “walking the ball,” the teams compete by creating stunning short videos that honour the category conventions while serving something fresh and fab.
Raufikat Oyawoye-Salami is on a mission to teach comedians Ann Pornel and Alan Shane Lewis how to bake in this hilarious step-by-step series. When the flour settles, only one will have the Better Bake.
After being rescued from a forest fire that tore through an isolated conversion therapy camp, a group of young men reflect back on a summer of adversity - and all the beauty they wielded in protest.