Canadian TV, a list by Melody

5.4

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100

/1/

A daily hour of fun, food, and laughs, featuring lifestyle trends, home hacks, audience games, and inspiring stories – all from top experts. Mary Berg dives right in – from sharing daily, delicious and approachable recipes for the home cook, to cook-a-long sessions with guest chefs, and getting her hands dirty with gardening, DIYs, home renovations and more. As well, Berg welcomes notable guests, including authors, celebrities, influencers, and everyday heroes.

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7.5

/193/

68

/35/

64

/11/

A true crime series that takes viewers deep into some of Canada’s most infamous criminal cases. Using extensive archives and intimate family interviews, each week new details are revealed that go beyond the news headlines giving a voice to victims and their families, unraveling how each case was solved, and exploring lasting impacts on the community and justice system.

65

19

6.7

/621/

66

/82/

62

/16/

The ultimate culinary competition offers home cooks a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to demonstrate their skill and passion, as they compete for $100,000 and the title of Canada’s next MasterChef.

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17

7.3

/642/

68

/92/

54

/12/

Follow a group of contestants – including some familiar faces – who live together as they complete a series of challenges with the goal of earning a cash prize. The catch? Some of the contestants are traitors who will attempt to deceive and manipulate their way to the prize instead of sharing it amongst the group. In this psychological adventure will the traitors be unmasked in time?

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5.6

/246/

53

/8/

50

/1/

After a botched attempt to move to Winnipeg, Paul retreats back to his eccentric family in the fly-in community of Grouse Lake First Nation.

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81

7.4

/5549/

77

/265/

84

/113/

98

/33/

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Detective Charlie Hudson teams up with what he calls his "highly trained law enforcement animal" German Shepherd dog named Rex who he prefers to team up with because he doesn't talk his ear off.

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7.4

/3131/

73

/195/

73

/33/

Lawyer and recovering alcoholic Abigail Bianchi is struggling to put her career and family back together after hitting rock bottom. As a condition of her probation, Abby is forced to work at her estranged father’s firm, Svensson and Associates, and practice in family law for the first time while forging new relationships with the half-brother and half-sister whom she’s never met. The result is a dysfunctional family law firm operating to help other families with their own dysfunctions.

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30

7.7

/863/

72

/166/

78

/15/

A uniquely Canadian take on the original series, with ten teams of two racing around the world to amazing locations for the $1,000,000 prize.

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57

/4/

47

/3/

Battle of the Generations asks not only how well you know your own generation, but how well you know your rivals’ generations – ultimately resolving the question of which generation has what it takes to win it all.

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70

/4/

100

/1/

Follows the non-stop, courageous work of the people tasked with keeping the shipping lanes clear, container ships stocked, and the goods flowing in and out of the harbour of St. John’s, Newfoundland.

73

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7.9

/149/

72

/23/

68

/4/

Contractor Mike Holmes teams up with his kids, Michael Holmes Jr. and Sherry Holmes, to rescue clients who have nowhere else to turn after living through botched construction jobs.

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72

7.2

/7422/

76

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87

/38/

age 13+

After Neurosurgeon Maggie Sullivan’s personal and professional life are thrown into turmoil she returns home to Sullivan’s Crossing. While there, Maggie is forced to navigate her complicated present while confronting the painful past she has chosen to ignore for years.

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55

7.3

/2114/

66

/134/

69

/25/

100

/5/

An elite squad of detectives investigate high-profile crime and corruption in metro Toronto.

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Canadian socialite Ann Kaplan Mulholland and her husband Dr. Stephen Mulholland turn their medieval castle into a luxurious destination.

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Got Talent is the world’s greatest talent competition for acts of all ages and sets out to discover the most unique, skilled, heartwarming and showstopping performers Canada has to offer. Dancers, singers, illusionists, comedians, and every imaginable talent in between will compete before a panel of celebrity judges, a live studio audience and the entire nation.

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6.3

/1353/

68

/105/

77

/17/

age 14+

Homicide detective Tess Avery is forced to quit the job she loves after nearly killing her partner and being diagnosed as clinically blind. Reluctant to accept help, Tess uses an assistance app and connects with Sunny Patel, a professional seeing-eye guide and agoraphobe living 3,000 miles away. Haunted by the unsolved cases she left behind, Tess uses a hidden camera and earpiece, while Sunny remotely steers Tess through life's obstacles -- and crimes -- as the two challenge preconceptions about ability, trust and where to draw the line.

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6.8

/1531/

70

/90/

57

/16/

age 14+

Astrid and James, who struggle to find a balance between being mom and dad to two kids and being who they were before offspring.

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3.3

/210/

The Halifax Comedy Festival is an annual comedy festival held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The festival is sponsored by the CBC which tapes and broadcasts the comedians' sets as a series of television specials, and is usually about one week long. Shows frequently take place at the Halifax Casino in The Schooner Showroom among other venues. Live tapings of CBC Radio's hit show The Debaters have become a part of the annual festival, frequently using comedians who are performing in the festival as the 'debaters'.

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68

7.7

/3646/

72

/271/

75

/49/

76

A crew of car lovers at a garage in the Rocky Mountains transforms abandoned heaps of rust into collectible classics.

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20

/1/

Western Canadian motorheads obsessed with turning abandoned trucks into custom gems, hunt for old rust buckets, drag them out of the bush and go to great lengths to transform them into vintage classics.

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5.8

/65/

60

/2/

Five Canadians searching for their soulmates open up their farms – and their hearts – to a select group of urban singles. As they live and work together, the daters must adjust to a new lifestyle, and immerse themselves in a series of challenges, group activities, and intimate one-on-one dates with the goal of finding their one true love.

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6.9

/112/

A look at how the Regional Animal Protection Society (RAPS) Animal Hospital works tirelessly to offer low-income pet families access to top healthcare.

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39

6.8

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70

/233/

50

/38/

A Canadian reality television show in which a group of contestants, known as "house guests", are sequestered in the Big Brother House, under the surveillance of cameras and microphones, for the chance to win a grand prize of $100,000 by being the last remaining house guest. Each week, the house guests vote to evict one of their own until two house guests remain on finale night. The winner is decided by the last seven evicted house guests, known as the Big Brother Jury.

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8.0

/10/

100

/1/

Chef Spencer Watts prepares hearty, healthy meals.

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6.8

/91/

58

/7/

70

/4/

Join Mary Berg as she takes it step by step through recipes guaranteed to impress without the stress.

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7.9

/6690/

75

/427/

74

/139/

Metacritic

66

/5/

age 14+

Dr. Bashir Hamed, a Syrian doctor with battle-tested skills in emergency medicine, makes the difficult decision to flee his country and build a new life in Canada with his younger sister Amira. Bash works to navigate a new environment after earning a coveted residency in the Emergency Department of one of the best hospitals in Toronto, York Memorial.

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9.2

/17/

Odeen Eccleston and Lamont Wiltshire build their real estate empire.

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6

1.0

/6643/

21

/32/

11

/20/

age 12+

Follows Robyn Loxley and anti-authoritarian masked hip-hop band, The Hood, as they call out injustices and fight for freedom and equality in the city of New Nottingham.

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20

/1/

30

/1/

Show centres around Creative Director Autumn Hachey as she embarks on the biggest project of her career.

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20

/1/

40

/1/

Celebrity chef and cookbook author, Spencer Watts celebrates sunny days, family, friends and the best food summer has to offer in this all new, fun filled backyard grilling series.

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7.2

/24/

56

/3/

When the leads dry up and a case goes cold, there’s only one thing that keeps investigators going—the hunch that Somebody’s Hiding Something. From grieving family and friends to jilted lovers and eyewitnesses, investigators pores over every detail and discrepancy to uncover the motive for the murder—along with the reason for suppressing a key piece of evidence. It’s a real-life psychological thriller, and every episode features a genuine murder mystery that keeps armchair detectives guessing until the very last frame.

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6.6

/67/

58

/15/

Everybody deserves a second shot at love and the brave and brokenhearted fan faves from The Bachelor universe (Canada, U.S....and maybe even abroad) are ready to go another round. They are following their hearts to an all-new Paradise for a quintessentially Canadian summer of love. Follow former bachelors and bachelorettes as they explore new relationships in their secluded love-nest on the lake where their only job is to soak up the summer sun, cozy up by the bonfire, frolic in the water, take long romantic canoe rides under the vast Canadian star-filled sky...and fall in love.

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6.5

/1000/

63

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76

/12/

Follows the lives of the Murrays as they struggle to keep their beloved ranch afloat.

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5.8

/631/

64

/41/

64

/9/

The eclectic staff and patrons in the underfunded Jameson branch of the Metropolitan Public Library deal with the community and each other’s eccentricities.

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6.6

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63

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63

/11/

80

/5/

67

age 11+

Former police officer Darby Spencer and her mystery novelist mother Victoria Spencer have opposite personalities but still embark on the unlikeliest of ventures: becoming partners in a private detective agency. They are mistaken as sisters as they tackle puzzling cases in Alder Bluffs.

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6.0

/392/

60

/23/

63

/3/

An ex-cop turned private eye, Marissa Wong, ends up being forced to work with Sarah Winchester, an inexperienced young woman fresh out of university. Each episode, the unlikely duo to solve their client’s cases, which often end up being far more dangerous than they first appear.

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Cross Country Cake Off invites cake makers from across the country to compete for the title of Canada's Best Cake Maker.

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7.5

/637/

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/23/

60

/3/

age 14+

In Jann, Jann Arden plays a fictionalized, self-deprecating version of herself: a singer songwriter of a “certain age” in severe denial of the harsh reality that her former music career is slowly (okay rapidly) fading away. But it’s not just Jann’s career that’s on life support – she’s newly single (don’t remind her), her sister may disown her, and her mother may be showing early signs of memory loss. Jann's personal life is in shambles and she's convinced that the cure-all is to enlist a new manager to help rebrand her image. Filled with plenty of LOL moments, she embarks on a quest to return to greatness and go viral, but instead gets tangled in the pressures of her ‘real’ life. Jann is at the crossroads between who she was and who she wants to be. Can Jann stage a comeback, reclaim fame…and be there for the people who love her?

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52

6.2

/2870/

70

/182/

73

/107/

33

/6/

71

Metacritic

50

/4/

age 14+

Follow five young nurses working on the frontlines of a busy hospital in downtown Toronto, dedicating their lives to helping others, while struggling to help themselves.

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72

7.3

/6406/

74

/432/

73

/141/

Ex-pro hockey player Matt Shade irrevocably changes his life when he teams up with fierce P.I. Angie Everett to form an unlikely investigative powerhouse.

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47

6.9

/1517/

66

/131/

59

/22/

80

/10/

64

age 12+

Unknown histories take center stage as the hitmakers themselves - from ABBA to T-Pain - explore dimensions of pop music you never knew existed.

45

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4.3

/348/

53

/11/

40

/5/

In Toronto, best friends Jen and Mo decide to become roommates when Mo's parents move back to the Philippines and Jen takes the opportunity to live independent from her Chinese immigrant parents.

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7.5

/69/

69

/13/

83

/3/

Inspired by people who are making a difference in their communities, each episode follows the Holmes family as they surprise these deserving people by transforming their spaces.

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7.9

/117/

52

/4/

50

/1/

Heritage Minutes, also known officially as Historica Minutes: History by the Minute, are a series of sixty-second short films, each illustrating an important moment in Canadian history. They appear frequently on Canadian television and in cinemas before movies and are now also sold on DVD. The Minutes were first introduced on March 31, 1991 as part of a one-off heavily-promoted history quiz show hosted by Rex Murphy. The thirteen original short films were broken up and run between shows on CBC Television and CTV Network. The continued broadcast of the Minutes and the production of new ones was pioneered by Charles Bronfman's CRB Foundation, Canada Post Power Broadcasting, and the National Film Board. They were devised, developed and largely narrated by noted Canadian broadcaster Patrick Watson, while the producer of the series was Robert Guy Scully. In 2009 Historica merged with The Dominion Institute to become The Historica-Dominion Institute. While the foundations have not paid networks to air Minutes, they have made them freely available, and in the early years paid to have them run in cinemas across the country. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has ruled that Heritage Minutes are an "on-going dramatic series" thus each minute counts as ninety-seconds of a station's Canadian content requirements.

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5.4

/77/

13

/3/

30

/1/

A comedy series starring Jon Dore as the new Human Resources Manager for ComedyTM. Each episode showcases three to four separate interviews with A-list comedians via webcam, with all conversations falling under a specific HR-related theme. From conflict resolution, to accountability, moral liability to personal hygiene, Jon takes great pleasure in analyzing and correcting the behaviour of the episode’s guest comedians.

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6.0

/72/

10

/1/

Whether it’s a birthday, anniversary, a sports game, or just expressing gratitude for a loved one, Mary's Kitchen Crush is filled with recipes for every occasion. As Mary Berg prepares the meal, she guides viewers thoroughly the recipe, offering up plenty of helpful tips and takeaways.

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10

/1/

The summer music doesn't end, even when we're apart. Iconic waterfront music venue, Budweiser Stage comes from downtown Toronto into your living room.

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7.8

/12997/

74

/723/

69

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88

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