Bell Media and CBC have unveiled their 2025/26 programming lineups, including their respective slates of new original content.
Bell Media’s 2025/26 lineup of English and French-language original content and documentaries features a total of 116 titles.
New series coming to Bell’s Crave streaming service include a six-episode order for romance, Heated Rivalry, based on the best-selling novel by Rachel Reid. From executive producer Jacob Tierney, the series is now in production in Toronto, Hamilton, Guelph, and Muskoka, and stars Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie.
The network has also announced the first project under a co-development deal with Elliot Page’s PAGEBOY Productions – Slo Pitch, a comedy series about a scrappy, queer softball team – from Shaftesbury for CTV and Crave, and the first title from a similar development deal with Tom Green – Tom Green’s Funny Farm, a magazine-style interview show. Additionally, Letterkenny and Shoresy creator Jared Keeso’s new, yet-to-titled Crave Original series, produced by New Metric Media, starts production later this fall and is set to premiere in 2026.
Also based on a best-selling novel, Anna Pigeon, is Bell Media’s first co-commission with Versant’s USA Network, alongside Cineflix Studios and December Films, a procedural about a ranger who solves crimes in America’s national parks, from award-winning Canadian showrunner Morwyn Brebner.
Crave has also given new Scott Brothers Entertainment competition series Make Yourself Over a greenlight, as well as the previously-announced Project Runway Canada, hosted by Coco Rocha and featuring Fashion Television icon Jeanne Beker as a judge, alongside designers Aurora James and Spencer Badu.
Newly-announced Crave Original series include: Temptation Under the Sun, an English spin-off of Québec series OD: Tentations Au Soleil; Hockey Fanatics, hosted by Dave Foley, as he gets up close and personal with celebrity hockey fans including Mike Myers, Jason Priestley, and Wynonna Judd; SIGIL, a fantasy-horror drama from executive producers Devery Jacobs, Lilly Wachowski, and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Chris Lavis; drama series Seoul Palace, inspired by the history of Lee’s Palace, the legendary Toronto club and concert hall.
Six new made-for-television films have also been announced as part of Bell Media’s deal with Harlequin Studios.
New series coming to CTV
New offerings coming to CTV include the highly anticipated 9-1-1 spin-off series from Ryan Murphy, 9-1-1: Nashville, starring Chris O’Donnell, alongside Jessica Capshaw, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, and LeAnn Rimes; and Boston Blue, an extension of the long-running drama Blue Bloods that sees Donnie Wahlberg reprise his role as NYPD officer Danny Reagan, with Sonequa Martin-Green as detective Lena Silver.
Tracy Morgan-led comedy The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins, starring Daniel Radcliffe, and executive produced by 30 ROCK creators Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, also joins the lineup as does new Josh Charles comedy Best Medicine, and dramatic thriller Memory of a Killer, starring Patrick Dempsey.
In daytime, CTV has announced that starting Sept. 15, CTV Your Morning broadcasts will evolve with dedicated, rebranded morning shows for Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatchewan, Winnipeg, Ottawa and Atlantic, weekdays from 6 – 9 a.m. The national version of the show will continue to serve its audience on CTV East (Ontario, Quebec, Atlantic) and CTV News Channel.
CBC
CBC’s 2025-26 programming slate features over 50 new and returning original series from Canadian creators, producers and storytellers.
New Original factual series include The Assembly. In each episode, Canadian celebrities like Jann Arden, Allan Hawco, Howie Mandel, and Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, face a group of 30 atypical interviewers, all on the autism spectrum. The format is an adaptation of French series Les Rencontres du Papotin. Radio-Canada has also greenlit a new French-language adaptation of the format, Facteur A.
Locals Welcome, hosted and executive produced by food writer Suresh Doss, is a celebration of lesser-known food places that make up the fabric of communities. The series is based on a format created by one of the producers of Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown.
Must Love Dogs is a reality series following the lives of CFL All-Star and two-time Grey Cup winner Brady Oliveira and realtor-rescue influencer Alex Blumberg. Together with the dedicated volunteers of K9 Advocacy, they rescue and find forever homes for dogs in need across Manitoba.
New original doc series set to air over the upcoming year include: Diamonds & Plastic, diving into the story of Montreal-based Maria Meriano—one of the top Tupperware product sellers on the planet—as she fights to keep her empire alive during the iconic brand’s most uncertain chapter yet: bankruptcy. Cirque Life is a new docuseries pulling back the curtain on Cirque du Soleil, while three-part docuseries Running Smoke is the true story of NASCAR driver Derek White of Kahnawà:ke , the biggest tobacco-smuggling bust in North American history, and the future of Indigenous rights.
New kids and tweens programming includes Hey Joojo!, a new live-action short-format series for kids aged 4-6; 2D animation series The Adventures of Toopy & Binoo; The Unstoppable Jenny Garcia, written by Catherine Hernandez for a tween audience, following a 13-year-old hip-hop dancer as her life is disrupted by news that she has leukemia; Dino Ranch: Island Explorers; and animated series Andrew The Big Big Unicorn.
