Rogers Sports & Media, Corus Entertainment and Amazon Prime Video are among the networks unveiling their programming slates at Upfront presentations, aimed at securing advertising commitments for the coming year.
Rogers programming announcements include a new slate of Canadian original programming for its specialty networks like HGTV and Food Network, after scooping the rights to Warner Bros. Discovery content in Canada from Bell Media and Corus Entertainment.
New fall titles set to premiere across Food Network, HGTV and Citytv+ include Andy’s East Coast Kitchen Crawl, Bake Master Battle, Come Dine with Me Canada, David Rocco’s Eating Dirty, The County featuring Sarah Keenleyside, Small Town Escapes with Colin & Justin, plus a project in development with Sarah Richardson. Property Brothers’ Drew and Jonathan Scott will also star in new HGTV series Property Brothers: Commitment Issues (working title), set to premiere in 2026. Rounding out the slate is Home Town Takeover Canada, featuring Ben and Erin Napier. In keeping with the same format as the HGTV U.S. hit, the series will breathe new life into a yet-to-be announced community.
Other new Canadian originals destined for Citytv include The Price is Right Tonight (working title), a one-hour primetime edition of the long-running game show, hosted by comedian and television personality Howie Mandel. Slated to air in Spring 2026, the initial season will feature 12 episodes with production to begin this December in Toronto.
Global / Corus Entertainment
Global TV’s 2025/26 broadcast season features seven new series, including workplace comedy DMV with ensemble cast Harriet Dyer, Tim Meadows, Tony Cavalero, Molly Kearney, Gigi Zumbado and Alex Tarranta. Also joining the lineup is CIA, from executive producer Dick Wolf, starring Tom Ellis as a loose cannon CIA case officer. Fire Country spin-off Sheriff Country and The Road – a new singing competition series that follows country artist Keith Urban on his journey to discover the next big artist with the help of “tour manager” Gretchen Wilson, also join the fall schedule.
Corus Entertainment’s specialty networks’ roster reflects its long-term partnership with NBCUniversal, drawing from the Peacock and Sky Original series catalogue. New Showcase titles include The Paper, a mockumentary starring Domhnall Gleeson (About Time, Ex-Machina) and Sabrina Impacciatore (The White Lotus). It sees the documentary crew that immortalized Dunder Mifflin’s Scranton branch in The Office in search of a new subject when they discover a historic Midwestern newspaper and the publisher trying to revive it. Also new is The Copenhagen Test, starring Simu Liu, an espionage thriller following a first generation-American intelligence analyst who realizes his brain has been hacked; PONIES, a spy thriller series starring Emilia Clarke and Haley Lu Richardson; and Amadeus, a new Sky limited series starring Will Sharpe (The White Lotus) and Paul Bettany (A Very British Scandal, WandaVision) that centers around a 25-year-old Amadeus (Sharpe) eager to break free from his child prodigy past and controlling father.
W Network’s schedule features suburban-thriller Peacock series All Her Fault, starring Sarah Snook as a working mother who arrives to collect her young son from his first playdate, but the woman who answers the door isn’t a mother she recognizes. Also coming to the network is dark comedy, The ‘Burbs starring Keke Palmer, which follows a young couple who reluctantly relocate to the husband’s childhood home. W Network also continues to be the exclusive Canadian destination for Hallmark Channel content, including original series Celebrations with Lacey Chabert, where the star surprises deserving kids, families and adults making extraordinary impacts in their communities, Christmas at Sea,a four-part unscripted series where Hallmark stars interact with fans on a cruise ship, joins the holiday slate.
Corus’ rebranded Lifestyle and Factual brands – Home Network and Flavour Network – will debut new Bryan and Sarah Baeumler vehicle, Building Baeumler, which sees the couple juggle personal and commercial renovations in the Bahamas, Florida Keys, and Georgian Bay.
Two new Canadian faces join the Home Network lineup this fall: designer Natalie Chong with Rentovation and self-taught DIYer Kristen Coutts in Beer Budget Reno. Home Network will also premiere Life is Messy from Scott Brothers Entertainment designer/realtor Kortney Wilson and contractor Kenny Brain, helping overwhelmed homeowners tackle the most chaotic households. New Flavour Network Canadian Originals include Halloween Bakeshop and Holiday Bakeshop, hosted by Canadian actress and comedian Lauren Ash.
Prime Video
Prime Video also announced a slate of new Canadian original series and films during its inaugural Amazon Upfronts in Canada. Programming offerings include the second season of the NHL docuseries FACEOFF: Inside the NHL, true-crime docuseries ROMCON: Who the F**k is Jason Porter?, highly-anticipated music documentary, Simple Plan: The Kids in the Crowd, the first season of French-language Amazon Original Karaoké Club and Season 4 of LOL: Qui Rira Le Dernier?, as well as a first look at comedian Martin Matte’s Vitrerie Joyal, and the greenlight of Trailer Trash (Working Title), a new comedy docuseries about a family-owned RV camper salvage empire in rural Alberta.
