This is not what the CBC wanted the 2020 fall TV schedule to be. Then again, paths and ideals are gone in the world thanks to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
The CBC is resting shows from the fall schedule in the hopes to give time for episodes to be delivered. Murdoch Mysteries, Frankie Drake Mysteries, Tallboyz, The Great Canadian Baking Show, and Heartland are now scheduled to start in the winter.
The Thursday night lineup is the same as 2019. Baroness von Sketch Show moves to the 9 pm slot on Tuesdays. Just For Laughs and Ha!Ifax Comedy Fest will supplement Tuesday programming depending on need. Pure is back for Season 2 on Mondays. Canadian films will pinch hit for Hockey Night in Canada, unless that is when the NHL playoffs would finally start. Heartland reruns presumably will run Sundays at 7 pm but there is no announcement.
CBC Fall 2020
Monday
The Sounds 8p
Pure 9p
Tuesday
Still Standing 8p
This Hour Has 22 Minutes 8:30p
Baroness von Sketch Show 9p
Catastrophe 9:30p
Wednesday
War Of The Worlds 8p
Trickster 9p
Thursday
Battle of the Blades 8p
Dragons' Den 9p
Friday
Marketplace 8p
You Can’t Ask That / Orangeville Prep 8:30p
The Nature of Things 9p
Saturday
Hockey Night in Canada 7p
Sunday
The Great British Baking Show 8p
Enslaved 9p
bold indicates new series; ital indicates new timeslot
Baroness von Sketch Show to end after 5 seasons this fall
2019 CBC television upfront preview
Let's look at the new shows for the fall:
- Enslaved (6 episodes) is a CBC Gem / documentary channel co-production with Epix. The documentary series is led by Samuel L. Jackson and directed by Canadian filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici charting the history of slavery through underwater archaeology.
- Orangeville Prep (6) explores basketball’s most successful preparatory program located at Orangeville, Ontario.
- The Sounds (8) is a Canada/New Zealand co-production in Pelorus Sounds, New Zealand, a sleepy place that isn't as quiet as it seems. Canadian actor Rachelle Lefevre is the primary female lead.
- Trickster (6) hasn't debuted yet is renewed for a second season. The show is based on the best-selling novel Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson. Joel Oulette and Anna Lambe (pictured) are the leads. Oulette plays Jared, an Indigenous teen who starts seeing strange things.
- War of the Worlds (8) is a UK/France production starring Gabriel Byrne, Elizabeth McGovern, and Daisy Edgar-Jones.
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Under the circumstances, the new shows are mostly Canadian. Other than Trickster, they will be one-and-done. CBC might have been better off showing CBC Gem titles, giving them some extra eyeballs.
New winter titles are Lady Dicks (10), very different female detectives in their early 40s starring Meredith MacNeill and Adrienne C. Moore (Orange is the New Black), and Arctic Vets (10) taking the audience to the wildlife in Canada’s frozen north and the team of veterinarians that keep them healthy and safe.
The release didn't mention Diggstown, Burden of Truth, Fortunate Son, The Detectives, and CBC Docs POV. TV-eh.com normally carries a list of cancelled Canadian TV shows, so we don't know the fate of some of these shows.
photo credit: Trickster series
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