We have the new and returning CBC shows for the 2023-2024 season. Let's see what we have in store.
Murdoch Mysteries (Season 17), This Hour Has 22 Minutes (Season 31), The Fifth Estate (Season 49), and Marketplace (Season 51) run in the fall and winter.
Fall
Both new dramas in the autumn stem from Canadian films. Blackberry is an extended 3-part series from the feature film.
The series stars Jay Baruchel as Mike Lazaridis, American actor Glenn Howerton as Jim Balsillie, and Matt Johnson (also director and co-writer of the film) as Mike's friend and business partner Doug.
Bones of Crows is a 5-part series from the Marie Clements film about a family rocked by being removed from their family home and forced into Canada’s residential school system. This was scheduled to be released along with the film.
Sort Of (Season 3) and The New Wave of Standup (Seasons 2 and 3) will be returning comedies this fall. Heartland (Season 16) and SkyMed (Season 2) are also back in autumn. The latter show moves up from the summer schedule. SkyMed got a Best Drama Series nomination at the 2023 Canadian Screen Awards. The show airs in the U.S. on Paramount+.
Dragons' Den (Season 18), The Great Canadian Baking Show (Season 7), Still Standing (Season 9), The Passionate Eye (Season 9), and Best In Miniature (Season 3) are back in the fall.
Winter
Standup comedian D.J. Demers fronts a workplace comedy called One More Time. Demers plays a variation of himself as the hearing-impaired manager of a second-hand sporting goods store.
The CBC winter schedule has 2 new dramas. Allegiance features a rookie cop named Sabrina Singh who finds herself caught between loyalties after her father, the Minister of Public Safety, is arrested on terror charges. Wild Cards is a "crime-solving procedural with a comedic twist that follows the unlikely duo of a gruff, sardonic cop and a bubbly, clever con woman" set in Vancouver.
Run the Burbs (Season 3) and Son of a Critch (Season 3) return this winter to CBC.
The Nature of Things (Season 63) along with Season 2 of Bollywed, Push, Canada's Ultimate Challenge, and Stuff The British Stole also return this winter.
The new "factual" show is The Great Canadian Pottery Throw Down, based off of the UK show The Great Pottery Throw Down.
Summer
Moonshine (Season 3) moves to summer. Race Against The Tide (Season 3) debuts on July 16 at 8:30 pm followed by Moonshine at 9 pm.
Shows that are done
Strays is done after 2 seasons. Diggstown reached its conclusion with Season 4. We have also noted the departure of Workin' Moms (7 seasons) and Pretty Hard Cases (3 seasons). We aren't sure if there was supposed to be a Season 2 of Plan B with Patrick J. Adams and Karine Vanasse.
2023 Canadian Screen Awards wrapup
2023 Canadian Screen Awards nominations: Television
We normally list the CBC fall schedule. That was not included in the CBC release that came out today.
2023 CBC television winter preview
2022 CBC television fall preview
2022 CBC television upfront preview
We don't normally note non-Canadian programs on the CBC schedule. The press release mentions 2 shows coming to the fall lineup that have aired on Fox in the United States. Both shows involve Joel McHale, who is not Canadian: Animal Control and Crime Scene Kitchen. Animal Control is on CBC Gem, which feels like an odd choice. Canadians can easily access U.S. programs through major U.S. networks.
CBC time should be devoted to Canadian shows. Any filler should be shows not easily available in Canada.
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We will cover Canadian TV upfronts from the private networks (CTV, Global, Citytv) in a later article.
photo credit: Bones of Crows/CBC
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