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Love always wins at an iconic bridal shop in Toronto's Little India, owned by Kuki Singh and his family for 37 years.

Reality | 1 season

Bollywed

Ring in the new year with CBC and Rick Mercer, featuring performances from Devon Cole, JJ Wilde, OKAY TK, Vincent Valliers, Chad Price, Savannah Re, Kardinal, James Barker Band, and Leela Gilday.

Specials | 47 min

Canada's New Year's Eve: Countdown to 2023

On the heels of the highly successful Back in Time for Dinner comes Back in Time for Christmas, revealing how family life has been shaped by the way people celebrate the holidays.

Documentary | 1 season

Back in Time for Christmas

Black Canadian immigrants share the joys and obstacles on their paths to Black excellence. From their first steps in Canada to the moments that shaped their lives. These are their journeys here.

Documentary | 1 episode

Being Black in Canada: My Journey Here

Jamie’s Quick & Easy Christmas delivers utterly delicious results with all of the flavour but none of the fuss. It’s the easy way to an impressive Christmas.

Reality | 47 min

Jamie's Quick & Easy Christmas

It’s time to go Back In Time For Winter to experience how 60 years of cold have shaped the way we live. How has it impacted our diets, our fashions, our activities and our lifestyles? How have changes in technology, trade and the economy, and our social make-up changed our experience of winter? And how does it differ across the country?

Back in Time for Winter

Asha Tomlinson hosts a half-hour special, Being Black in Canada. It's a look at the challenges facing Black Canadians in this time of racial reckoning, with people continuing their journey for social justice and determined to effect long-lasting change.

News | 23 min

Being Black in Canada with Asha Tomlinson

Professor Tim Flannery investigates how seaweed in helping to save the world - from growing the foods of the future, helping save the reef, and even combating climate change.

Can Seaweed Save the World?

Former mother/daughter singing duo Ashlyn and Bonnie Rose have a rocky relationship. After a 15-year hiatus, their manager devises a plan to reignite their once successful career and mend their relationship by having them record a Christmas album.

Drama | 86 min

Rock 'N Roll Christmas

Sloan returns home for the holidays and gets caught up in a mysterious treasure hunt with her paintball-obsessed best friend, her tango-dancing grandmother and her childhood sweetheart.

Drama | 92 min

Holly Star

Jamie’s Festive Feast is a celebration of those lazy winter days at the end of the year. The festive period is the perfect time to kick back, spend some quality time with family and friends, and cook up some amazing dishes.

Reality | 44 min

Jamie's Festive Feast

A Sweet & Sour Christmas is the story behind a family-run Chinese restaurant spreading their deep-fried holiday cheer and also taking a bit of time during the seasonal rush for their own holiday celebration (Cantonese language content).

Documentary | 17 min

A Sweet and Sour Christmas

Jamie Oliver has been cooking Christmas for his family for 20 years. In that time, he’s experimented with loads of different ways of cooking the classics. But this year, he wants to show us his ultimate recipes - the ones he’s decided that really are the very very best for Christmas. These are the dishes he’ll be cooking on the big day for his own family this year!

Reality | 1 episode

Jamie Oliver's Christmas Cookbook

Nadiya Hussain is sharing her favourite party dishes, the perfect food to hand around and share. Like melt in the mouth halloumi chips, smoked mackerel pâté choux, and sticky lamb ribs. She also joins a group of school children as they deliver a big thank you to 95-year-old volunteer Jack, lending a hand to Gilly who’s preparing one of her spectacular homemade trifles and helps bake an extra special cake for the surprise birthday party of twin sisters Sonia and Sunita.

Reality | 59 min

Nadiya's Party Feasts

Featuring intimate, charming interviews with queer Canadians ranging in age seventeen to eighty-eight, Take Me To Prom invites audiences to revisit this iconic adolescent milestone. Meet Alf, a quiet wallflower with a secret crush. Fontaine only remembers the details of his date’s dress. Marcy skipped her prom for a wild escapade. Alphonso staged a liberating protest with his friends. Marc bravely went to court so he could take his boyfriend to prom. Carmen’s traumatic prom marked the beginning of her inspiring transformation. And Caroline’s story captures the complex reality faced by queer youth today. Vivid set design, re-enactments and archival footage transport audiences across seventy years of teenage heartbreak and rebellion - all while telling a story of social change over seven decades.

Documentary | 21 min

Take Me to Prom

New Year's Eve stand-up special featuring Ron James.

Drama | 44 min

Ron James: The High Road (2017)

To mark Black History month Asha Tomlinson hosts Being Black in Canada. The program highlights the work of two Windsor teachers who show their students what's missing in many of their history books. Asha speaks with Book of Negroes author Lawrence Hill about how the TV mini-series is bringing Canadian Black history to a wider audience, and we hear the story of Western Canada's Black Pioneers and how they're preserving their ancestors' history.

Being Black in Canada (2015)

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