2025 in Canadian television

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The following is a list of events affecting Canadian television in 2025. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, cancellations, and channel launches, closures and rebrandings.

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Upcoming events

January

DateEventSource
1 Rogers Sports & Media's new agreement for Warner Bros. Discovery lifestyle and factual brands, announced in June 2024, takes effect. New versions of five WBD-licensed channel brands previously licensed to Bell Media or Corus Entertainment launched under Rogers ownership, with other affected brands available through Citytv+. Five Discovery-branded channels owned by Bell rebranded, two adopting new brands licensed from NBCUniversal. [1] [2]

February

DateEventSource
10 Sid Seixeiro and Meredith Shaw simultaneously depart as hosts of Citytv's Breakfast Television . [3]

Programs

Programs debuting in 2025

Start dateShowChannelSource
January 6 Saint-Pierre CBC Television [4]
January 7 North of North
February 10Novelette Is Trying OUTtv [5]
February 18 Hanomansing Tonight CBC News Network [6]
February 25 Small Achievable Goals CBC Television [4]
TBABad Trips Crave [7]
Beer Budget Reno Home [8]
Big Burger Battle Flavour
Building Baeumler Home
Drag Brunch Saved My Life Crave [9]
Life Is Messy Home [8]
Locals Welcome CBC Television [10]
My Pet Ate What? CTV Wild [11]
One Day We'll All Be Dead Crave [12]
Pamela's Cooking with Love Flavour [8]
Queen of the Castle CTV Life [11]
Rentovation Home [8]
Revival CTV Sci-Fi [11]
Shipwreck Kings Discovery [11]
Snotty Nose Rez Kids CBC Television [13]
Sounds Black History [14]
Super Team Canada Crave [15]
Yukon Rescue History [14]

Specials

Start dateShowChannelSource
March 30 Juno Awards of 2025 CBC [16]
November 16 112th Grey Cup CTV, TSN
Dates TBA 13th Canadian Screen Awards CBC
2025 Canadian Country Music Awards CTV
27th Quebec Cinema Awards Noovo

Networks and services

Network launches

NetworkTypeLaunch dateNotes
Discovery Cable and satellite January 1New channels operated by Rogers Sports & Media, under brands previously used by different channels
Food Network
HGTV
Investigation Discovery
Magnolia Network

Network rebrandings

Old network nameNew network nameTypeConversion dateNotes
Animal Planet CTV Wild Channel Cable/satelliteJanuary 1 Bell Media channels relaunched due to previous programming and brand rights being acquired by Rogers.
Discovery Channel (original) USA Network
Discovery Science CTV Nature Channel
Discovery Velocity CTV Speed Channel
Investigation Discovery (original) Oxygen True Crime

See also

Notes

    References

    1. ↑ Thiessen, Connie (August 28, 2024). "Rogers outlines plans to launch new channels". Broadcast Dialogue. Retrieved August 29, 2024.
    2. ↑ Thiessen, Connie (2024-10-17). "Bell to bring USA Network, Oxygen True Crime to Canada". Broadcast Dialogue. Retrieved 2024-10-17.
    3. ↑ Leanne Delap, "Breakfast Television hosts Meredith Shaw and Sid Seixeiro’s abrupt exit leaves audiences reeling: ‘Viewers are blindsided’". Toronto Star , February 11, 2025.
    4. 1 2 Jamie Casemore, "CBC sets winter 2025 streaming, broadcast lineup". Playback , November 28, 2024.
    5. ↑ Kelly Townsend, "OutTV commissions Vancouver scripted series, renews five titles". Playback , June 6, 2024.
    6. ↑ Cassandra Szklarski, "Ian Hanomansing to host live CBC News Network prime-time show from Vancouver". Toronto Star , February 12, 2025.
    7. ↑ Alex Nino Gheciu, "New Will Arnett animated show, Drag Race series coming to Bell this fall/winter". Lakeland Today, June 6, 2024.
    8. 1 2 3 4 Connie Thiessen, "Corus unveils more programming details around rebranded Home Network, Flavour Network". Broadcast Dialogue, October 21, 2024.
    9. ↑ Megan LaPierre, "Priyanka Helms New TV Show 'Drag Brunch Saved My Life'". Exclaim! , June 6, 2024.
    10. ↑ Justin Anderson, "Food format “Locals Welcome,” new docs among CBC’s 2024-25 slate". RealScreen , May 23, 2024.
    11. 1 2 3 4 Jesse Whittock, "Canada’s Crave Confirms U.S. & UK Titles & Will Arnett Voice Role In ‘Super Team Canada’ As Streamer Aims To Topple Rivals: 'We Know We Can Do More'. Deadline Hollywood , June 7, 2024.
    12. ↑ Cassandra Szklarski, "CTV adds homegrown baking contest, quiz show while Crave leans into edgy comedies". Toronto Star , June 9, 2022.
    13. ↑ Jesse Whittock, "CBC’s 2024-25 Slate Includes Netflix Comedy, Sitcom From ‘Baroness Von Sketch’ Pair & Music Doc Backed By Idris Elba; Simu Liu To Guest On ‘Dragons’ Den’". Deadline Hollywood , May 23, 2024.
    14. 1 2 Alex Nino Gheciu, "New Pamela Anderson, Bryan Baeumler shows among Corus’ fall/winter plans". CityNews , June 5, 2024.
    15. ↑ Alex Nino Gheciu, "New Will Arnett animated show, Drag Race series coming to Bell this fall/winter". Yahoo! News , June 6, 2024.
    16. ↑ Stuart Derdeyn, "Vancouver to host the 54th Juno Awards in 2025". Vancouver Sun , January 25, 2024.
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