2025 in Canadian television

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.

Upcoming events

January

Date	Event	Source
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]

Programs

Programs debuting in 2025

Start date	Show	Channel	Source
January 6	Saint-Pierre	CBC Television	[3]
January 7	North of North
February 10	Novelette Is Trying	OUTtv	[4]
February 25	Small Achievable Goals	CBC Television	[3]
TBA	Bad Trips	Crave	[5]
	Beer Budget Reno	Home	[6]
	Big Burger Battle	Flavour
	Building Baeumler	Home
	Drag Brunch Saved My Life	Crave	[7]
	Life Is Messy	Home	[6]
	Locals Welcome	CBC Television	[8]
	My Pet Ate What?	CTV Wild	[9]
	One Day We'll All Be Dead	Crave	[10]
	Pamela's Cooking with Love	Flavour	[6]
	Queen of the Castle	CTV Life	[9]
	Rentovation	Home	[6]
	Revival	CTV Sci-Fi	[9]
	Shipwreck Kings	Discovery	[9]
	Snotty Nose Rez Kids	CBC Television	[11]
	Sounds Black	History	[12]
	Super Team Canada	Crave	[13]
	Yukon Rescue	History	[12]

Specials

Start date	Show	Channel	Source
March 30	Juno Awards of 2025	CBC	[14]
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

See also: 2024 Canadian specialty television realignment

Network launches

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

Network rebrandings

Old network name	New network name	Type	Conversion date	Notes
Animal Planet	CTV Wild Channel	Cable/satellite	January 1
Discovery Channel (original)	USA Network			Outgoing rightsholder to this brand; channel operated by Bell Media
Discovery Science	CTV Nature Channel
Discovery Velocity	CTV Speed Channel
Investigation Discovery (original)	Oxygen True Crime			Outgoing rightsholder to this brand; channel operated by Bell Media

See also

• List of Canadian films of 2025

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. Jamie Casemore, "CBC sets winter 2025 streaming, broadcast lineup". Playback, November 28, 2024.
4. Kelly Townsend, "OutTV commissions Vancouver scripted series, renews five titles". Playback, June 6, 2024.
5. Alex Nino Gheciu, "New Will Arnett animated show, Drag Race series coming to Bell this fall/winter". Lakeland Today, June 6, 2024.
6. Connie Thiessen, "Corus unveils more programming details around rebranded Home Network, Flavour Network". Broadcast Dialogue, October 21, 2024.
7. Megan LaPierre, "Priyanka Helms New TV Show 'Drag Brunch Saved My Life'". Exclaim!, June 6, 2024.
8. Justin Anderson, "Food format “Locals Welcome,” new docs among CBC’s 2024-25 slate". RealScreen, May 23, 2024.
9. 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.
10. Cassandra Szklarski, "CTV adds homegrown baking contest, quiz show while Crave leans into edgy comedies". Toronto Star, June 9, 2022.
11. 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.
12. Alex Nino Gheciu, "New Pamela Anderson, Bryan Baeumler shows among Corus’ fall/winter plans". CityNews, June 5, 2024.
13. Alex Nino Gheciu, "New Will Arnett animated show, Drag Race series coming to Bell this fall/winter". Yahoo! News, June 6, 2024.
14. Stuart Derdeyn, "Vancouver to host the 54th Juno Awards in 2025". Vancouver Sun, January 25, 2024.

External links

• List of 2025 Canadian television series at IMDb