New and returning international series include intense drama SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS (July 4) starring Elizabeth Olsen; the third season of BAFTA-winning comedy STATH LETS FLATS (July 8); the Canadian premiere of Swedish crime drama THE DARK HEART (MÖRKT HJÄRTA) (July 15), an official selection at Sundance 2022; and Season 12 of beloved culinary competition series THE GREAT BRITISH BAKING SHOW (July 10)
Canadian features from CBC Films making their wide broadcast and streaming premieres on CBC and CBC Gem include: AKILLA’S ESCAPE (July 23) directed by Charles Officer; FALLS AROUND HER (July 2) featuring Tantoo Cardinal; and THE SONG OF NAMES (July 30) starring Clive Owen and Tim Roth
CBC original competition from the Bay of Fundy RACE AGAINST THE TIDE returns for a second season with Canadian hip hop legend Maestro Fresh Wes as host and new CBC medical adventure series SKYMED, about the intense personal lives of young nurses and pilots flying air ambulances in the North, both premiere on Sunday, July 10
CBC’s CANADA DAY 2022 lineup features special daytime and evening programming streaming live, showcasing performances and celebrations from across the country (Friday, July 1)
ACCLAIMED INTERNATIONAL SERIES
- SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS (10×30, Drama, Big Beach TV, 2018, USA)
Begins streaming Monday, July 4
SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS follows Leigh Shaw (Elizabeth Olsen, WandaVision), a young woman struggling to put her life back together in the wake of her husband’s unexpected death. As the loss upends and transforms nearly every relationship in Leigh’s life, it also forces her to realize there was a lot about her husband she didn’t know. An unflinching exploration of grief – and one that shows it is not something merely to endure, medicate away, or “muscle through,” but an essential part of the human experience. Also starring Kelly Marie Tran (Star Wars: The Last Jedi), Jovan Adepo (The Leftovers), Mamoudou Athie (The Detour) and Janet McTeer (Marvel’s Jessica Jones).
- STATH LETS FLATS Season 3 (6×30, Comedy, Roughcut Television for Channel 4, 2021 UK)
*Exclusive Canadian Premiere*
Begins streaming Friday, July 8
Set in North London, STATH LETS FLATS follows incompetent Greek-Cypriot lettings agent Stath (Jamie Demetriou, Fleabag, Paddington 2) in his painfully funny attempts to prove himself to his father, and take over as manager of the family business, despite being rubbish at his job. In the third season, Stath is faced with rescuing the family business, Michael & Eagle, and his relationship with Katia, while expecting his first child by Carole. Meanwhile his sister, Sophie, and best friend, Al, deal with the fallout of the events of season two.
- THE GREAT BRITISH BAKING SHOW Season 12 (10×75, Lifestyle, Love Productions, 2021, UK)
*Exclusive Canadian Premiere*
Premieres Sunday, July 10 at 7 p.m. (7:30 NT) on CBC Gem and CBC TV
Twelve new bakers make their way into a brand new bubble as THE GREAT BRITISH BAKING SHOW pitches the UK’s most famous tent in the grounds of Down Hall once again. Noel Fielding and Matt Lucas return to lead the latest batch of bakers through thirty brand new challenges set by Judges Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith.
- THE DARK HEART (MÖRKT HJÄRTA) (5×45, Drama, FLX, 2021, Sweden)
*Canadian Premiere*
Begins streaming Friday, July 15
Sanna (Clara Christiansson Drake, We Are The Best!) and Marcus (Gustav Lindh, Queen of Hearts) are deeply in love. They’ve grown up on two nearby farms in southern Sweden. While Sanna’s father Bengt is a powerful figure in the small village, a millionaire and landowner, Marcus’ family is penniless. In the summer of 2012, Bengt disappears without a trace, the day after Sanna has been given an ultimatum – leave Marcus, or lose her inheritance. Two years later, the police have little to go on with their investigation and the organization Missing People is contacted. Private investigator Tanja (Aliette Opheim, Caliphate) gets obsessed with the case and to solve it, Tanja starts seeing Marcus, risking her own life.
- EXTRAORDINARY EXTENSIONS (4×60, Lifestyle, Avalon Factual, 2021, UK)
*Canadian Premiere*
Begins streaming Monday, July 18
Homeowners across the UK embrace their inner architect and build unique and extraordinary home extensions. Host, rapper, and property and design enthusiast, Tinie Tempah, focuses on the most out-of-the-box constructions and buildings, like a modern extension to a 17th century cottage, a huge structure of glass and so much more.
- CRIME (6×60, Drama, Buccaneer Media & Off Grid Film and TV, 2021, UK)
Begins streaming Friday, July 22
For the first time ever, Irvine Welsh turns his attention to a television drama series with a story adapted from his best-selling novel. As with his masterpiece Trainspotting, the streets of Edinburgh are the setting for CRIME—the story of a tormented detective in a city on the edge of the abyss. Dougray Scott (Mission: Impossible 2, My Week with Marilyn) leads a stellar cast as Detective Inspector Ray Lennox, a man whose clear sight is as much a blessing as it is a curse. A girl goes missing. A town is in fear. A police department fights with itself. A hero is lost, tortured by his own demons. And all the while—watching, waiting—a brutal killer is poised to strike.
- BUMP Season 2 (10×30, Comedy, Roadshow Rough Diamond, 2021, Australia)
*Canadian Exclusive Premiere*
Begins streaming Friday, July 29
Season 2 of BUMP continues to explore unexpected motherhood, unwelcome new relatives, and unintended consequences with humour and emotional honesty. With the expectations of what life was supposed to be still freshly turned upside down, Oly (Nathalie Morris, Black Christmas) and Santi (Carlos Sanson Jr., Mr. Inbetween) get to know each other better, look to the future and discover just how much family can mess you up.
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CBC ORIGINAL SERIES
- RACE AGAINST THE TIDE Season 2 (10×30, Marblemedia, 2021, Canada)
Premieres Sunday, July 10 at 8:30pm (9 NT) on CBC Gem and CBC TV
New Brunswick-based, award-winning Hip Hop artist Maestro Fresh Wes hosts the new season of RACE AGAINST THE TIDE, featuring a new group of sand sculptors who will compete head-to-head at the Bay of Fundy to create extraordinary sand art before the world’s highest tide comes in, while attempting to avoid elimination. Each week, the artists have six hours to create their sand sculptures before the tide washes them away. In the end, the two judges – five-time World Champion Karen Fralich and Master Sculptor Rusty Croft – will decide which duo will walk away with the grand prize of $10,000.
- SKYMED (9×60, Drama, Piazza Entertainment, 2022, Canada)
*World Premiere*
Premieres Sunday, July 10 at 9pm (9:30 NT) on CBC Gem and CBC TV
Life, death, and drama at 20,000 feet, SKYMED is a drama wrapped in high-stakes medical adventure. The series weaves compelling stories around a diverse ensemble of young First Responders in the remote North, where help – and survival – are literally thousands of miles away. Over the course of the season, the trials, triumphs, hookups and heartbreaks of a perilous job in an unforgiving setting will challenge each of them to face their fears and grow up. This hour-long drama from creator Julie Puckrin (X Company, Transplant, Nurses, Killjoys, Mad Men), features an ensemble cast including Natasha Calis (Nurses), Morgan Holmstrom (Siberia), Ace (Aason) Nadjiwon (Batwoman), Praneet Akilla (Nancy Drew), Mercedes Morris (Between), Thomas Elms (The Order), Kheon Clarke (Riverdale), and Rebecca Kwan (Taken).
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DOCUMENTARY
- RBG (1×98, directed by Betsy West/Julie Cohen, 2018, USA)
Begins streaming Friday, July 8
At the age of 85, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had developed a lengthy legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon. But the unique personal journey of her rise to the nation’s highest court has been largely unknown, even to some of her biggest fans – until now. RBG explores Ginsburg’s life and career.
- SKYMASTER DOWN (1×88, directed by Andrew Gregg, 2021, Canada)
Begins streaming Friday, July 15
Set against one of the world’s most spectacular and deadly landscapes, with a cast of fascinating and often heartbreaking characters, SKYMASTER DOWN, a documentary Channel Original film, delves into one of the world’s most incredible unsolved mysteries. On January 26, 1950, taking off in frigid cold with precious few hours of daylight, a US Airforce troop plane left Anchorage, Alaska for Montana with 44 people on board. As they crossed into the Yukon, the crew of the Douglas C-54 Skymaster #2469 radioed the tiny outpost of Snag to say that there was ice forming on the wings, but otherwise all was well. After that, the Skymaster disappeared and to this day no sign of the aircraft or its passengers has ever been found.
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CANADIAN FILMS
- CANADIAN STRAIN (1×79, Comedy, directed by Geordie Sabbagh, 2020, Canada)
Begins streaming Friday, July 1
When cannabis becomes legal in Canada, boutique weed dealer Anne Banting (Jess Salgueiro, Workin’ Moms, The Boys) is swiftly run out of business by the biggest gangsters in town – the government.
- FALLS AROUND HER (1×120, Drama, directed by Darlene Naponse, 2018, Canada)
*Canadian Network Premiere*
Begins streaming Saturday, July 2
Tantoo Cardinal shines as a world-famous Anishinaabe musician who returns to the reserve to rest and recharge — only to discover that fame (and the outside world) are not easily left behind, in writer-director Darlene Naponse’s riveting portrait of resilience set among a northern First Nation.
- A BROTHER’S LOVE (1×117, Comedy, directed by Monia Chokri, 2019, Canada)
Begins streaming Friday, July 8
After failing to secure a faculty position in the Philosophy department, 35-year old Sophia (Anne-Elisabeth Bossé, Heartbeats) is forced to “temporarily” move in with her older brother Karim (Patrick Hivon, Ravenous). Given their close relationship, he’s more than happy to share his place with his little sister. Their unbreakable bond will be put to the test when, for the first time in his life, Karim falls head over heels in love. Feeling abandoned, Sophia is forced to question her real purpose in life and make choices that will allow her to finally become an adult.
- AKILLA’S ESCAPE (1×120, Drama, directed by Charles Officer, 2020, Canada)
*Exclusive Canadian Broadcast Premiere*
Begins streaming Saturday, July 23 on CBC Gem and on CBC TV at 9 p.m. (10 p.m. AT, 10:30 p.m. NT, 3 a.m. PT (July 24))
When a routine deal goes bad, a drug trader (Saul Williams) tries to set things right while unexpected circumstances force him to confront his traumatic origins.
- THE SONG OF NAMES (1×150, Drama, directed by François Girard, 2019, Canada)
*Canadian Network Premiere*
Begins streaming Saturday, July 30 on CBC Gem and on CBC TV at 9 p.m. (10 AT, 10:30 NT, 11 PT)
Martin Simmonds (Tim Roth) has been haunted throughout his life by the mysterious disappearance of his “brother” and extraordinary best friend, a Polish Jewish virtuoso violinist, Dovidl Rapaport, who vanished shortly before the 1951 London debut concert that would have launched his brilliant career. Thirty-five years later, Martin discovers that Dovidl (Clive Owen) may still be alive, and sets out on an obsessive intercontinental search to find him and learn why he left. An emotional story spread over two continents and half a century, the film shows that within the darkest of mysteries sometimes only music has the power to illuminate the truth, heal and redeem. Based on the novel by Norman Lebrecht.
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CANADA DAY
- CBC NEWS SPECIAL: CANADA DAY 2022
Begins streaming Friday, July 1 at 11 a.m. ET
Hosted by Vassy Kapelos with reporting from senior parliamentary reporters Hannah Thibedeau and Travis Dhanraj, this CBC News special is a chance to reconnect after a two-year hiatus from in-person Canada Day celebrations. Airing live from LeBreton Flats in Ottawa, Canada Day 2022 will recognize Canada’s remarkable diversity and showcase its talented artists, featuring speeches from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Governor General Mary Simon and a moment of Indigenous reflection. From the stage in Ottawa, Anne-Marie Withenshaw and Shaun Majumder will join a lineup of talented acts, including: Boogat, Chantal Kreviazuk, DJ Shub, Gurdeep Pandher, Josiane, Kellie Loder, Lisa LeBlanc, Riit, Sarahmée, Sebastian Gaskin and Tenille Townes.</li
- CANADA DAY EVENING CELEBRATION
Begins streaming Friday, July 1 at 8 p.m. local time (9 AT, 9:30 NT)
Isabelle Racicot and Ali Hassan host the evening special live from LeBreton Flats in Ottawa with appearances by Ariane Moffatt, Charlotte Cardin, Cindy Bédard, Gurdeep Pandher, Johnny Reid, Neon Dreams Riit, Salebarbes, Samian, Sarahmée, Sebastian Gaskin, Tenille Arts, Walk Off The Earth and William Prince, sharing their favorite paths they have followed to reach their Canadian audiences and communicate their songs, art and culture. The special will journey from Canada’s Capital Region to Nova Scotia, Quebec, Saskatchewan, British Columbia and the Northwest Territories.
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KIDS
- DINO RANCH Season 2 (26×22, Animated, Industrial Brothers & Boatrocker Studios, 2022, Canada)
Weekly episodes premiere July 23 on CBC Gem and CBC TV
Dino Ranch follows the adventures of the Cassidy Family as they tackle life on the farm in a fantastical, “prewestoric” setting where dinosaurs roam. In the new season, the Dino Ranchers and their dinosaurs take care of their home and herds with creative problem solving and the support of their family.
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THE BEST OF CBC
Past and current seasons of CBC series including ARCTIC VETS, PRETTY HARD CASES, THE GREAT CANADIAN BAKING SHOW, FRANKIE DRAKE MYSTERIES, HEARTLAND, MURDOCH MYSTERIES, STILL STANDING, TALLBOYZ, KIM’S CONVENIENCE, BARONESS VON SKETCH SHOW, and SCHITT’S CREEK; and classic CBC hits like BEING ERICA.
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COMING IN AUGUST
- C’EST COMME ÇA QUE JE T’AIME (HAPPILY MARRIED) Season 2
- BOBBY & HARRIET GET MARRIED
- NO RETURN
- PARAISO
- Emancipation Day Collection