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List of years 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.

Programs

Programs debuting in 2025

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

Specials

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

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.

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