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BlackBerryBlackBerry
CBC Gem, 2023 Cancelled/Ended | Comedy, Drama, History, Mini-Series

The extended series version of the BlackBerry feature film, featuring never-before-seen footage, charts the rise and fall of the world's first smartphone.


Something UndoneSomething Undone
CBC Gem, 2021 Cancelled/Ended | Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Horror

When a foley artist goes home to settle her late mother's estate, she discovers a dark family secret and becomes obsessed with finding the truth.


Ghosting with Luke Hutchie and Matthew FinlanGhosting with Luke Hutchie and Matthew Finlan
CBC Gem, 2024 Running | Comedy, Adventure, Mystery, Reality

A comedy series, that follows Hutchie and Finlan, two actors known exclusively for their work in the horror genre, as they step off script and into their own real-life thriller on their quest to decipher if Canada's most haunted places are truly haunted. In each episode, the amateur ghost-wrangling duo are joined by celebrity guests, to meet locals who claim to have experienced a real-life haunting. While investigating the renowned site, they see if it lives up to the local ghost lore as they work to reach a verdict of "haunted" or "not" alongside their celebrity guest.


The BannockingThe Bannocking
CBC Gem, 2023 Running | Drama, Horror

A mysterious sickness quickly spreads a small community as an estranged family struggles to come together.


Near or FarNear or Far
CBC Gem In Development | Drama

Sisters Lauren and Sadie Mostafa are closer than most siblings. Not only because they're twins, but also because they belong to one of the only immigrant families in their bucolic lakefront Ontario town, necessitating a hive mind for code-switching, managing their high-strung parents, and keeping a lid on the details of their teenage lives. But for the first time in 18 years, the twins are going their separate ways, though vow to remain as close as ever as they venture down opposite paths. However, their time apart begins to reveal cracks in their family tree and realizations that their memories of shared moments bear no resemblance to one another, igniting a match that sees the twins keeping secrets, hiding truths, and careening towards an irreparable betrayal.


ZarqaZarqa
CBC Gem, 2022 Running | Comedy

Zarqa - a divorced, middle-aged Muslim woman - strives to reinvent herself... until her impulsive and vindictive personality gets in the way.


How to Fail as a PopstarHow to Fail as a Popstar
CBC Gem, 2023 Running | Comedy

In order to become a popstar, a queer brown boy with a huge voice is doing everything he can. Told by the queer trans femme that boy becomes, looking back on how and why that dream was never realized.


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