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6 podcast tiles in a collage: Uncover, Love Janessa, Understood, Split Screen: Kid Nation, Personally, Hunting Warhead
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Call for Submissions — Love Me: A new season

The critically-acclaimed series Love Me is looking for stories for Season 4! Click here to read the full Call for Pitches, and here to access the pitch form.

CBC Podcasts is an award-winning studio that competes and thrives on a global stage. We work with creative, talented producers and production companies to make premium quality series.

We accept pitches year round and are interested in captivating stories that can be standalone, live on one of our umbrella feeds below… or launch a new multi-season feed!

  • Uncover - The best in true crime.
  • Understood - Know more, now. Four episode seasons on topical stories.
  • Split Screen - Inside the unsettling and captivating world of entertainment and pop culture. 
  • Personally - Our new memoir umbrella. Extraordinary lives, told by the people who live them such as Run, Hide, Repeat; Welcome to Paradise; Alone: A Love Story and more.
  • Hunting - Launched by Hunting Warhead, international stories from spy thrillers to online crime. The chase, hunt and journey to track down the culprit and understand the phenomenon.

What we're looking for:

  • Ambitious and exciting projects that bring new audiences and garner critical acclaim
  • Stories that can appeal internationally and also be relevant to Canadians
  • Skilled producers who bring creativity, experience and proven ability to make high calibre content
  • Stories that are original and that you ideally have unique access
  • Range of collaborations: in-house producers, the independent sector and established media companies
  • Our slate reflects our diverse and contemporary society

Here are some things to avoid: 

  • Pitches that don't have legs for multiple episodes and better suited to one-off documentaries or segments on existing radio programming
  • Pitches that rely on copyrighted music (due to rights issues)
  • Ideas that are topics versus compelling stories

Please submit your pitch using this Google Form. We strongly recommend saving your answers in a separate document before submitting the form.

Here's what we will ask you in the Google Form:

  • Introduce yourself and what you bring to the table [max 500 characters]
  • Is this for an existing umbrella feed; new umbrella feed or a standalone series?
  • The working title of your podcast. Please include a logline. [max 250 characters]
  • Your elevator pitch or the gist of your idea [max 600 characters] 
  • Why this will bring in audiences and get them to press play [max 450 characters] 
  • How will your podcast sound? What is the format and tone? [max 750 characters] 
  • Number of episodes and episode outline [max 500 characters] 
  • Your role in the production team. [max 500 characters] 
  • Your resume 
  • Audio samples
  • Video and/or image samples (optional)

Please note: A required action before uploading your pitch will be to agree to the terms and conditions of our Pitch Release Agreement. 

Submit your pitch via Google Form

You will get an email confirming that we have received your pitch. If we'd like to learn more about your idea, we will be in touch! If you don't hear back from CBC Podcasts within two months of submitting your pitch, it means the concept isn't for us. But we strongly encourage you to continue pitching in future.