Television

Our new and returning January shows: what starts when?

Your guide to all of the new and returning shows coming to CBC this January.

Your guide to all of the new and returning shows coming to CBC this January.

We have a full slate of returning favourites and great new series for you starting in January.

Whether you like to watch from your couch or on-the-go, we'll have your viewing needs covered with CBC Television and CBC Gem.

SUNDAY, JANUARY 6


7pm / 7:30NT - Heartland (Season 12)​

Season 12 of HEARTLAND sees the Bartlett-Fleming clan dealing with day-to-day challenges and pursuing forgotten dreams. Their strength will be tested as they face personal struggles and must look to one another for guidance and support.

       

MONDAY, JANUARY 7


9pm / 9:30NT - Coroner (new series)

Jenny Cooper is a Toronto coroner, investigating unexplained or sudden deaths. She's also a newly-widowed single mother with secrets of her own to unearth.

       

TUESDAY, JANUARY 8


8pm / 8:30NT - Kim's Convenience (Season 3)

KIM'S CONVENIENCE is the funny, heartfelt story of the Kims, a Korean-Canadian family, running a convenience store in downtown Toronto.

9pm / 9:30NT - Schitt's Creek (Season 5)

Follow the trials of the Rose family as they navigate their new-found poverty – and each other – in Schitt's Creek, a town they once purchased as a joke.

9:30pm / 10NT - Cavendish (new series)

Brothers Mark and Andy return to Cavendish for the first time since childhood to care for their ailing father who runs The Museum of the Strange and Fantastic.

     

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9


8pm / 8:30NT - Burden of Truth (Season 2)

If Joanna Hanley's going to fix herself, she has to start where it all began – with uncovering all of her family's deepest secrets.

9pm / 9:30NT - Unspeakable (Season 1)

Unspeakable is based on emotionally charged personal accounts as well as Andre Picard's Gift of Death: Confronting Canada's Tainted Blood Tragedy, Vic Parson's Bad Blood: The Tragedy of the Canadian Tainted Blood Scandal, and The Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Canadian Blood Tragedy, led by Justice Horace Krever.

       

THURSDAY, JANUARY 10


9pm / 9:30NT - Workin' Moms (Season 3)

Workin' Moms follows the lives of four women as they juggle love, careers, and parenthood. Whether it is an identity crisis, a huge job opportunity, postpartum depression, or an unplanned pregnancy – they face both the good and bad with grace and humour.

       

FRIDAY, JANUARY 11


8:30pm / 9NT - The Stats of Life (Season 2)

Through census data, surveys and studies, we now know more about ourselves than ever before. But what's the story behind the stats? In our diverse modern world, is there still such a thing as 'average?'

       

THURSDAY, JANUARY 17


9:30pm / 10NT - Little Dog (Season 2)

Tommy 'Little Dog' Ross is on the run after winning a fight he was supposed to throw, screwing over Tucker, and inadvertently losing his mother's house. To make life even messier, Tommy is trying to parent a child he didn't know he had and win Pamela back at the same time.

       

All shows will be available live on CBC Television and streaming on CBC Gem.