CBC Gem: Shows & Live TV

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this app

Start streaming for free with CBC Gem.

Watch the best shows and movies from across Canada and around the world - all for free. Not only can you watch hundreds of your favourite episodes of shows on demand, you can watch CBC TV live. CBC Gem is home to hit CBC TV shows like Sort Of, Son of a Critch and The Great Canadian Baking Show, along with exclusive series like Normal People, Ghosts, and more.

CBC Gem features:

Stream CBC TV Live

Find full episodes (new episodes added daily)

Explore exclusive TV series from around the world

Discover acclaimed Canadian feature films

Check out ad-free kids programming

Closed captioning and described video

Content is only available to stream within Canada

Sign up for a CBC account to get even more!

CBC Account - FREE

Stream your local CBC TV channel live - access all 14 channels from across the country

Watch past seasons of your favourite shows on demand

Pick up where you left off on any device

Stream CBC News Explore

CBC Gem Premium

Subscribe to Premium to enjoy additional features and content:

Watch on-demand episodes ad-free

Stream CBC News Network live 24/7

Surround Sound

It’s easy to get started - just download CBC Gem, sign up for a CBC account and start your free trial. Cancel anytime.

Ratings and reviews

terrible app, you set it to auto play next episode and it will play about 10 seconds of the episode then skip to the next one, so it completly skips episodes, and when you are watching a series for the first time its confusing and causes spoilers!!! no way to fix it either, cause it does it when you manually select an episode too. 5.99$ for this garbage? fix your app!

I use CBC Gem to watch tv shows. There are A LOT of commercials. I cast the shows from my phone to my Samsung Smart tv. At least once a day it freezes and i have to unplug my Google Chromecast and wait for the reboot. Once it reboots, there are a batch of commercials, then i click on my show and watch another batch of commercials. If i didn't enjoy the shows, that i can't watch anywhere else, i would dump this app. I do not recommend. Btw Chromecast works perfectly with other apps.

Constant logins after the app just logs out every once in a while (on GoogleTV), also one big one ..paying for premium should really negate having to endure commercials. We all know they can be omitted on live broadcasts (you do it on YouTube just having a generic banner), having to watch rapid fire garbage dump if repeating advertising is infuriating. I swear there is more commercials with the app than on broadcast tv services. What is the point of paying more to get less quality like this?!