CBC Gem: Shows & Live TV

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this app

Start streaming for free with CBC Gem, Canada's Home for Streaming.

Watch the best shows, movies, and now live sports from across Canada and around the world — all for free on CBC Gem. Enjoy hundreds of your favourite episodes on demand, and watch live TV channels, including sports events. CBC Gem is home to hit shows like Schitt’s Creek, Murdoch Mysteries, Wild Cards, and global hits like The Great British Baking Show and Ghosts. Now with even more sports coverage, there’s something for everyone!

CBC Gem features:
• Stream CBC TV Live - access all 14 channels from across the country
• Find new episodes and full seasons
• Explore exclusive TV series from around the world
• Discover acclaimed Canadian feature films and documentaries
• Check out ad-free kids programming
• Closed captioning and described video
• Stream CBC News Explore
• Stream CBC Comedy
• Stream Olympic Channel
• 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

Try Premium free for one week, then continue your subscription for $5.99/month plus taxes. 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

This app needs to fix its ads. While it's a free app from a company that has a tv channel. The ads coming in like every 20 minutes is horrendous. Especially if you're watching a 2 plus hour movie. For example when I was watching 12 Years a Slave there were 8 ads altogether each coming in around every 20 minutes or so. Just makes watching on this free streaming app horrendous. Fix it so it's like Amazon, Disney Plus or even Tubi with ads but fewer which allows a better watching experience.

What a huge improvement this app has gone through since I last used it two years ago, they really listened to the feedback! The layout is amazing with a nice menu at the bottom. It has a great continue watching section, favorites and casting ability that fixes a convention to your TV once and then you can move freely in the app going from show to show, other apps can learn from this one. My one issue is that I cannot use the keyboard on the TV version of the app thus I can't search or login.

update: this is the worst streaming app I've ever used and I'm not being dramatic. I fell asleep during an episode of a show, and tried to go back to the episode, forced to watch 4 ads just to OPEN the episode, then tried to skip to where I j thought I may have fallen asleep, the SAME 4 ADS ALL OVER AGAIN AND AGAIN. this app is not good for casting. if you hit the skip ahead button, it jumps you back to the start, with no option to go back to where you were. you can't skip ahead at all.

What’s new

Bug fixes and performance improvements.

For help, please visit http://cbc.ca/help