The CBC on Thursday unveiled its winter 2012 schedule, led by the Adam Beach-starring drama Arctic Air (pictured) on Tuesdays, and the new sitcom Mr. D on Monday nights.

Beach will play Bobby Martel, one of a group of renegade pilots based in Yellowknife, in the one-hour drama on Tuesdays at 9 p.m.

The adventure drama was created by Ian Weir and comes from indie producer Omni Film Productions.

And Canadian comic Gerry Dee plays a Toronto private school teacher who gives lessons on subjects he knows nothing about in Mr. D.

The new sitcom from Topsail Productions will air on Mondays at 8 p.m., just ahead of the returning Little Mosque on the Prairie at 8:30 p.m., to be followed by another new show, the Proper Television reality series Redemption Inc., which gives ex-cons a second chance in business and stars Kevin O’Leary.

There’s also TV movies and miniseries like 8^th Fire, a four-part journey through Aboriginal Canada, The Wrath of Grapes: Keep Your Head Up, Kid – Part 2, the sequel to Keep Your Head Up, Kid: The Don Cherry Story, and Sunshine Sketches of a Little Down, based on the writings of Stephen Leacock, and the return of the one-hour special Spelling Night in Canada.

Other returning CBC series include Rick Mercer Report, Dragons’ Den and Hockey Night in Canada, and the CBC will continue stripping the American game shows Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune nightly in the 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. primetime slot.