Bell Media has released its initial original content slate for 2025-26, including 116 new and previously announced titles.

The lineup includes the first projects to emerge from the company’s co-development deals with Elliot Page’s Pageboy Productions and Tom Green. Most of these projects are designated for Bell Media’s Crave, while projects on its other services include several made-for-television movies for its CTV Life Channel.

Bell Media has also commissioned series from Scott Brothers Entertainment, Sphere Media, Neshama Entertainment, Attraction and Blink49 Studios.

For what’s not included in the slate, a spokesperson for Bell Media confirmed the broadcaster is not moving forward with Sasha Leigh Henry’s limited series Bad Trips, as international financing has not lined up.

Scripted series

Slo Pitch (10 x 30 minutes) is produced by Shaftesbury and Pageboy Productions and is the only project for both Crave and CTV. The comedy follows a queer underdog softball team who are chasing their dreams of making it to the beer league championships.

Blink49 Studios, along with Front Street Pictures, is behind Yaga for Crave (8 x 30/4 x 60 minutes), a dramatic series – inspired by the Baba Yaga myth – featuring a private investigator who travels to a small coastal town to investigate the disappearance of an heir to a powerful fishery.

Anna Pigeon (10 x 60 minutes) is Bell Media’s first co-commission with Versant’s USA Network, alongside producers Cineflix Studios, December Films and Seven24 Films. The drama, based on the novels by Nevada Barr, follows the titular former city slicker who became a park ranger after a drastic change in her life.

Accent Aigu Entertainment is producing Heated Rivalry (6 x 60 minutes) for Crave. Jacob Tierney writes, directs and is an executive producer on the romance drama, based on the book from Rachel Reid.

The drama Seoul Palace (6 x 60 minutes) from Toronto’s Banger Films, the fantasy-horror Sigil (8 x 60 minutes; Triscope Studios) and an untiled Jared Keeso comedy (6 x 30 minutes) from New Metric Media are part of Crave’s original lineup as well.

Crave’s French-language commissions are the previously announced comedy Les Crues (3 x 60 minutes; Juste pour rire), the series version of the Bon Cop Bad Cop films (6 x 60 minutes; Attraction, Panik Fictions), Derive (8 x 60 minutes; Zone 3) and Je te tiens (8 x 60 minutes; Passez Go).

Previously announced English-language scripted projects are Crave’s The Borderline, formerly known as Underbelly (6 x 60 minutes; Shaftesbury) and CTV Sci-fi Channel’s Revival (10 x 60 minutes; Blue Ice Pictures, Hemmings Films).

Returning scripted series include Crave’s Super Team Canada (Electric Avenue, Atomic Cartoons), renewed for season two; Late Bloomer (Pier 21) and The Trades (Trailer Park Boys and Kontent House Productions), both coming back for season three; and CTV’s Sullivan’s Crossing, heading into season four along with Acting Good (CTV Comedy Channel).

Unscripted series

Tom Green’s Funny Farm (8 x 60 minutes) is produced by Tom Green Productions for Crave. The unscripted interview series features the titular actor and comedian engaging guests in extended, magazine-style interviews at his rural Ontario farm.

Scott Brothers Entertainment builds on the streamer’s unscripted slate with Make Yourself Over (16 x 30 minutes), featuring contestants attempting to recreate iconic looks that capitalize on popular beauty trends and genres.

Blink49 Studios is producing Blue Collar (10 x 60 minutes) featuring Letterkenny and The Trades actor Dan Petronijevic as he gets first-hand experience in industries such as construction and oil rigging.

Shadow Pine Studios and Scrimmy Media are behind Hockey Fanatics (8 x 30 minutes). It accompanies host Dave Foley and celebrity guests as they travel across North America to explore hockey fandoms in their home cities.

In other unscripted projects, Temptation Under the Sun (10 x 60 minutes; Productions J) is based on Crave’s French-language Occupation double: tentations au soleil while RDS is producing the docuseries Toujours Canadiens (3 x 60 minutes).

Bell Media has also commissioned four unscripted true crime docuseries for its flagship streamer including Above Suspicion (3 x 60 minutes) from Peacock Alley Entertainment, The Christine Jessop Story from Alibi Entertainment, Narco Mennonites from MEM in association with Last Word Entertainment and an untitled docuseries from Neshama Entertainment that follows a group of victims seeking redemptive justice.

Attraction’s West Harbour Heroes (10 x 60 minutes) is set to air on the USA Network while the Martin Short-hosted Canadian edition of Match Game (10 x 60 minutes; Fremantle, Attraction) is set for CTV.

The docuseries Monster Trucks en tournee (8 x 30 minutes), produced by Urbania, has been commissioned for the French-language Canal D, delving into the biggest monster truck show in the country.

Crave’s French-language unscripted commissions include Apres od Mexique (7 x 12 minutes) from Productions J; the previously announced Les morin-perras sous le meme toit (10 x 30 minutes; Attraction); and the docuseries Luc le milliardaire (3 x 60 minutes) from Sphere Media.

The only English-language previously announced unscripted project is Project Runway Canada (10 x 60 minutes; Bell Media Studios).

Returning series include CTV Comedy Channel’s season five of Roast Battle Canada (CTV Comedy Channel), joining previously announced CTV renewals Masterchef Canada (MEM), The Amazing Race Canada and The Traitors Canada (Entourage).

Documentaries and MOWs

As part of its documentary slate, Crave greenlit Hoser: The Movie, directed and produced by Nick and Mark McKinney alongside Yap Films. The 90-minute film explores the Canadian culture archetype of the “hoser.”

The lineup includes two films from Grand Scheme: Relax, Open Your Eyes and the Indigenous basketball doc Saints & Warriors, produced by InnoNative and Uninterrupted Canada.

Wildling Pictures is producing the 90-minute doc Skinnamarink Forever, while Jen Markowitz and Jacob Ulrich are behind Wonderland of Chaos (also 90 minutes).

A Lifetime in Photobooths is produced by EyeSteel Productions and Four Thousand Words Productions. The 90-minute doc follows a drag king’s efforts to protect analogue photobooths from being overtaken by the digital age.

Jérémie: Rendez-vous à la plage from Zone 3 is part of the French-language documentary slate. The doc acts as a 60-minute reunion for the five-season Quebec drama Jérémie (Zone 3).

Crave’s documentary slate is rounded out by Turtle Island Rap from Scenario Media, following three Indigenous rappers over the course of a year as they try to break into the music industry.

For Oxygen True Crime, Bell Media commissioned the 90-minute documentary My Nightmare Stalker (Forte Entertainment).

Bell Media has also commissioned six MOWs for its CTV Life Channel as part of the company’s deal with Harlequin Studios. Five of the two-hour projects are produced by Neshama Entertainment in association with Centinel Media, Harlequin and Fremantle and comprise Montana Mavericks, Ordinary Girl in a Tiara, Paws in the City, Savvy Sheldon Feels Good as Hell and Second Guessing Fate.

Recipe for Romance, the sixth two-hour MOW, is produced by Circle Blue and Freddie Films in association with Neshama Entertainment.

Previously announced documentaries for Crave include Singhs in the Ring from Fennessey Films and Score G Productions; Modern Whore, produced by Lauren Grant, Nicole Bazuin and Andrea Werhun; and the French-language Générations burnout from Offner Productions.

Pictured (L-R): Elliot Page (photo by Joe Maher/Getty Images) and Tom Green (photo by Troy Conrad)