The 2020–21 network television schedule for the five major English commercial broadcast networks in Canada covers primetime hours from September 2020 through August 2021. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 2019–20 television season, for Canadian, American and other series. CBC was first to announce its fall schedule on May 27, 2020,[1] [2] followed by Citytv on June 22,[3] and CTV and Global on June 23.[4] [5] CTV was first to announce its winter schedule on December 1,[6] followed by Global on December 16[7] and the CBC on December 17, 2020.[8] As in the past, the commercial networks' announcements come shortly after they have had a chance to buy Canadian rights to new American series. CTV 2 is not included on Saturday as it normally only schedules encore programming in primetime on Saturdays.
style=width:10% colspan=2 | Network | style=width:11.5% | 7:00 p.m. | style=width:11.5% | 7:30 p.m. | style=width:11.5% | 8:00 p.m. | style=width:11.5% | 8:30 p.m. | style=width:11.5%" | 9:00 p.m. | style=width:11.5% | 9:30 p.m. | style=width:11.5% | 10:00 p.m. | style=width:11.5% | 10:30 p.m. |
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CBC | Fall | style=background:#f08080 | Because News | The Great British Baking Show | style=background:#f08080 colspan=2 | Enslaved | style=background:#f08080 colspan=2 rowspan=3 | The National | |||||||||
Winter | style=background:#f08080 colspan=2 rowspan=2 | Heartland | Les Misérables | Les Misérables | |||||||||||||
Mid-Winter | style=background:#f08080 colspan=2 | The Great Canadian Baking Show | Belgravia | ||||||||||||||
Citytv | Fall | style=background:#abbfff colspan=2 | Local programming | The Simpsons | Bless the Harts | Bob's Burgers | Family Guy | Card Sharks | |||||||||
Winter | The Simpsons | Bless the Harts | American Idol | Bob's Burgers | Family Guy | ||||||||||||
Summer | style=background:#abbfff | Local programming | Duncanville | Celebrity Family Feud | The Chase | style=background:#C0C0C0 colspan=2 | Mom | ||||||||||
CTV | Fall | style=background:lightgreen rowspan=2 | NFL overrun | style=background:lightgreen rowspan=2 | NFL on CTV Live | style=background:#C0C0C0 colspan=6 | Encore programming | ||||||||||
Mid-fall | Supermarket Sweep | Who Wants to Be a Millionaire | Weakest Link | ||||||||||||||
Winter | Encore programming | Holmes Family Effect | MasterChef Canada | The Rookie | |||||||||||||
Late winter | The Big Bang Theory | Ellen's Game of Games | Who Wants to Be a Millionaire | ||||||||||||||
Spring | style=background:#C0C0C0 colspan=2 | Ellen's Game of Games | The Rookie | ||||||||||||||
Summer | style=background:#C0C0C0 colspan="2" | Encore programming | Wipeout | Love Island | |||||||||||||
CTV 2 | Fall | style=background:#C0C0C0 colspan=2 | Encore programming | style=background:lightgreen | Football Night in America | NBC Sunday Night Football | |||||||||||
Winter | Encore programming | ||||||||||||||||
Global | Fall | style=background:#6699CC colspan=2 rowspan=3 | 60 Minutes | Big Brother | |||||||||||||
Winter | The Equalizer | ||||||||||||||||
Summer | Big Brother | style=background:#f08080 rowspan=2 colspan=2 | Nurses | style=background:#6699CC colspan=2 | 48 Hours | ||||||||||||
style=width:10% colspan=2 | Network | style=width:11.5% | 7:00 p.m. | style=width:11.5% | 7:30 p.m. | style=width:11.5% | 8:00 p.m. | style=width:11.5% | 8:30 p.m. | style=width:11.5% | 9:00 p.m. | style=width:11.5% | 9:30 p.m. | style=width:11.5% | 10:00 p.m. | style=width:11.5% | 10:30 p.m. |
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CBC | Fall | Coronation Street | style=background:#f08080 rowspan=2 | Family Feud Canada | style=background:#f08080 colspan=2 | The Sounds | style=background:#f08080 colspan=2 | Pure | style=background:#f08080 colspan=2 rowspan=2 | The National | |||||||
Winter | style=background:#f08080 colspan=2 | Murdoch Mysteries | style=background:#f08080 colspan=2 | Frankie Drake Mysteries | |||||||||||||
Citytv | Fall | Local programming | Dancing with the Stars | The Twilight Zone | |||||||||||||
Winter | The Bachelor | Encore programming | |||||||||||||||
Spring | American Idol | ||||||||||||||||
Late spring | Hell's Kitchen: Young Guns | The Bachelorette | The Republic of Sarah | ||||||||||||||
Summer | Bachelor in Paradise | ||||||||||||||||
CTV | Fall | Etalk | The Big Bang Theory | style=background:#f08080 | Jann | style=background:#C0C0C0 | Encore programming | Filthy Rich | Weakest Link | ||||||||
Mid-fall | Encore programming | Bob Hearts Abishola | All Rise | The Good Doctor | |||||||||||||
Winter | All Rise | ||||||||||||||||
Spring | B Positive | ||||||||||||||||
Late spring | style=background:#f08080 | Etalk | style=background:#C0C0C0 | The Big Bang Theory | American Ninja Warrior | The Celebrity Dating Game | |||||||||||
CTV 2 | Fall | style=background:#C0C0C0 rowspan="4" | The Big Bang Theory | style=background:#f08080 rowspan="4" | Etalk | American Ninja Warrior | Encore programming | ||||||||||
Mid-fall | The Voice | Filthy Rich | |||||||||||||||
Winter | Encore programming | ||||||||||||||||
Spring | Encore programming | HouseBroken | Encore programming | ||||||||||||||
Global | Fall | ET | style=background:#f08080 rowspan=6 | ET Canada | style=background:#C0C0C0 colspan=2 | The Neighborhood | One Day at a Time | Manhunt: Deadly Games | |||||||||
Mid-fall | style=background:#f08080 colspan=2 | Private Eyes | Next | Bull | |||||||||||||
Winter | 9-1-1 | The Wall | |||||||||||||||
Spring | style=background:#f08080 colspan=2 | Big Brother Canada | |||||||||||||||
Summer | The Neighborhood | Call Your Mother | style=background:#f08080 rowspan=2 colspan=2 | Nurses | Small Fortune | ||||||||||||
style=width:10% colspan=2 | Network | style=width:11.5% | 7:00 p.m. | style=width:11.5% | 7:30 p.m. | style=width:11.5% | 8:00 p.m. | style=width:11.5% | 8:30 p.m. | style=width:11.5% | 9:00 p.m. | style=width:11.5% | 9:30 p.m. | style=width:11.5% | 10:00 p.m. | style=width:11.5% | 10:30 p.m. |
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CBC | Fall | Coronation Street | style=background:#f08080 rowspan=3 | Family Feud Canada | style=background:#f08080 | Still Standing | style=background:#f08080 rowspan=3 | 22 Minutes | style=background:#f08080 rowspan=2 | Baroness von Sketch Show | Catastrophe | style=background:#f08080 colspan=2 rowspan=3 | The National | ||||
Winter | style=background:#f08080 rowspan=2 | Kim's Convenience | style=background:#f08080 | Humour Resources | |||||||||||||
Mid-winter | style=background:#f08080 | Workin' Moms | style=background:#f08080 | TallBoyz | |||||||||||||
Citytv | Fall | style=background:#abbfff rowspan="2" colspan="2" | Local programming | The Bachelorette | Encore programming | ||||||||||||
Winter | style=background:#f08080 colspan="2" | Hudson and Rex | Black-ish | Mixed-ish | Mom | ||||||||||||
Mid-winter | Black-ish | Mixed-ish | Young Rock | Kenan | style=background:#f08080 colspan="2" | Hudson and Rex | |||||||||||
Spring | style=background:#abbfff colspan="2" | Local programming | America's Got Talent | Capital One College Bowl | |||||||||||||
CTV | Fall | style=background:#f08080 rowspan="5" | Etalk | style=background:#C0C0C0 rowspan="5" | The Big Bang Theory | Encore programming | Ellen's Game of Games | style=background:#C0C0C0 colspan="2" | |||||||||
Mid-fall | The Voice | This Is Us | Big Sky | ||||||||||||||
Winter | The Resident | ||||||||||||||||
Spring | Lego Masters | Mental Samurai | style=background:#C0C0C0 colspan="2" | ||||||||||||||
Summer | Love Island | ||||||||||||||||
CTV 2 | style=background:#C0C0C0 | The Big Bang Theory | style=background:#f08080 | Etalk | In the Dark | Encore programming | |||||||||||
Global | Fall | ET | style=background:#f08080 rowspan=2 | ET Canada | style=background:#C0C0C0 colspan=2 | NCIS | Next | style=background:#6699CC colspan=2 | The FBI Declassified | ||||||||
Mid-fall / Winter | NCIS | FBI | |||||||||||||||
Spring | Prodigal Son | New Amsterdam | |||||||||||||||
Summer | ET | style=background:#f08080 | ET Canada | style=background:#C0C0C0 colspan=2 | NCIS | Fantasy Island | style=background:#C0C0C0 colspan=2 | ||||||||||
style=width:10% colspan=2 | Network | style=width:11.5% | 7:00 p.m. | style=width:11.5% | 7:30 p.m. | style=width:11.5% | 8:00 p.m. | style=width:11.5% | 8:30 p.m. | style=width:11.5% | 9:00 p.m. | style=width:11.5% | 9:30 p.m. | style=width:11.5% | 10:00 p.m. | style=width:11.5% | 10:30 p.m. |
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CBC | Fall | Coronation Street | style=background:#f08080 rowspan=3 | Family Feud Canada | War of the Worlds | style=background:#f08080 colspan=2 | Trickster | style=background:#f08080 colspan=2 rowspan=3 | The National | ||||||||
Winter | Encore programming | Quiz | |||||||||||||||
Mid-winter | style=background:#f08080 colspan=2 | Coroner | style=background:#f08080 colspan=2 | Pretty Hard Cases | |||||||||||||
Citytv | Fall/Winter | style=background:#abbfff colspan="2" | Local programming | Chicago Med | Chicago Fire | Chicago P.D. | |||||||||||
Spring | A Million Little Things | ||||||||||||||||
Late spring | style=background:#abbfff colspan="2" | Local programming | Press Your Luck | style=background:#C0C0C0 colspan="2" rowspan="2" | Card Sharks | ||||||||||||
Summer | Press Your Luck | America's Got Talent | style=background:#C0C0C0 colspan=2 | Mom | |||||||||||||
CTV | Fall | The Amazing Race | The Masked Singer | The Goldbergs | The Conners | For Life | |||||||||||
Winter | style=background:#f08080 rowspan="5" | Etalk | style=background:#C0C0C0 rowspan="5" | The Big Bang Theory | The Masked Dancer | ||||||||||||
Late winter | The Masked Singer | Call Me Kat | style=background:#C0C0C0 | The Goldbergs | The Big Bang Theory | ||||||||||||
Spring | The Conners | Home Economics | |||||||||||||||
Late spring | MasterChef: Legends | The $100,000 Pyramid | style=background:#C0C0C0 colspan=2 | Ellen's Game of Games | |||||||||||||
Summer | Love Island | ||||||||||||||||
CTV 2 | Fall | style=background:#C0C0C0 rowspan="2" | The Big Bang Theory | style=background:#f08080 rowspan="2" | Etalk | Encore programming | |||||||||||
Spring | Kung Fu | Encore programming | |||||||||||||||
Global | Fall | ET | style=background:#f08080 rowspan=4 | ET Canada | Big Brother | I Can See Your Voice | style=background:#6699CC colspan=2 | 48 Hours: Suspicion | |||||||||
Mid-fall | style=background:#C0C0C0 colspan=2 | Private Eyes | S.W.A.T. | ||||||||||||||
Winter | Prodigal Son | SEAL Team | |||||||||||||||
Mid-winter | Tough as Nails | ||||||||||||||||
Spring | style=background:#f08080 colspan=2 | Big Brother Canada | Kids Say the Darndest Things | ||||||||||||||
Summer | ET | style=background:#f08080 | ET Canada | Big Brother | Family Game Fight! | style=background:#C0C0C0 colspan="2" | S.W.A.T. | ||||||||||
style=width:10% colspan=2 | Network | style=width:11.5% | 7:00 p.m. | style=width:11.5% | 7:30 p.m. | style=width:11.5% | 8:00 p.m. | style=width:11.5% | 8:30 p.m. | style=width:11.5% | 9:00 p.m. | style=width:11.5% | 9:30 p.m. | style=width:11.5% | 10:00 p.m. | style=width:11.5% | 10:30 p.m. |
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CBC | Fall | Coronation Street | style=background:#f08080 rowspan=2 | Family Feud Canada | style=background:#f08080 colspan=2 | Battle of the Blades | style=background:#f08080 colspan=2 | Dragon's Den | style=background:#f08080 colspan=2 rowspan=2 | The National | |||||||
Winter | style=background:#f08080 colspan=2 | Burden of Truth | style=background:#f08080 colspan=2 | The Fifth Estate | |||||||||||||
Citytv | Fall | style=background:#abbfff colspan="2" rowspan="2" | Local programming | Celebrity Family Feud | Press Your Luck | Mom | |||||||||||
Mid-fall | Encore programming | ||||||||||||||||
Winter | style=background:#abbfff | Local programming | Mr. Mayor | Hell's Kitchen: Las Vegas | Mom | style=background:#C0C0C0 rowspan="2" | Mom | Mom | |||||||||
Spring | Manifest | ||||||||||||||||
Summer | Beat Shazam | Brooklyn Nine-Nine | style=background:#C0C0C0 colspan="2" | style=background:#C0C0C0 colspan="2" | Mom | ||||||||||||
CTV | Fall | style=background:#f08080 | Etalk | style=background:#C0C0C0 | The Big Bang Theory | Encore programming | Match Game | ||||||||||
Mid-fall | Station 19 | Young Sheldon | B Positive | Grey's Anatomy | |||||||||||||
Winter | style=background:#f08080 | Etalk | style=background:#C0C0C0 | The Big Bang Theory | Call Me Kat | style=background:#C0C0C0 | The Big Bang Theory | ||||||||||
Late winter | Station 19 | Grey's Anatomy | |||||||||||||||
Spring | style=background:#f08080 rowspan=3 | Etalk | Young Sheldon | Station 19 | Rebel | ||||||||||||
Summer | style=background:#C0C0C0 rowspan=2 | The Big Bang Theory | Holey Moley | Making It | Love Island | ||||||||||||
Mid-summer | style=background:#C0C0C0 colspan=2 | ||||||||||||||||
CTV 2 | Fall | The Big Bang Theory | style=background:lightgreen colspan="7" | Thursday Night Football | |||||||||||||
Spring | style=background:#f08080 | Etalk | Encore programming | ||||||||||||||
Global | Fall | ET | style=background:#f08080 rowspan=5 | ET Canada | Big Brother | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Connecting | style=background:#f08080 colspan=2 | Departure | ||||||||
Winter | Call Your Mother | Superstore | The Neighborhood | The Unicorn | style=background:#f08080 colspan=2 | Private Eyes | |||||||||||
Mid-winter | Clarice | ||||||||||||||||
Spring | The Neighborhood | United States of Al | style=background:#f08080 colspan=2 | Big Brother Canada | |||||||||||||
Summer | Big Brother | style=background:#f08080 colspan=2 | Private Eyes | style=background:#C0C0C0 colspan=2 | Bull | ||||||||||||
style=width:10% colspan=2 | Network | style=width:11.5% | 7:00 p.m. | style=width:11.5% | 7:30 p.m. | style=width:11.5% | 8:00 p.m. | style=width:11.5% | 8:30 p.m. | style=width:11.5% | 9:00 p.m. | style=width:11.5% | 9:30 p.m. | style=width:11.5% | 10:00 p.m. | style=width:11.5% | 10:30 p.m. |
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CBC | Fall | Coronation Street | style=background:#f08080 rowspan=2 rowspan=4 | Marketplace | style=background:#f08080 rowspan=2 | You Can't Ask That | style=background:#f08080 colspan=2 | Landscape Artist of the Year Canada | style=background:#f08080 colspan=2 rowspan=4 | The National | |||||||
Mid-fall | style=background:#f08080 colspan=2 rowspan=3 | The Nature of Things | |||||||||||||||
Winter | style=background:#f08080 | Anyone's Game | |||||||||||||||
Mid-winter | style=background:#f08080 | Arctic Vets | |||||||||||||||
Citytv | Fall | style=background:#abbfff colspan=2 rowspan=2 | Local programming | style=background:#bf8fef colspan=4 | Fall in Love Fridays | Mom | |||||||||||
Winter | Encore programming | style=background:#C0C0C0 colspan=2 | |||||||||||||||
CTV | Fall/Winter/Spring | style=background:#f08080 rowspan="2" | Etalk | style=background:#C0C0C0 rowspan="2" | The Big Bang Theory | Shark Tank | Magnum P.I. | Blue Bloods | |||||||||
Summer | Superman & Lois | Love Island | Encore programming | ||||||||||||||
CTV 2 | style=background:#C0C0C0 | The Big Bang Theory | style=background:#f08080 | Etalk | style=background:#bf8fef colspan=4 | CTV Movie | Corner Gas | ||||||||||
Global | Fall | ET | style=background:#f08080 rowspan=2 | ET Canada | The Greatest#AtHome Videos | Undercover Boss | style=background:#C0C0C0 colspan=2 rowspan=2 | Border Security: America's Front Line | |||||||||
Mid-fall / winter | The Blacklist | MacGyver |
style=width:10% colspan=2 | Network | style=width:11.5% | 7:00 p.m. | style=width:11.5%" | 7:30 p.m. | style=width:11.5% | 8:00 p.m. | style=width:11.5% | 8:30 p.m. | style=width:11.5% | 9:00 p.m. | style=width:11.5% | 9:30 p.m. | style=width:11.5% | 10:00 p.m. | style=width:11.5% | 10:30 p.m. |
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CBC | Fall | style=background:#f08080 colspan=2 | Short Film Face Off | Encore programming | style=background:#bf8fef colspan=4 rowspan=2 | Movie Night in Canada | |||||||||||
Mid-fall | style=background:#f08080 colspan=2 | Absolutely Canadian | |||||||||||||||
Winter | style=background:lightgreen colspan=6 | Hockey Night in Canada | style=background:lightgreen colspan=2 | Hockey Night in Canada | |||||||||||||
Citytv | Fall | style=background:#C0C0C0 colspan=8 | Encore programming | ||||||||||||||
Winter | style=background:lightgreen colspan=6 | Hockey Night in Canada | style=background:#C0C0C0 colspan=2 | Encore programming | |||||||||||||
Summer | style=background:#C0C0C0 colspan=2 | Encore programming | Bachelor in Paradise | style=background:#C0C0C0 colspan=2 | Encore programming | ||||||||||||
CTV | Fall | W5 | American Housewife | style=background:#C0C0C0 | style=background:#bf8fef colspan="4" | CTV Movie | |||||||||||
Spring | style=background:#bf8fef colspan="4" | CTV Movie | Encore programming | ||||||||||||||
Global | style=background:#C0C0C0 colspan=2 | Border Security: America's Front Line | style=background:#C0C0C0 colspan=2 | Encore programming | style=background:#6699CC colspan=2 | style=background:#6699CC colspan=2 | 48 Hours |
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Week of | Title | Network | Viewers (millions) | ||
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August 31 | CTV News at Six | CTV | 1.52 | [32] | |
September 7 | 2020 NBA playoffs Eastern Conference Semifinals Toronto Raptors games | TSN | 1.96 | [33] | |
September 14 | 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards | CTV | 1.66 | [34] | |
September 21 | The Masked Singer | 1.73 | [35] | ||
September 28 | 2.08 | [36] | |||
October 5 | 1.87 | [37] | |||
October 12 | 2.08 | [38] | |||
October 19 | The Amazing Race | 1.50 | [39] | ||
October 26 | The Masked Singer | 1.86 | [40] | ||
November 2 | The Good Doctor | 2.42 | [41] | ||
November 9 | 2.53 | [42] | |||
November 16 | Grey's Anatomy | 2.19 | [43] | ||
November 23 | The Good Doctor | 2.27 | [44] | ||
November 30 | 2.28 | [45] | |||
December 7 | NCIS | Global | 2.03 | [46] | |
December 14 | Grey's Anatomy | CTV | 2.03 | [47] | |
December 21 | 2021 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships Canada preliminary round games | TSN | 1.96 | [48] | |
December 28 | 2021 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships Canada quarterfinals game | 2.86 | [49] | ||
January 4 | 2021 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships Canada semifinals & final games | 3.05 | [50] | ||
January 11 | Wednesday Night Hockey | Sportsnet | 2.13 | [51] | |
January 18 | The Good Doctor | CTV | 2.31 | [52] | |
January 25 | 2.26 | [53] | |||
February 1 | Super Bowl LV | 7.77 | [54] | ||
February 8 | The Rookie | 2.05 | [55] | ||
February 15 | The Good Doctor | 2.18 | [56] | ||
February 22 | 2.17 | [57] | |||
March 1 | Oprah with Meghan and Harry | Global | 3.21 | [58] | |
March 8 | The Good Doctor | CTV | 2.42 | [59] | |
March 15 | Grey's Anatomy | 1.99 | [60] | ||
March 22 | The Good Doctor | 2.20 | [61] | ||
March 29 | 2.14 | [62] | |||
April 5 | Station 19 | 1.89 | [63] | ||
April 12 | The Rookie | 2.12 | [64] | ||
April 19 | 93rd Academy Awards | 2.26 | [65] | ||
April 26 | The Rookie | 2.16 | [66] | ||
May 3 | NCIS | Global | 1.83 | [67] | |
May 10 | 9-1-1 | 2.08 | [68] | ||
May 17 | The Good Doctor | CTV | 2.03 | [69] | |
May 24 | 1.91 | [70] | |||
May 31 | 2021 Stanley Cup playoffs Toronto Maple Leafs vs. Montreal Canadiens (game 7) | CBC | 2.49 | [71] | |
June 7 | The Good Doctor | CTV | 2.04 | [72] | |
June 14 | CTV News at Six | 1.46 | [73] | ||
June 21 | 1.45 | [74] | |||
June 28 | 2021 Stanley Cup Finals (games 1–3) | CBC | 1.81 | [75] | |
July 5 | UEFA Euro 2020 Final | TSN | 2.38 | [76] | |
July 12 | CTV News at Six | CTV | 1.40 | [77] | |
July 19 | America's Got Talent | Citytv | 1.40 | [78] | |
July 26 | Olympic Games Primetime | CBC | 1.39 | [79] | |
August 2 | CTV News at Six | CTV | 1.28 | [80] | |
August 9 | 1.34 | [81] | |||
August 16 | 1.33 | [82] | |||
August 23 | Private Eyes | Global | 1.36 | [83] |
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