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Start the year with CBC's Top 5 for January

It’s the new year. Let’s welcome new faces, new adventures, and lots of new entertainment on CBC.
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It's the new year. Let's welcome new faces, new adventures, and lots of new entertainment on CBC. Everyone's favourite Pham family is back on a new season of Run the Burbs. It's out with the old as they organize a neighborhood yard sale and make the very Canadian trip to the cottage. Join Mark as he starts the exciting and uncertain journey to junior high on the new season of Son of a Critch. On the new series Wild Cards, can this unlikely pairing of cop and con artist beat the odds and be the winning combo? Explore Canada's most haunted places on the new series Ghosting with Luke Hutchie and Matthew Finlan to see if spirits really do exist. Join Amanda Parris on the new point-of-view docu-series For the Culture as she travels to meet with activists and scholars for provocative conversations that centre Blackness and Black folks.
 
A Vietnamese-South Asian-Canadian family, a mom, dad and two kids at a Drive-in theatre with the back of their vehicle open, decked out in lights, with a large box of popcorn and a cooler with them. The mom and dad are sitting in lawnchairs, and the two kids (a boy and a girl) sit in the back of the vehicle. The title RUN THE Burbs is over the photo to the left of the family.
RUN THE BURBS - New Season January 9 Watch Free on CBC Gem
Season Three of Run The Burbs continues the adventures of the Phams, who are balancing new careers, relationships, and a new housemate, with Camille's dad Ramesh moving into the basement.
 
A family from Newfoundland and Labrador sits in a livingroom apparently gathered watching TV during dinner. The mom and dad have a dinner tray in front of them. The grandfather with grey hair has a cup and a teenage son with arms folded on the dinner tray. The youngest teenage son is sitting on the floor with his arms folded over his knees in front of the TV.
SON OF A CRITCH - New Season January 9 Watch Free on CBC Gem
This season Mark anxiously makes his first awkward steps into junior high. He's now in grade nine and should be king of the castle - one year on top before the cycle starts anew in high school where he'll find himself once again at the bottom rung. Until then, grade nine brings the promise of being the Big Man On Campus. But is Mark ready for junior high?
 
A woman with long brown hair in a red dress leans against a man with black hair and beard in a black pants and black suit jacket and t-shirt. She is holding up a police badge. They are standing against a backdrop of a city skyline at night. The words "Wild Cards" are in the centre of the photo. All leaders in black except the "A" in cards.
WILD CARDS - Watch Free January 10 on CBC Gem 
A crime-solving procedural with a comedic twist that follows the unlikely duo of a by-the-book, sardonic cop and a spirited, clever con woman. Cole Ellis is a demoted detective who has begrudgingly spent the last year on the maritime unit, while Max Mitchell has been living a transient life elaborately scamming everyone she meets. But while arrested and being held at the station, Max ends up helping Ellis solve a local crime. The two are offered the opportunity to redeem themselves – Ellis needs to get back to his detective post and Max needs to stay out of jail. The catch? They have to work together, each using their unique skills to solve crimes.
 
Two young men with dark hair in a doorway with flashlights looking into the room. There is a ghost in back of them. The word "GHOSTING" is in purple over the image to the left of the two men.
GHOSTING WITH LUKE HUTCHIE AND MATTHEW FINLAN - Watch Free January 26 on CBC Gem. 
This new unscripted comedy series follows Hutchie and Finlan, two actors known exclusively for their work in the horror genre, as they step off script and into their own real-life thriller on their quest to discover if Canada's most haunted places are truly haunted. Joined by a celebrity special guest each episode, Hutchie and Finlan put their fictional survival skills to the test in the very real world of ghost busting, hoping to reach a final verdict of 'haunted' or 'not'.

A woman with dreadlock braids in a stylish bun on the top of her head sits in a chair. She is wearing a green stylized jacket with the image of a tree in the jacket. The jacket is drawn on the image in yellow lines. The backdrop is bright yellow with strokes of paint in pale blue, brown with green arrows. The words FOR THE CULTURE are in purple capital letters and "with Amanda Parris" in purple under them.
FOR THE CULTURE WITH AMANDA PARRIS - Watch Free January 30 on CBC Gem 
In this point-of-view documentary series, award-winning writer, executive producer and host Amanda Parris leaves the wars raging on social media to create space for urgent and provocative conversations that centre Blackness and Black folks. Travelling to where the stories are, she'll talk with cultural leaders, activists, scholars and everyday people—writer and producer Larry Wilmore, comedian Gina Yashere, the "Robin Hood of Restitution" Mwazulu Diyabanza, and more—about topics such as reparations, Black maternal health, and the business of Black hair. Each episode will make transnational connections and push the conversation beyond the hashtags.

Still looking for more great entertainment? Find it all on CBC Gem and check out our Top 100 songs for 2023 and don't miss out on all your favourite podcasts and playlists, or discover something new, on CBC Listen.


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