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CBC Podcasts: Open Call for Pitches

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Podcast tiles in a collage: Uncover, Personally, Split Screen, Understood
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CBC Podcasts produces premium quality, award-winning content that connects with audiences across Canada and around the world. 

We're open to a variety of production partners — in-house teams, independent producers and production companies, and co-productions with other media.

Our Spring Call for Pitches is now open for the following umbrella feeds. Check out the relevant umbrella for a sense of the range we commission in each.

Deadline: June 30, 2025

  • Uncover - The best in true crime from Escaping NXIVM to Sea of Lies.
  • Personally - Gripping memoirs. Run, Hide, Repeat; Welcome to Paradise
  • Split Screen - Inside the unsettling and captivating world of entertainment and pop culture. 
  • Understood - Know more, now. Four episode seasons on the seismic shifts changing our world in politics, society, technology and culture.

What we're looking for:

  • Ambitious and exciting series that stand out and garner critical acclaim
  • Original stories where you ideally have unique access
  • Universal entry points for a wide range of Canadian and global audiences 
  • Skilled producers who bring creativity and experience making premium quality content
  • Our slate reflects our diverse and contemporary society

Some things to avoid: 

  • Pitches that don't sustain multiple episodes and better suited to one-off documentaries.
  • Pitches that rely on copyrighted music (due to rights issues)
  • Pitches that are topics or ideas versus compelling stories with characters
  • Currently, we are not commissioning talk, interview or chat formats

Please submit your pitch using this Google Form. (We recommend saving your answers first in a separate document before submitting the form.)

Here's what we will ask you in the Google Form:

  • The working title of your podcast including a logline
  • Your elevator pitch or a brief description of the story
  • Episode outline (how the story unfolds and number of episodes) [max 500 words] 
  • What umbrella feed (indicate if it's a standalone series)
  • Your role in the production team
  • Your previous work/resume 
  • Audio samples
  • Video and/or image samples (optional)

Please note: A required action before uploading your pitch will be to agree to the terms and conditions of our Pitch Release Agreement. 

Submit your pitch via Google Form

You should get an automatic email confirming we received your pitch. If we'd like to learn more about your idea, we will be in touch! We'll aim to get back to all those who submitted by the end of August 2025.