Best Canadian game show series

Génial! (2010)

Two teams composed of a known personality and a contestant chosen from the public battle to guess the outcomes of astonishing scientific experiments.

For the Love of DILFs (2023)

An epic romance is about to unfold as two groups of singles hunt for love. At the end of this emotional journey, only one couple will be voted most likely to succeed. In the new eight-episode series, Stormy Daniels helps two groups of gay men, "Daddies" and "Himbos," compete to find love and win a $10,000 investment into their relationship.

Big Brother Canada (2013)

A Canadian reality television show in which a group of contestants, known as "house guests", are sequestered in the Big Brother House, under the surveillance of cameras and microphones, for the chance to win a grand prize of $100,000 by being the last remaining house guest. Each week, the house guests vote to evict one of their own until two house guests remain on finale night. The winner is decided by the last seven evicted house guests, known as the Big Brother Jury.

The Traitors Canada (2023)

Follow a group of contestants – including some familiar faces – who live together as they complete a series of challenges with the goal of earning a cash prize. The catch? Some of the contestants are traitors who will attempt to deceive and manipulate their way to the prize instead of sharing it amongst the group. In this psychological adventure will the traitors be unmasked in time?

The Sing-Off (2009)

Featuring the country's best a cappella groups performing popular songs like you've never heard them before. There's no lip-synching, backup bands or safety net. They'll be singing for America's vote, with the winner walking away with the ultimate prize - a Sony Music recording contract and $100,000.

Taskmaster Canada (2022)

In this French-Canadian adaptation, Taskmaster Louis Morissette and his assistant Antoine Vézina test the wits of five comedians through a series of absurd tasks.

100 Geniuses (2019)

A general knowledge quiz show that brings together a group of 100 very smart high-school students. At every stage of the competition, the Geniuses play together, compete against one another, and also help each other out.

Clever Remarks (2024)

The Game Show where we answer some of the world's silliest questions.

Cash Cab (2008)

Canadian English version of the game show where unsuspecting members of the public hail a cab and find they're playing for money - if they can keep answering questions correctly before they reach their destination. Too many incorrect answers and they may just be walking the rest of the way.

Soirée quiz (2024)

Lingo (2002)

Lingo features two teams of two contestants each who attempt to guess five-letter words and use colored balls to place markers on a 5×5 numbered Lingo card, attempting to cover five spaces in a row in a fashion similar to bingo.

Hot Pepper (2016)

Quote-unquote (2018)

Silence, on joue! (2015)

Battle of the Generations (2023)

Battle of the Generations asks not only how well you know your own generation, but how well you know your rivals’ generations – ultimately resolving the question of which generation has what it takes to win it all.

Canada's Smartest Person (2014)

An interactive television series that redefines what it means to be smart. We’ll shatter the myth that to be smart you need to have a high IQ, be a math whiz or trivia buff.Every week four new hopefuls battle it out in front of a live studio audience in six categories of smarts: musical, physical, social, logical, visual and linguistic. In the series finale eight finalists will go head to head to earn the title of Canada's Smartest Person. It's a whole new way of looking at smarts!

Skatoony (2010)

Three young contestants and original animated characters compete in four trivia-based game rounds to win a spectacular prize. Each week Skatoony's cartoon host "Chudd Chudders" and his sidekick "The Earl" attempt to put together another spectacular show, despite all manner of mad happenings and one greedy studio exec Charles La Puck who seems to conspire against them.

Big Brother Canada Side Show (2014)

The Big Brother Canada Side Show, which will air every Thursday, features two of the most memorable houseguests from season one, Peter Brown and Gary Levy.

Chaque seconde compte (2024)

In each episode, four strangers join forces to give unanimous answers to general knowledge questions. The longer the team takes to respond, the lower the cash prize. At the end of each episode, the participants must also divide the accumulated money into three unequal shares, again unanimously. To pocket as much money as possible, players have to be as convincing as they are clever, because every second counts!

La guerre des fans (2023)

Chef in your Ear (2015)

Two of the country’s hottest chefs face off to see who can get a completely clueless cook to create the best restaurant quality dish, in only one hour. The catch? The chefs never step foot in the kitchen. Isolated in their own private booth, each chef watches their clueless cook on a monitor, guiding them step-by-step through an earpiece before the final dish is plated and judged. The winning chef names the losing chef’s punishment - a shift doing the dirtiest and most tedious job in the winner's restaurant. It’s ego against ego and dish against dish in Chef In Your Ear!

Le moment de vérité (2007)

Each week, three teams must train and successfully complete a skill-testing challenge in order to win once-in-a-lifetime dream prizes.

Pressure Cooker (2014)

It's the eternal kitchen dilemma – you’re low on time and ingredients but you need to get dinner on the table. What do you make?This task, impossible for some, is the ultimate challenge for others. On Pressure Cooker, exceptional home cooks from across the country compete against each other with the help of celebrity chefs to create culinary masterpieces worthy of the world's fiercest food critic, Giles Coren. The ingredients used in competition arrive on specially designed, quick-moving conveyor belts that force home cooks to make split-second decisions about what to use before it’s gone. In each episode of this high-stakes competition, presided over by host Anne-Marie Withenshaw, home cooks battle the belt and each other to have their creation named best dish, and to win a chance at being named Canada's Best Home Cook in the season finale showdown.The Pressure is ON.Note: This is not the FYI Network show. This was produced by Jamie Oliver's production company for W Network in Canada.

Canada's Greatest Know-It-All (2012)

Daniel Fathers hosts a new competition show in which ten people compete to show their superiority across a series of physical and mental challenges. They compete both against and with each other to earn points; the person with the lowest number of points at the end of each episode is eliminated.

The Debaters (2011)

Hosted by Steve Patterson, top international headliner and one of Canada's most popular comedic talents, The Debaters is the hit CBC Radio show that features Canadas hottest comedians going toe to toe, in a battle of laughs and logic. Part comedy competition, part quiz show, and part stand-up performance, The Debaters is a clever combination of sharply crafted comedic rants and hilarious ad-libs with the live audience picking the winners.Our cast of all-star debaters includes Trevor Boris, Debra DiGiovanni, Sean Cullen, Elvira Kurt, Patrick McKenna, Graham Clark, Erica Sigurdson, Charlie Demers, John Wing, Teresa Pavlinek and many many more.

Family Feud (QC) (2009)

Jackpot (1974)

Jackpot! is a television game show seen in three different runs between 1974 and 1990. Geoff Edwards hosted the original version of this Bob Stewart production from January 7, 1974 until September 26, 1975 on NBC. A second version, produced in Canada, aired from September 30, 1985 to December 30, 1988 on the USA Network in the U.S. and was hosted by Mike Darrow. A third version, again hosted by Edwards, ran from September 18, 1989 to March 16, 1990 in syndication and was filmed in Glendale, California.Elements of Jackpot! were later used in the GSN game show Hollywood Showdown. Its producer, Sande Stewart, became a production partner of his father during the 1980s.

Match Game (2012)

Two competitors have to ‘match’ their answers to fill-in-the-blank questions to those of the six celebrity panelists.

Double Up (1974)

Double Up is a Canadian quiz show television series which aired on CBC Television in 1974.

Skatoony (2006)

Skatoony is a children's live-action game show, pitting live-action kids against cartoons. The show is co-produced with Talent Television, Blink Studios, Marblemedia, Teletoon Productions, and Smiley Guy Studios, and is used to air on Cartoon Network in the UK. It is hosted by 'Chudd Chudders' and 'The Earl'.