CBC Gem: Shows & Live TV

Canada's Home for Streaming

App info

Version :

11.34.0.606

Category :

Entertainment

Update :

July 29, 2025

Installs :

4,119,872

Developer :

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Requires Android :

Android 5.0+

Content Rating :

Teen

Get it on :

Download APK

App description

Android App Analysis and Review: CBC Gem: Shows & Live TV, Developed by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Listed in Entertainment Category. Current Version Is 11.34.0.606, Updated On 29/07/2025 . According to users reviews on Google Play: CBC Gem: Shows & Live TV. Achieved Over 4 million Installs. CBC Gem: Shows & Live TV Currently Has 18 thousand Reviews, Average Rating 4.1 Stars

Start streaming for free with CBC Gem, Canada's Home for Streaming.

Watch the best shows, movies, and now live sports from across Canada and around the world — all for free on CBC Gem. Enjoy hundreds of your favourite episodes on demand, and watch live TV channels, including sports events. CBC Gem is home to hit shows like Schitt’s Creek, Murdoch Mysteries, Wild Cards, and global hits like The Great British Baking Show and Ghosts. Now with even more sports coverage, there’s something for everyone!

CBC Gem features:
• Stream CBC TV Live - access all 14 channels from across the country
• Find new episodes and full seasons
• Explore exclusive TV series from around the world
• Discover acclaimed Canadian feature films and documentaries
• Check out ad-free kids programming
• Closed captioning and described video
• Stream CBC News Explore
• Stream CBC Comedy
• Stream Olympic Channel
• Content is only available to stream within Canada

Sign up for a CBC account to get even more!

CBC Account - FREE

• Stream your local CBC TV channel live - access all 14 channels from across the country
• Watch past seasons of your favourite shows on demand
• Pick up where you left off on any device
• Stream CBC News Explore

CBC Gem Premium

Subscribe to Premium to enjoy additional features and content:

• Watch on-demand episodes ad-free
• Stream CBC News Network live 24/7
• Surround Sound

Try Premium free for one week, then continue your subscription for $5.99/month plus taxes. It’s easy to get started - just download CBC Gem, sign up for a CBC account and start your free trial. Cancel anytime.

We are currently offering version 11.34.0.606. This is our latest, most optimized version. It is suitable for many different devices. Free download directly apk from the Google Play Store or other versions we're hosting. Moreover, you can download without registration and no login required.

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What's New

Bug fixes and performance improvements.

For help, please visit http://cbc.ca/help

Rate and review on Google Play store

4.1

18,240 total

5 72.4

4 6.9

3 0

2 0

1 20.7

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Total number of active users rated for: CBC Gem: Shows & Live TV

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Recent Comments

Ellen Brown

I WANT to use this app, but it's so frustrating it's rarely worth it. When casting, it freezes on ads, or stops streaming when it reaches an ad - you have to watch the ads on your phone and then cast when it gets back to the show to get it working again. It often doesn't remember my place, or if I've even finished an episode - I have to manually select what episode I want to watch every time or it will just replay the last one I watched. Seems to get worse every time they update it.

Craig Oldham

This app used to work very well. Last couple of months it freezes up every time the same 5 commercials play 4 times per 30 minute episode. When commercials start you need to stop casting so it doesn't freeze up, then resume casting once they are over. Have tried uninstalling & reinstall but nothing works. Netflix & Prime work perfect so it's definitely a CBC issue. Very frustrating, garbage app, save yourself the grief...

Merebeth Switzer

After several years it it is still full of all the glitches despite trying all the fixes and updates recommended on line. Casting from android commercials still freeze randomly and ad volumes (when they don't freeze and lock you out) are often much louder than shows. As much as I'd like to support CBC I am about ready to give up.

Steven Mehring

Ads are no longer casting! CBC Gem used to be totally ok for watching archived network tv content. I don't know exactly when this latest painful issue manifested. At ad breaks, casting will stop and in order to resume you must: - stop casting on your device - resume playback and watch ads on your device - resume casting at the end of ad break Took a long time to figure this out after numerous trouble shooting exercises. Feels to me like a ploy to force opportunity to click ads "Learn more".

Paige Roche

update: this is the worst streaming app I've ever used and I'm not being dramatic. I fell asleep during an episode of a show, and tried to go back to the episode, forced to watch 4 ads just to OPEN the episode, then tried to skip to where I j thought I may have fallen asleep, the SAME 4 ADS ALL OVER AGAIN AND AGAIN. this app is not good for casting. if you hit the skip ahead button, it jumps you back to the start, with no option to go back to where you were. you can't skip ahead at all.

Erin Vedell

terrible app, you set it to auto play next episode and it will play about 10 seconds of the episode then skip to the next one, so it completly skips episodes, and when you are watching a series for the first time its confusing and causes spoilers!!! no way to fix it either, cause it does it when you manually select an episode too. 5.99$ for this garbage? fix your app!

Connie Coombs

I use CBC Gem to watch tv shows. There are A LOT of commercials. I cast the shows from my phone to my Samsung Smart tv. At least once a day it freezes and i have to unplug my Google Chromecast and wait for the reboot. Once it reboots, there are a batch of commercials, then i click on my show and watch another batch of commercials. If i didn't enjoy the shows, that i can't watch anywhere else, i would dump this app. I do not recommend. Btw Chromecast works perfectly with other apps.

Adri Ana

I love the content on the Gem app, but the frequent crashes make it frustrating to use. It's incredibly difficult to return to where you left off, and to make matters worse, you have to sit through six ads before realizing you're in the wrong spot. This really affects the overall experience.