DMV, CIA, Office spin-off The Paper lead Corus’s LA Screenings pick-ups
Universal Television’s The Paper for Peacock
Canadian broadcast group Corus Entertainment has unveiled its 2025/26 broadcast and specialty line-up, including workplace comedy DMV, Dick Wolf procedural CIA and The Office spin-off The Paper, plus a slate of originals.
The Paper, produced by Universal Television for Peacock, was among the most buzzworthy titles at this year’s LA Screenings and will air on Corus’s specialty cablenet Showcase and stream on StackTV. Corus has a long-running output deal with NBCUniversal for Peacock originals.
For its broadcast network Global, Corus acquired another well-received LA Screenings show, CBS workplace comedy DMV, starring Harriet Dyer and Tim Meadows, as well as FBI-spin-off CIA, starring Tom Ellis; Fire Country spin-off Sheriff Country; and music competition series The Road. The latter is executive produced by Yellowstone universe creator Taylor Sheridan, Blake Shelton and Keith Urban. All are set to premiere in the fall.
Also returning to Global in the fall are comedy Ghosts, Survivor season 49, Saturday Night Live, 9-1-1, FBI, Matlock, NCIS, NCIS: Origins, Fire Country, Elsbeth, Abbott Elementary, Doc and Murder in a Small Town.
In addition, Yellowstone spin-off Y: Marshals, cooking competition America’s Culinary Cup and true crime docuseries Harlan Coben’s Final Twist will air on Global in midseason alongside Family Law, Watson and Hollywood Squares.
Corus is unveiling the shows to advertisers at its Upfront presentation in Toronto later today.
Other key acquisitions for Showcase include Simu Liu-led espionage thriller The Copenhagen Test; spy drama Ponies, starring Emilia Clarke; Sky Studios drama Amadeus, about the young Mozart; season four of Bel-Air; S2 of Ted; and Ted: The Animated Series.
Acquired titles set to launch on W Network include Peacock thriller All Her Fault, starring Sarah Snook; suburban murder drama The ‘Burbs; holiday docuseries Christmas at Sea; competition series Finding Mr Christmas; S2 of Mistletoe Murders; and the eighth and final season of Outlander.
Corus also revealed the programming for its unscripted-focused channels Flavour Network and Home Network (fka Food Network Canada and HGTV Canada) after its long-running output deal with Warner Bros Discovery ended last year, with rival Rogers Sports & Media having picked up those rights.
New titles acquired for Flavour Network include Corus originals Halloween Bakeshop and Holiday Bakeshop, in addition to returning titles Adam Richman Eats Britain (S2), Kitchen Nightmares (S9), Morimoto’s Sushi Master (S2), Andrew Zimmern’s Wild Game Kitchen (S4) and Top Chef Canada (S12).
Home Network’s line-up features new shows Rentovation, Beer Budget Reno, Life is Messy and Building Baeumler, as well as returners House of Ali (S2) and Rock Solid Builds (S3).
Slice channel, which had until last year held the Canadian linear rights to all Bravo programming, was also forced to overhaul its programming remit last year after RSM gained those rights.
New titles set to air on that channel in the coming year include Tiffany Haddish Goes Off, Below Deck Down Under, Married to Medicine and Southern Hospitality. As part of its new-found focus on true crime, Slice also picked up The Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets, The Idaho Student Murders and Two Sisters: Missing, Murdered, Betrayed.
Pick-ups for Corus-owned The History Channel include WWII with Tom Hanks, Hazardous History with Henry Winkler, History’s Deadliest with Ving Rhames, The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch (S6) and Curse of Oak Island (S13), while Corus’s National Geographic picked up the Ryan Reynolds-narrated wildlife series Underdogs.
Corus kids network Treehouse picked up 60-minute special Thomas & Friends: Sodor Sings Together, Vida the Vet (S2) and Rubble & Crew (S4).
All of the acquired and original shows for Global and Corus’s suite of specialty networks will also stream on StackTV.
