Best Canadian game show series

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

We asked 100 game show-loving Canadians: Name the only iconic TV show featuring 2 families competing to guess the most popular answers to fun, family-friendly survey questions, with a uniquely Canadian twist? Top answer on the board? Survey says...

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.

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.

How well do you really know your kids? In this game show hosted by Pierre Hébert, three sets of parents try to predict what their 6- to 8-year-old child will do when confronted with a range of unusual situations. The family with the most correct predictions goes on to the final round!

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.

A hilarious game show in which two contestants and a panel of six stars attempt to fill in the "hole" left in a wacky sentence. The contestant who goes to the final game has a chance to walk away with the grand prize if they play in perfect symbiosis with a randomly selected star.

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!

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

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.

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.

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!

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

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!

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

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.

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.

A musical game show opposing two gender-segregated teams of celebrities.

Small Talk is an American game show hosted by comedian Wil Shriner and produced by Reg Grundy Productions that aired on The Family Channel from September 30, 1996 to January 3, 1997. The series aired as part of an original game show block, alongside The New Shop 'Til You Drop, Shopping Spree, Wait 'Til You Have Kids, and The New Family Challenge.

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.

Excitement and pleasure are on the agenda each week since all participants are guaranteed to win a prize. At-home ticket holders also have the chance to win on each show.

For 11 weeks, singles 18 and over will experience a dream luxury life. Three advisers, Elisabetta Fantone, Olivier Primeau and Cary Tauben, will attempt to form the most prominent couple in Quebec, Canada - the XOXO couple.

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

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'.

“Au suivant!” hosted by Stephane Bellavance, is a quiz show about general culture that highlights the competitors’ lively personalities. In this format, there isn’t just one contestant, but a whole line-up - competing for the same goal. They want to join the host on the game dot (on stage). The host asks the first contestant four questions. He or she must answer at least three out of four questions correctly or the next contestant is called up to the dot. Nature, history, music, sports, geography, cinema, science, miscellaneous, it’s all up for grabs. Questions on every imaginable topic are asked and answered in this fast-paced game show. Tons of surprises, twists and turns await!

L’union fait la force is a French language game show airing weekdays on Radio-Canada. It is hosted by Patrice L'Ecuyer.The content of the show are primarily "quizzes" that pertain to words in the French language. The quizzes range from everything from guessing words all the way up to Pictionary-style games.The game consists of two teams, made up of four competitors and supporters behind them. The team represents the organization. The teams compete for points via the abovementioned "quizzes". The team that earns the most points wins a prize of C$1,000.Tuesday and Thursday editions of the show include a special round, La petite école, in which contestants answer questions written by elementary and secondary school students, with each question pertaining to a grade level.

Piment Fort was a popular Quebec humoristic game show hosted by the colorful Normand Brathwaite which aired on TVA from 1993 to 2001. Piment Fort means "hot pepper" in French.

Players vie for the chance to answer a series of questions on general culture by undertaking a variety of utterly wacky and extreme challenges! No pressing buzzers in this game, instead, players will need to be much bolder to be able to give their answers as quickly as possible; they may have to take a cream pie in the face, or crack a dozen eggs over their heads! In Distraction, the question isn’t the challenge.

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.