Canada’s public broadcaster has unveiled its kids programming slate for 2025/2026, and it includes a dance-centric live-action series for tweens and a collection of preschool shorts that will be produced in-house. 

Apartment 11 Productions (Interstellar Ella) and Avenida Productions (The Outlaw League) teamed up to co-produce The Unstoppable Jenny Garcia (pictured, eight x 12 minutes), about a 13-year-old hip-hop dancer whose life turns upside down when she’s diagnosed with cancer. This project was adapted from Avenida’s French-language series Jenny, and Canadian author Catherine Hernandez (Scarborough) is behind the scripts. It’s in post-production now and will be delivered later this month to debut in the fall. 

The Unstoppable Jenny Garcia courtesy of Apartment 11. “It deals not only with the physical element, but the emotional side of healing as well, and shows how this illness affects everyone in a family, including the often-overlooked siblings of sick children,” says Mindy Laxer, Apartment 11’s SVP and co-executive producer.

Also new this season is Hey Joojo!, a series of 30 shorts (one to three minutes long) for four- to six-year-olds that will see CBC Kids host Joojo Paintsil, his cousin and puppet Gary the Unicorn learning educational lessons through music and play.

There are a handful of previously announced titles rolling out on CBC Kids this fall, including 2D-animated reboot The Adventures of Toopy & Binoo (39 x seven minutes) from Echo Media and Huminah Huminah Animation; Dino Ranch: Island Explorers (26 x 22 minutes) from Boat Rocker and Industrial Brothers; and Aussie/Canadian co-pro Andrew the Big BIG Unicorn (40 x seven minutes) from Pirate Size Productions, Mainframe Studios and Infinite Studios. This 2D-animated series for preschoolers focuses on a rhino who lives his life as a giant unicorn. 

And finally, CBC has renewed four series for fresh fall seasons: Happy Camper Media’s Mini-Jon and Mini-Maple (36 x four minutes); Verite Films’ Jeremy & Jazzy (22 x two minutes) and Playing with Stu (11 x one minute); and Gazelle Automations’ Go Togo (31 x five minutes).