The 1st Gemini Awards were held in Toronto

Toronto

Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

 on 4 December 1986 to honour achievements in Canadian television

Television in Canada

Television in Canada officially began with the opening of the nation's first television stations in Montreal and Toronto in 1952. As with most media in Canada, the television industry, and the television programming available in that country, are strongly influenced by the American media, perhaps...

. Gémeaux Award

Gémeaux Award

The Prix Gémeaux or Gémeaux Awards honour French Canadian achievements in Canadian television. It has been sponsored by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television since 1985. In 2005 the Prix Gémeaux celebrated its 20th anniversary. Its English-language counterpart is the Gemini Awards.-External...

, the French version of the Gemini Awards were held for the first time this year as well. The 1985 television miniseries Anne of Green Gables

Anne of Green Gables (1985 film)

Anne of Green Gables is a 1985 television movie based on the novel of the same name by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery. The film was produced and directed by Kevin Sullivan for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It was released theatrically in Israel, Europe and Japan.The film aired on...

 was the most prominent winner.

English-language television coverage of the ceremonies was originally scheduled for broadcast on CBC Television

CBC Television

CBC Television is a Canadian television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster.Although the CBC is supported by public funding, the television network supplements this funding with commercial advertising revenue, in contrast to CBC Radio which are...

, but labour disruptions at that network forced the telecast to move to a syndicated arrangement of private television stations including Toronto's Citytv

CITY-TV

CITY-DT, Channel 57 , is a television station based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada owned and operated by Rogers Media...

. Unused cable channels in Montreal carried the broadcast in that city. The inaugural Genie Awards were hosted by Second City Television

Second City Television

Second City Television is a Canadian television sketch comedy show offshoot from Toronto's The Second City troupe that ran between 1976 and 1984.- Premise :...

 performers Eugene Levy

Eugene Levy

Eugene Levy, CM is a Canadian actor, comedian, television director, producer, musician, and writer. He is known for his work in Canadian television series, American movies, and television movies. He is the only actor to have appeared in all eight of the American Pie films, as Noah Levenstein...

, Andrea Martin

Andrea Martin

Andrea Louise Martin is an American and Canadian actress and comedienne. She has appeared in films such as My Big Fat Greek Wedding, on stage in productions such as My Favorite Year, Fiddler on the Roof and Candide, and in the television series, SCTV.-Personal life:Martin, the oldest of three...

 and Dave Thomas

Dave Thomas (actor)

David "Dave" Thomas is a Canadian comedian and actor. He was born in St. Catharines, Ontario, but moved to Durham, North Carolina where his father, John E. Thomas, attended Duke University and earned a PhD in Philosophy. Thomas attended George Watts and Moorehead elementary schools...

 from the Metro Toronto Convention Centre

Metro Toronto Convention Centre

Metro Toronto Convention Centre , located in Downtown Toronto, Ontario at 255 Front Street West, has of space. The convention centre was completed in October 1984 and is home to the 1330-seat John Bassett Theatre...

.

Best Comedy Program or Series

• Seeing Things
• The Frantics
• Hangin' In
  Hangin' In
  Hangin' In is a Canadian television sitcom which aired on CBC from 1981 to 1987. It also aired briefly in syndication in the United States. Canadian producer Jack Humphrey developed Hangin' In and served as executive producer for the show.-Synopsis:...
  
  

Best Dramatic Mini Series

• Anne of Green Gables
  Anne of Green Gables
  Anne of Green Gables is a bestselling novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery published in 1908. Set in 1878, it was written as fiction for readers of all ages, but in recent decades has been considered a children's book...
  
  
• Red Serge
  Red Serge
  The Red Serge refers to the jacket of the dress uniform of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. It consists of a scarlet British-style military pattern tunic, complete with a high-neck collar....
  
  
• Spearfield's Daughter

Best Information Program or Series

• The Fifth Estate
  The fifth estate
  the fifth estate is a Canadian television newsmagazine, which airs on the English language CBC Television network. The name is a play on the fact that the media are sometimes referred to as the Fourth Estate, and was chosen to highlight the program's determination to go beyond everyday news into...
  
  
• Canada AM
  Canada AM
  Canada AM is a Canadian breakfast television news show, which has aired on the CTV Television Network since 1972. It is currently hosted by Beverly Thomson and Seamus O'Regan, with Marci Ien reporting from the headline news desk and Jeff Hutcheson presenting the weather forecast and sports...
  
  
• The Journal
• Live It Up!
• Peter Ustinov's Russia

Best Children's Series

• Fraggle Rock
  Fraggle Rock
  Fraggle Rock is a children's live action puppet television program series created by Jim Henson. The central characters were a set of "Muppet" creatures called Fraggles. The show ran from January 10, 1983, to March 30, 1987, on CBC Television in Canada, ITV in the UK, HBO in the United States,...
  
  
• OWL/TV
  OWL/TV
  OWL/TV is a children's educational television series that aired on the CBC, and then later on CTV, from 1985 to 1994. Its focus is nature and science discovery, emphasizing to viewers how they can have an impact on their own environment. PBS, BBC, ITV and Showtime also aired the show for a brief...
  
  
• Today's Special
  Today's Special
  Today's Special is a Canadian children's television show produced by Clive VanderBurgh at TVOntario from 1982 to 1987. It also ran on Nickelodeon and the Faith and Values Channel as well as many PBS stations throughout the United States. It was set in a department store, based on the flagship...
  
  
• Wonderstruck
  Wonderstruck
  Wonderstruck is a Canadian educational television series which taught science to children, that aired on the CBC between 1986 and 1992. It was hosted by Bob McDonald. Every episode began with McDonald saying I'm curious about things. Why they are the way they are, and why they're not something...
  
  

Best Writing in a Dramatic Program

• Donald Brittain
  Donald Brittain
  Donald Brittain, O.C. was a film director and producer with the National Film Board of Canada.Fields of Sacrifice is considered Brittain's first major film as director....
  
   and Richard Nielsen, Canada's Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. Banks
  Canada's Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. Banks
  Canada's Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. Banks is a Canadian docudrama, written and produced by Donald Brittain. It aired in 1985 on CBC Television....
  
  
• Tim Dunphy and Peter Mohan, Night Heat
  Night Heat
  Night Heat is a Canadian police drama series, which aired on CTV from 1985 to 1991. The show also aired on CBS in the United States from 1987 to 1993 and was the first Canadian-produced drama series to air on an American network...
  
  
• Yan Moore
  Yan Moore
  Yan Moore is best known as a writer for Degrassi Junior High, Degrassi High and Degrassi:The Next Generation. He was also the creator and producer of Riverdale. He was nominated for a Gemini award in 1995 for Best Writer in a Dramatic Series in recognition of Road to Avonlea.-External links:...
  
  , The Kids of Degrassi Street
  The Kids of Degrassi Street
  The Kids of Degrassi Street is a Canadian children's TV show which aired from 1979 to 1986, and is the first in the Degrassi series, aboutthe lives of a group of children living on Degrassi Street in Toronto, Canada...
  
   (episode "Griff Gets a Hand")
• Judith Thompson
  Judith Thompson
  Judith Clare Thompson, OC is a Canadian playwright who lives in Toronto, Ontario. Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail once declared that "...in this country, a playwright as good as Judith Thompson is a miracle." She has twice been awarded the Governor General's Award for drama, and is the...
  
  , Turning to Stone
• Pete White, Striker's Mountain
  Striker's Mountain
  Strikers Mountain is a 1987 Canadian action drama film starring Leslie Nielsen, August Schellenberg, and Mimi Kuzyk. It was nominated for two Gemini Awards, the biggest part of the film was filmed near Jasper and Alberta.-Plot:...
  
  

Best Writing in a Comedy or Variety Program or Series

• Seeing Things
• The Bestest Present
  For Better or For Worse
  For Better or For Worse is a comic strip by Lynn Johnston that ran for 30 years, chronicling the lives of a Canadian family, The Pattersons, and their friends. The story is set in the fictitious Toronto-area suburban town of Milborough, Ontario. Johnston's strip began in September 1979, and ended...
  
  
• The Canadian Conspiracy
  The Canadian Conspiracy
  The Canadian Conspiracy is a 1985 HBO/CBC mockumentary, co-written and directed by Robert Boyd, about the way the Canadian government is subverting the United States by taking over its entertainment industry...
  
  
• Toller Cranston's True Gift of Christmas

Best Direction in a Dramatic Series

• Donald Brittain
  Donald Brittain
  Donald Brittain, O.C. was a film director and producer with the National Film Board of Canada.Fields of Sacrifice is considered Brittain's first major film as director....
  
  , Canada's Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. Banks
  Canada's Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. Banks
  Canada's Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. Banks is a Canadian docudrama, written and produced by Donald Brittain. It aired in 1985 on CBC Television....
  
  
• Mario Azzopardi
  Mario Azzopardi
  Mario Philip Azzopardi , is a television and film director and writer.He has worked on such shows as The Outer Limits, Stargate SG-1 , and Stargate Atlantis...
  
  , Night Heat
  Night Heat
  Night Heat is a Canadian police drama series, which aired on CTV from 1985 to 1991. The show also aired on CBS in the United States from 1987 to 1993 and was the first Canadian-produced drama series to air on an American network...
  
  
• Allan Kroeker
  Allan Kroeker
  Allan Kroeker is a Canadian film and television director, cinematographer, screenwriter, film editor and film producer. He has the distinction of directing the series finales for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise...
  
  , Tramp at the Door
• Kevin Sullivan
  Kevin Sullivan (producer)
  Kevin Roderick Sullivan is a Canadian producer and director of film and television programs.Kevin Sullivan began his filmmaking career at an early age of 24. His first foray into filmmaking was with a half-hour Hans Christian Andersen Christmas special titled The Fir Tree in which he edited and...
  
  , Anne of Green Gables
  Anne of Green Gables
  Anne of Green Gables is a bestselling novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery published in 1908. Set in 1878, it was written as fiction for readers of all ages, but in recent decades has been considered a children's book...
  
  
• Marc Voizard, Blue Line

Best Direction in a Comedy Program or Series

• The Canadian Conspiracy
  The Canadian Conspiracy
  The Canadian Conspiracy is a 1985 HBO/CBC mockumentary, co-written and directed by Robert Boyd, about the way the Canadian government is subverting the United States by taking over its entertainment industry...
  
  
• Floating Over Canada
• Fraggle Rock
  Fraggle Rock
  Fraggle Rock is a children's live action puppet television program series created by Jim Henson. The central characters were a set of "Muppet" creatures called Fraggles. The show ran from January 10, 1983, to March 30, 1987, on CBC Television in Canada, ITV in the UK, HBO in the United States,...
  
   ("The Perfect Blue Rollie")
• The S and M Comic Book
  The S and M Comic Book
  The S and M Comic Book was a Canadian series of four sketch comedy specials, that aired on CBC Television in 1985 and 1986. Starring Greg Malone and Tommy Sexton, the series evolved out of the pair's touring show Two Foolish to Talk About....
  
  
• Toller Cranston's True Gift of Christmas

Best Performance by a Lead Actor in a Continuing Role in a Comedy Series

• Louis Del Grande
  Louis Del Grande
  Louis Del Grande is a Canadian television writer and actor. He is best known for starring in the Canadian mystery/comedy series Seeing Things....
  
  , Seeing Things
• Don Adams
  Don Adams
  Don Adams was an American actor, comedian and director. In his five decades on television, he was best known as Maxwell Smart in the television situation comedy Get Smart , which he also sometimes directed and wrote. Adams won three consecutive Emmy Awards for his portrayal of Smart...
  
  , Check it Out
• David Eisner, Hangin' In
  Hangin' In
  Hangin' In is a Canadian television sitcom which aired on CBC from 1981 to 1987. It also aired briefly in syndication in the United States. Canadian producer Jack Humphrey developed Hangin' In and served as executive producer for the show.-Synopsis:...
  
  

Best Performance by a Lead Actor in a Continuing Dramatic Series

• Robert Clothier
  Robert Clothier
  Robert Allan Clothier was a prominent Canadian stage and television actor most famous for his role on the long-running CBC television show, The Beachcombers...
  
  , The Beachcombers
  The Beachcombers
  The Beachcombers is a Canadian comedy-drama television series that ran from October 1, 1972 to December 12, 1990 and is the longest-running dramatic series ever made for English-language Canadian television...
  
  
• Scott Hylands
  Scott Hylands
  Scott Hylands is a Canadian actor who has appeared in movies, television, and on the stage. He is probably best known for his role of Detective Kevin "O.B." O'Brien on the television series Night Heat, played from 1985 to 1989...
  
  , Night Heat
  Night Heat
  Night Heat is a Canadian police drama series, which aired on CTV from 1985 to 1991. The show also aired on CBS in the United States from 1987 to 1993 and was the first Canadian-produced drama series to air on an American network...
  
  
• Malcolm Stoddard
  Malcolm Stoddard
  Malcolm Stoddard is a British actor who has appeared on television.His credits include: The Voyage of Charles Darwin, Colditz, The Brothers, The New Avengers, Blake's 7, Squadron, By the Sword Divided, Juliet Bravo, Boon, The Bill, Families, Emmerdale, The Campbells, Heartbeat and The...
  
  , The Campbells
  The Campbells
  The Campbells was a Scottish-Canadian television drama series, which aired on Scottish Television and CTV from 1986 to 1990. A historical family drama, the series starred Malcolm Stoddard as James Campbell, a Scottish doctor living in 1830s Upper Canada with his three children, Neil , Emma and...
  
  
• Jeff Wincott
  Jeff Wincott
  Jeffrey Howard Piero Wincott is a Canadian actor and athlete.-Personal life:Jeff is the elder brother of actor Michael Wincott....
  
  , Night Heat
  Night Heat
  Night Heat is a Canadian police drama series, which aired on CTV from 1985 to 1991. The show also aired on CBS in the United States from 1987 to 1993 and was the first Canadian-produced drama series to air on an American network...
  
  

Best Performance by a Lead Actor in a Single Dramatic Program or Miniseries

• August Schellenberg
  August Schellenberg
  August Schellenberg is a Canadian actor. His ethnicity is Mohawk and Swiss-German. He was trained at the National Theatre School of Canada.His first film was Rip-Off in 1971. In 1981, he did voices for the animated film Heavy Metal...
  
  , The Prodigal
• Maury Chaykin
  Maury Chaykin
  Maury Alan Chaykin was an American-born Canadian actor. Best known for his portrayal of detective Nero Wolfe, he was also known for his work as a character actor in many films and on television programs.-Personal life:...
  
  , Canada's Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. Banks
  Canada's Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. Banks
  Canada's Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. Banks is a Canadian docudrama, written and produced by Donald Brittain. It aired in 1985 on CBC Television....
  
  
• Jeff Fahey
  Jeff Fahey
  Jeffrey David "Jeff" Fahey is an American film and television actor. He has portrayed Captain Frank Lapidus on the ABC series Lost and the title role of Deputy Marshal Winston MacBride on The Marshal.-Early life:...
  
  , The Execution of Raymond Graham
• Ed McNamara, The Prodigal
• Ed McNamara, Tramp at the Door

Best Performance by a Lead Actress in a Continuing Role in a Comedy Series

• Martha Gibson
  Martha Gibson
  Martha Gibson is a Canadian actress. She is probably best known for appearing alongside her husband Louis Del Grande in the television series Seeing Things, for which she earned a Gemini Award for Best Performance by a Lead Actress in a Continuing Role in a Comedy Series in 1986.She was nominated...
  
  , Seeing Things
• Lally Cadeau
  Lally Cadeau
  Lally Cadeau is a Canadian actress. An accomplished stage and television actress, she has been a mainstay with the Stratford Festival since 1998. She is best known for her role as Janet King in the CBC Television series Road to Avonlea...
  
  , Hangin' In
  Hangin' In
  Hangin' In is a Canadian television sitcom which aired on CBC from 1981 to 1987. It also aired briefly in syndication in the United States. Canadian producer Jack Humphrey developed Hangin' In and served as executive producer for the show.-Synopsis:...
  
  
• Janet-Laine Green
  Janet-Laine Green
  Janet-Laine Green) is a Canadian actress, director, producer and teacher, active for over 25 years. Best known for her roles in She's the Mayor, Seeing Things and This is Wonderland, this Toronto-based film and television personality has also been a voice actor for animated series such as Jacob...
  
  , Seeing Things

Best Performance by a Lead Actress in a Continuing Dramatic Series

• Marnie McPhail, The Edison Twins
  The Edison Twins
  The Edison Twins is a Canadian children's television program which aired on CBC Television from 1983 to 1986. The Disney Channel also picked up the rights in the mid-1980s...
  
  
• Jennifer Dale
  Jennifer Dale
  Jennifer Dale, née Ciurluini , is a Canadian television, dancer, and actress.- Early life :She is the sister of Canadian actress Cynthia Dale...
  
  , Night Heat
  Night Heat
  Night Heat is a Canadian police drama series, which aired on CTV from 1985 to 1991. The show also aired on CBS in the United States from 1987 to 1993 and was the first Canadian-produced drama series to air on an American network...
  
  
• Susan Walden
  Susan Walden
  Susan Walden is a film and television actress. She started her career on The Young and the Restless in the early 1970s, and is best known for her role as J.L. Duval on the hit Canadian TV Show Danger Bay...
  
  , Danger Bay
  Danger Bay
  Danger Bay is a Canadian television series, produced in Vancouver, with first-run episodes broadcast on CBC Television starting October 18, 1984 and the Disney Channel starting October 7, 1985...
  
  

Best Performance by a Lead Actress in a Single Dramatic Program or Miniseries

• Megan Follows
  Megan Follows
  Megan Elizabeth Laura Diana Follows is a Canadian/American actress. She is most known to international audiences for her role as Anne Shirley in the acclaimed 1985 Canadian television miniseries Anne of Green Gables and its two sequels.-Biography:Follows was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada as the...
  
  , Anne of Green Gables
  Anne of Green Gables (1985 film)
  Anne of Green Gables is a 1985 television movie based on the novel of the same name by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery. The film was produced and directed by Kevin Sullivan for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It was released theatrically in Israel, Europe and Japan.The film aired on...
  
  
• Kim Braden
  Kim Braden
  Kim Braden is an English actor.Braden is the daughter of the actor and broadcaster Bernard Braden and the actor Barbara Kelly. She is married to the director David Carson with a son Matthew and a daughter Mimi...
  
  , Spearfield's Daughter
• Nicky Guadagni
  Nicky Guadagni
  Nicky Guadagni is a Canadian actress who has worked on stage, radio, film and television.-Career:Originally from Montreal, Nicky Guadagni majored in drama at Dawson College and went on to train at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Her first role after graduation was playing Miranda, with...
  
  , Turning to Stone
• Elizabeth Shepherd
  Elizabeth Shepherd
  Elizabeth Shepherd is an English character actress whose work has spanned the stage and both the big and small screens. Her surname has been alternately billed as "Shephard" and "Sheppard"....
  
  , The Cuckoo Bird

Best Performance by a Supporting Actor

• Richard Farnsworth
  Richard Farnsworth
  Richard W. Farnsworth was an American actor and stuntman. His film career began in 1937; however, he achieved his greatest success for his performances in The Grey Fox and The Straight Story , for which he received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actor.- Early life :Farnsworth was born...
  
  , Anne of Green Gables
  Anne of Green Gables (1985 film)
  Anne of Green Gables is a 1985 television movie based on the novel of the same name by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery. The film was produced and directed by Kevin Sullivan for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It was released theatrically in Israel, Europe and Japan.The film aired on...
  
  
• Bernard Behrens, Turning to Stone
• Thomas Peacocke
  Thomas Peacocke
  Thomas Peacocke is a Canadian actor. He won the Genie Award for Best Actor in 1981 for his role in The Hounds of Notre Dame.Peacocke studied acting at the University of Alberta and directing at Carnegie Mellon University, and began teaching drama at the University of Alberta in 1961.His other roles...
  
  , Oakmount High
• Douglas Rain
  Douglas Rain
  Douglas Rain is a Canadian actor and narrator. He is primarily a stage actor, but his best known film role was as the voice of the HAL 9000 computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey and its sequel 2010 ....
  
  , Love & Larceny
• R. H. Thomson
  R. H. Thomson
  Robert Holmes "R. H." Thomson, is a Canadian television, film and stage actor.Thomson was born in Richmond Hill, Ontario. He studied at the University of Toronto, and the National Theatre School. His own play The Lost Boys was staged at the Great Canadian Theatre Company in March 2000 and at...
  
  , Canada's Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. Banks
  Canada's Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. Banks
  Canada's Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. Banks is a Canadian docudrama, written and produced by Donald Brittain. It aired in 1985 on CBC Television....
  
  

Best Performance by a Supporting Actress

• Colleen Dewhurst
  Colleen Dewhurst
  Colleen Rose Dewhurst was a Canadian-American actress known for a while as "the Queen of Off-Broadway." In her autobiography, Dewhurst wrote: "I had moved so quickly from one Off-Broadway production to the next that I was known, at one point, as the 'Queen of Off-Broadway'...
  
  , Anne of Green Gables
  Anne of Green Gables (1985 film)
  Anne of Green Gables is a 1985 television movie based on the novel of the same name by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery. The film was produced and directed by Kevin Sullivan for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It was released theatrically in Israel, Europe and Japan.The film aired on...
  
  
• Anne Anglin, Turning to Stone
• Sharry Flett, The Suicide Murders
• Jackie Richardson
  Jackie Richardson
  Jackie Richardson is a Canadian singer and actress.She is known for her screen roles in The Gospel According to the Blues, The Doodlebops, and Sins of the Father....
  
  , Turning to Stone

Best Performance by a Broadcast Journalist

• Eric Malling
  Eric Malling
  Eric Malling was a Canadian television journalist.Born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, he graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a BA degree in English literature then continued his studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario where he graduated from the School of...
  
  , The Fifth Estate
  The fifth estate
  the fifth estate is a Canadian television newsmagazine, which airs on the English language CBC Television network. The name is a play on the fact that the media are sometimes referred to as the Fourth Estate, and was chosen to highlight the program's determination to go beyond everyday news into...
  
  
• Jim Reed, W-FIVE
  W-FIVE
  W5 is a Canadian news magazine television series produced by CTV News. The program is currently initially broadcast Saturday nights at 7 p.m...
  
  
• Joe Schlesinger
  Joe Schlesinger
  Joe Schlesinger is a veteran Canadian journalist who for four decades has reported for CBC Television News from every corner of the world. Born in Vienna in 1928, Schlesinger was raised in Czechoslovakia. In 1939, after Hitler dismembered the country, Joe's parents sent him for safety to England...
  
  , The National

Best Performance by a Host or Interviewer

• David Suzuki
  David Suzuki
  David Suzuki, CC, OBC is a Canadian academic, science broadcaster and environmental activist. Suzuki earned a Ph.D in zoology from the University of Chicago in 1961, and was a professor in the genetics department of the University of British Columbia from 1963 until his retirement in 2001...
  
  , The Nature of Things
  The Nature of Things
  The Nature of Things is a Canadian television series of documentary programs. It debuted on the CBC on November 6, 1960. Many of the programs document nature and the effect that humans have on it. The program was one of the first to explore environmental issues, such as clear-cut logging...
  
  
• Linda MacLennan
  Linda MacLennan
  Linda S. MacLennan Rammelt , known professionally as Linda MacLennan, is a former television news anchor and reporter who spent the majority of her career with WBBM-TV in Chicago, Illinois.- Early life and education :...
  
  , Canada AM
  Canada AM
  Canada AM is a Canadian breakfast television news show, which has aired on the CTV Television Network since 1972. It is currently hosted by Beverly Thomson and Seamus O'Regan, with Marci Ien reporting from the headline news desk and Jeff Hutcheson presenting the weather forecast and sports...
  
  
• Bill Paul, Marketplace
  Marketplace (TV series)
  Marketplace is a Canadian television series, broadcast on CBC Television. Launched in 1972, the series is a consumer advocacy newsmagazine, which shows investigative reports on issues such as product testing, health and safety, fraudulent business practices and other news issues of interest to...
  
  
• Valerie Pringle
  Valerie Pringle
  Valerie Pringle, CM is a Canadian television host and journalist.Pringle began her career in broadcasting as a summer student with Toronto radio station CFRB in 1973, and became a fulltime reporter for the station the following year...
  
  , Midday
  Midday (CBC)
  Midday was a television newsmagazine series on CBC Television, which ran from January 1985 to 2000, replacing local noon-hour newscasts on CBC stations. The show, which aired from noon to 1 p.m...
  
  
• Peter Ustinov
  Peter Ustinov
  Peter Alexander Ustinov CBE was an English actor, writer and dramatist. He was also renowned as a filmmaker, theatre and opera director, stage designer, author, screenwriter, comedian, humourist, newspaper and magazine columnist, radio broadcaster and television presenter...
  
  , Peter Ustinov's Russia