Best Comedy Program or Series

• Cock'd Gunns
  Cock'd Gunns
  Cock'd Gunns is a Canadian English language mockumentary television series originally produced for IFC and later broadcasting on Showcase. The series documents the members of fictional rock band, Cock'd Gunns, as they try to become the biggest band in the world...
  
  
• Corner Gas
  Corner Gas
  Corner Gas is a Canadian television sitcom created by Brent Butt. The series ran for six seasons from 2004 to 2009. Re-runs still air on CTV and The Comedy Network in Canada; it formerly aired on WGN America in the United States....
  
  
• Kenny vs. Spenny
  Kenny vs. Spenny
  Kenny vs. Spenny is a Canadian comedy reality television series about Kenny Hotz and Spencer Rice, who face each other in various competitions. The loser of the episode must perform an act of humiliation, usually selected by the winner. Hotz and Rice helped create the series, and it was typically...
  
  
• Odd Job Jack
  Odd Job Jack
  Odd Job Jack was a Canadian animated comedy television show featuring Don McKellar, about one man's misadventures in temporary employment. Seen on and produced for the The Comedy Network, a cable specialty channel, and shown on Adult Swim in Latin America, the show is currently finished its...
  
  
• Rent-A-Goalie
  Rent-a-Goalie
  Rent-a-Goalie is a half-hour comedy television series from Canada that aired on Showcase from 2006 - 2008. Its third season premiered 20 October 2008. The first season was nominated for three Gemini Awards, including Best Comedy Series...
  
  
• This Hour Has 22 Minutes
  This Hour Has 22 Minutes
  This Hour Has 22 Minutes is a weekly Canadian television comedy that airs on CBC Television. Launched in 1993 during Canada's 35th general election, the show focuses on Canadian politics, combining news parody, sketch comedy and satirical editorials...
  
  

Best Dramatic Series

Gemini Award for Best Dramatic Series

This page lists the winners and nominees for the Gemini Award for Best Dramatic Series. Winners in each category are in bold.-2nd:* Night Heat* Red Serge* Street Legal-3rd:* Degrassi Junior High* He Shoots, He Scores...

• Durham County
  Durham County (TV series)
  Durham County is a one-hour Canadian dramatic television series produced by Back Alley Film Productions Ltd. and Muse Entertainment Enterprises...
  
  
• Intelligence
  Intelligence (TV series)
  Intelligence is a Vancouver-based television crime drama starring Ian Tracey and Klea Scott that aired on the CBC. With its pilot first airing on November 28, 2005, the series began regular broadcasting on October 10, 2006. CBC reaired the pilot on June 7, 2007 and began broadcasting reruns of...
  
  
• Murdoch Mysteries
  Murdoch Mysteries
  Murdoch Mysteries is a Canadian drama television series that airs on Citytv, featuring Yannick Bisson as William Murdoch, a police detective working in Toronto, Ontario in the 1890s. The television series is based on the Detective Murdoch series of novels by Maureen Jennings. The fifth season was...
  
  
• The Border
  The Border (TV series)
  The Border is a Canadian drama airing on CBC Television and 20 other TV networks worldwide. It was created by Peter Raymont, Lindalee Tracey, Janet MacLean and Jeremy Hole of White Pine Pictures. The Executive in Charge of Production is Janice Dawe. Episodes in the first season were directed by...
  
  
• The Tudors
  The Tudors
  The Tudors is a Canadian produced historical fiction television series filmed in Ireland, created by Michael Hirst and produced for the American premium cable television channel Showtime...
  
  

Best Dramatic Mini Series

• Across the River to Motor City
  Across the River to Motor City
  Across The River To Motor City is a Canadian television drama series, that aired on Citytv stations. It debuted November 22, 2007. The series is about an insurance investigator named Ben Ford who works the border in both Detroit and Windsor...
  
  
• The Englishman's Boy
  The Englishman's Boy
  The Englishman's Boy is a novel by Guy Vanderhaeghe, published in 1996 by McClelland and Stewart. It won the Governor General's Award for English language fiction in 1996, and was a nominee for the Giller Prize...
  
  
• Would Be Kings
  Would Be Kings
  Would Be Kings is a Canadian 4-hour television mini-series directed by David Wellington which aired on CTV on January 27 and January 28, 2008.- Plot :...
  
  

Best Information Program or Series

• CBC News: Sunday
  CBC News: Sunday
  CBC News: Sunday was a weekly television newsmagazine series in Canada, which aired on Sunday mornings on both CBC Newsworld and CBC Television...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  

Best Ensemble Performance in a Comedy Program or Series

• Fabrizio Filippo, David Alpay, Jennifer Baxter, Mike Beaver, Robin Brûlé, Jayne Eastwood, Ennis Esmer, Brandon Firla, Ron Gabriel, Peter Keleghan, Arnold Pinnock, Aron Tager, Billable Hours
  Billable Hours
  Billable Hours is a Canadian comedy series, which airs on Showcase.Set in the fictional Toronto law firm of Fagen & Harrison, the series focuses on three young lawyers struggling to balance their expectations in life with the difficult realities of building a career in law.The series debuted on...
  
  
• John Catucci, David Mesiano, Canadian Comedy Awards 2007: Best of the Fest
• Inessa Annie Frantowski, Brooks Gray, Andy King, Rebecca McMahon, Leo Scherman, Morgan Waters, Cock'd Gunns
  Cock'd Gunns
  Cock'd Gunns is a Canadian English language mockumentary television series originally produced for IFC and later broadcasting on Showcase. The series documents the members of fictional rock band, Cock'd Gunns, as they try to become the biggest band in the world...
  
  
• Christopher Bolton, Stephen Amell, Oliver Becker, Michael Bodnar, Sarain Boylan, Inga Cadranel, Louis Di Bianco, Carlos Diaz, Matt Gordon, Gabriel Hogan, Mayko Nguyen, Pascal Petardi, Joe Pingue, Jeff Pustil, Philip Riccio, Maria Vacratsis, Jeremy Wright, Rent-A-Goalie
  Rent-a-Goalie
  Rent-a-Goalie is a half-hour comedy television series from Canada that aired on Showcase from 2006 - 2008. Its third season premiered 20 October 2008. The first season was nominated for three Gemini Awards, including Best Comedy Series...
  
  
• Mark Critch, Gavin Crawford, Geri Hall, Cathy Jones, This Hour Has 22 Minutes
  This Hour Has 22 Minutes
  This Hour Has 22 Minutes is a weekly Canadian television comedy that airs on CBC Television. Launched in 1993 during Canada's 35th general election, the show focuses on Canadian politics, combining news parody, sketch comedy and satirical editorials...
  
  

Best Direction in a Dramatic Series

• Durham County
  Durham County (TV series)
  Durham County is a one-hour Canadian dramatic television series produced by Back Alley Film Productions Ltd. and Muse Entertainment Enterprises...
  
  
• Intelligence
  Intelligence (TV series)
  Intelligence is a Vancouver-based television crime drama starring Ian Tracey and Klea Scott that aired on the CBC. With its pilot first airing on November 28, 2005, the series began regular broadcasting on October 10, 2006. CBC reaired the pilot on June 7, 2007 and began broadcasting reruns of...
  
  
• ReGenesis
  ReGenesis
  ReGenesis is a Canadian television program produced by The Movie Network and Movie Central in conjunction with Shaftesbury Films. The series, which ran for four seasons, revolves around the scientists of NorBAC , a fictional organization with a lab based in Toronto...
  
  
• The Border
  The Border (TV series)
  The Border is a Canadian drama airing on CBC Television and 20 other TV networks worldwide. It was created by Peter Raymont, Lindalee Tracey, Janet MacLean and Jeremy Hole of White Pine Pictures. The Executive in Charge of Production is Janice Dawe. Episodes in the first season were directed by...
  
  
• The Tudors
  The Tudors
  The Tudors is a Canadian produced historical fiction television series filmed in Ireland, created by Michael Hirst and produced for the American premium cable television channel Showtime...
  
  

Best Writing in a Dramatic Series

• Durham County
  Durham County (TV series)
  Durham County is a one-hour Canadian dramatic television series produced by Back Alley Film Productions Ltd. and Muse Entertainment Enterprises...
  
  
• Murdoch Mysteries
  Murdoch Mysteries
  Murdoch Mysteries is a Canadian drama television series that airs on Citytv, featuring Yannick Bisson as William Murdoch, a police detective working in Toronto, Ontario in the 1890s. The television series is based on the Detective Murdoch series of novels by Maureen Jennings. The fifth season was...
  
  
• ReGenesis
  ReGenesis
  ReGenesis is a Canadian television program produced by The Movie Network and Movie Central in conjunction with Shaftesbury Films. The series, which ran for four seasons, revolves around the scientists of NorBAC , a fictional organization with a lab based in Toronto...
  
  
• Stargate: Atlantis
• The Tudors
  The Tudors
  The Tudors is a Canadian produced historical fiction television series filmed in Ireland, created by Michael Hirst and produced for the American premium cable television channel Showtime...
  
  

Best Direction in a Comedy Program or Series

• Corner Gas
  Corner Gas
  Corner Gas is a Canadian television sitcom created by Brent Butt. The series ran for six seasons from 2004 to 2009. Re-runs still air on CTV and The Comedy Network in Canada; it formerly aired on WGN America in the United States....
  
  
• Little Mosque on the Prairie
  Little Mosque on the Prairie
  Little Mosque on the Prairie is a Canadian sitcom on CBC, created by Zarqa Nawaz and produced by WestWind Pictures. It is filmed in Toronto, Ontario and Indian Head, Saskatchewan...
  
  
• Rent-A-Goalie
  Rent-a-Goalie
  Rent-a-Goalie is a half-hour comedy television series from Canada that aired on Showcase from 2006 - 2008. Its third season premiered 20 October 2008. The first season was nominated for three Gemini Awards, including Best Comedy Series...
  
  
• Rick Mercer Report
  Rick Mercer Report
  Rick Mercer Report is a Canadian television comedy series which airs on CBC Television...
  
  

Best Writing in a Comedy or Variety Program or Series

• Billable Hours
  Billable Hours
  Billable Hours is a Canadian comedy series, which airs on Showcase.Set in the fictional Toronto law firm of Fagen & Harrison, the series focuses on three young lawyers struggling to balance their expectations in life with the difficult realities of building a career in law.The series debuted on...
  
  
• Cock'd Gunns
  Cock'd Gunns
  Cock'd Gunns is a Canadian English language mockumentary television series originally produced for IFC and later broadcasting on Showcase. The series documents the members of fictional rock band, Cock'd Gunns, as they try to become the biggest band in the world...
  
  
• Rent-A-Goalie
  Rent-a-Goalie
  Rent-a-Goalie is a half-hour comedy television series from Canada that aired on Showcase from 2006 - 2008. Its third season premiered 20 October 2008. The first season was nominated for three Gemini Awards, including Best Comedy Series...
  
  
• Rick Mercer Report
  Rick Mercer Report
  Rick Mercer Report is a Canadian television comedy series which airs on CBC Television...
  
  
• This Hour Has 22 Minutes
  This Hour Has 22 Minutes
  This Hour Has 22 Minutes is a weekly Canadian television comedy that airs on CBC Television. Launched in 1993 during Canada's 35th general election, the show focuses on Canadian politics, combining news parody, sketch comedy and satirical editorials...
  
  

Best Music, Variety Program or Series

• Barenaked East Coast Music!
• Canadian Idol
  Canadian Idol
  Canadian Idol is a Canadian reality television competition show which aired on CTV, based on the British show Pop Idol. The show was a competition to find the most talented young singer in Canada, and was hosted by Ben Mulroney. Jon Dore was the "roving reporter" for the first three seasons...
  
  
• East Coast Sessions
• MuchMusic Video Awards
  MuchMusic Video Awards
  The MuchMusic Video Awards are annual awards presented by the Canadian music video channel MuchMusic to honour the year's best music videos....
  
  
• Juno Awards of 2008
  Juno Awards of 2008
  The Juno Awards of 2008 were held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada on the weekend ending 6 April 2008. These ceremonies honoured music industry achievements in Canada in the latter part of 2006 and in most of 2007....
  
  

Best Reality Program or Series

• Canada's Next Top Model
  Canada's Next Top Model
  Canada's Next Top Model is a Canadian reality show in which female contestants compete for the title "Canada's Next Top Model" and a chance to start their career in the modeling industry...
  
  
• Dragons' Den
  Dragons' Den (Canada)
  Dragons' Den is a Canadian television reality show, based on the internationally franchised Dragons' Den format, in which aspiring entrepreneurs pitch business ideas to a panel of venture capitalists in the hopes of securing business financing. The show debuted on October 3, 2006 on CBC Television...
  
  
• Project Runway Canada
  Project Runway Canada
  Project Runway Canada is a Gemini Award-winning Canadian television adaptation of the American reality television series Project Runway, which debuted on the Slice network on October 8, 2007. The second season aired on Global. The series' host is fashion model Iman, while Canadian designer Brian...
  
  
• The Week the Women Went
  The Week the Women Went
  The Week The Women Went was a television show produced by Paperny Films, and based on a BBC Three program of the same title. The show was part documentary, part reality television, that explores what happens when all the women in an ordinary Canadian town disappear for a week and leave the men and...
  
  
• Triple Sensation
  Triple Sensation
  Triple Sensation is a reality television series produced by multi-Tony Award winning producer Garth Drabinsky. Its first season debuted October 7, 2007 on CBC Television, and its second season debuted June 22, 2009....
  
  

Best Newscast

• Global National
  Global National
  Global National is the national newscast of Canada's Global Television Network. Dawna Friesen anchors the program's weekday edition from the Global BC studios; Robin Gill currently anchors the weekend edition...
  
  
• Global News Toronto
• The National

Best Documentary Series

• CBC News: The Lens
• Diamond Road
• The Dark Years
• 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...
  
  
• The View from Here
  The View from Here (TV series)
  The View from Here is a Canadian television series, which airs on TVOntario. Hosted by Ian Brown, the program airs documentary films.The series is a frequent nominee for Best Documentary Series at the Gemini Awards, and won the award in 1999 and 2000....
  
  

Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role

• Hugh Dillon
  Hugh Dillon
  Hugh Dillon is a Canadian musician and actor.-Music career:Dillon was the lead singer for the Kingston hard rock band The Headstones from 1987 until 2003...
  
  , Durham County
  Durham County (TV series)
  Durham County is a one-hour Canadian dramatic television series produced by Back Alley Film Productions Ltd. and Muse Entertainment Enterprises...
  
  
• Justin Louis
  Justin Louis
  Luís Ferreira is a Portuguese-born Canadian actor...
  
  , Durham County
  Durham County (TV series)
  Durham County is a one-hour Canadian dramatic television series produced by Back Alley Film Productions Ltd. and Muse Entertainment Enterprises...
  
  
• James McGowan, The Border
  The Border (TV series)
  The Border is a Canadian drama airing on CBC Television and 20 other TV networks worldwide. It was created by Peter Raymont, Lindalee Tracey, Janet MacLean and Jeremy Hole of White Pine Pictures. The Executive in Charge of Production is Janice Dawe. Episodes in the first season were directed by...
  
  
• Peter Outerbridge
  Peter Outerbridge
  Peter Outerbridge is a Canadian actor, best known for his role as Dr. David Sandstrom in the TMN series ReGenesis, as William in Saw VI and his role as Dan Farmer in Happy Town.-Life and career:...
  
  , ReGenesis
  ReGenesis
  ReGenesis is a Canadian television program produced by The Movie Network and Movie Central in conjunction with Shaftesbury Films. The series, which ran for four seasons, revolves around the scientists of NorBAC , a fictional organization with a lab based in Toronto...
  
  
• Ian Tracey
  Ian Tracey
  Ian Tracey is a Canadian Leo- and Gemini Award-winning actor. Over the years, Tracey has participated in over seventy films and television series. Tracey has starred in series like Da Vinci's Inquest and Intelligence, both CBC television series produced by long-time colleague Chris Haddock...
  
  , Intelligence
  Intelligence (TV series)
  Intelligence is a Vancouver-based television crime drama starring Ian Tracey and Klea Scott that aired on the CBC. With its pilot first airing on November 28, 2005, the series began regular broadcasting on October 10, 2006. CBC reaired the pilot on June 7, 2007 and began broadcasting reruns of...
  
  

Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role

• Kristin Booth, MPV
  MVP (TV series)
  MVP is a 2008 Canadian television series that debuted January 11, 2008 on CBC Television....
  
  
• Natalie Dormer
  Natalie Dormer
  Natalie Dormer is an English actress. She is best known for her roles as Victoria in Casanova and as the ill-fated queen Anne Boleyn in the Showtime series The Tudors.-Early life and current lifestyle:...
  
  , The Tudors
  The Tudors
  The Tudors is a Canadian produced historical fiction television series filmed in Ireland, created by Michael Hirst and produced for the American premium cable television channel Showtime...
  
  
• Helene Joy
  Hélène Joy
  Hélène Joy is an Australian–Canadian television actress. Her credits include roles in the television series MVP, Durham County, The Secret World of Og, An American in Canada, ReGenesis, Pearlie, and Murdoch Mysteries....
  
  , Durham County
  Durham County (TV series)
  Durham County is a one-hour Canadian dramatic television series produced by Back Alley Film Productions Ltd. and Muse Entertainment Enterprises...
  
  
• Jewel Staite
  Jewel Staite
  Jewel Belair Staite is a Canadian actress, who portrayed Catalina in Space Cases, Kaylee Frye in Firefly and Serenity, and Dr. Jennifer Keller on Stargate Atlantis.-Personal life:...
  
  , Stargate: Atlantis
• Camille Sullivan
  Camille Sullivan
  Camille Sullivan is a Canadian actress. She has starred in various films and TV series. Among her notable TV appearances are Da Vinci's Inquest, Intelligence and Shattered. She won a Leo Award for her role in Normal...
  
  , Intelligence
  Intelligence (TV series)
  Intelligence is a Vancouver-based television crime drama starring Ian Tracey and Klea Scott that aired on the CBC. With its pilot first airing on November 28, 2005, the series began regular broadcasting on October 10, 2006. CBC reaired the pilot on June 7, 2007 and began broadcasting reruns of...
  
  

Best Individual Performance in a Comedy Program or Series

• Natalie Brown
  Natalie Brown
  Natalie Brown is a Canadian-born, contemporary R&B, pop and Blue-eyed soul singer-songwriter.She is one of the first artists to successfully launch a music career using the Internet as her primary medium for publicity.-Biography:...
  
  , Sophie
  Sophie (TV series)
  Sophie is a Canadian television sitcom starring Natalie Brown as Sophie Parker, an unmarried single mother and talent agent. The show is an English-language adaptation of Télévision de Radio-Canada's show Les Hauts et les bas de Sophie Paquin...
  
  
• Louis C.K.
  Louis C.K.
  Louis Szekely , known professionally as Louis C.K., is a stand-up comedian, television and film writer, actor, producer, and director...
  
  , Just For Laughs
  Just for Laughs
  Just for Laughs is a comedy festival held each July in Montreal, Quebec, founded in 1983. It is the largest international comedy festival in the world.- Information :...
  
  
• Jon Dore
  Jon Dore
  Jonathan David Dore is a Canadian comedian and actor.-Career:Dore spent three years co-hosting Rogers Television's Daytime. For his work, creativity and quick improv skills, he received the Impression Award for best on-air personality in 2001...
  
  , The Jon Dore Television Show
  The Jon Dore Television Show
  The Jon Dore Television Show is a mockumentary-style sitcom, based on an idea by Jon Dore and John Brunton. The show stars Canadian actor and comedian Jon Dore, of recent Canadian Idol co-host fame. The Comedy Network ordered 13 half hour episodes of the series, which premiered on October 17,...
  
  
• Jo Koy
  Jo Koy
  Jo Koy is an American stand-up comic. He is currently touring the college circuit as a featured comedian and performs in clubs across the country. He is often a panelist on E!'s late night show Chelsea Lately.- Early life :Koy is of Filipino and Caucasian heritage...
  
  , Just For Laughs
  Just for Laughs
  Just for Laughs is a comedy festival held each July in Montreal, Quebec, founded in 1983. It is the largest international comedy festival in the world.- Information :...
  
  
• Ian Sirota, Comedy Inc

Best News Anchor

• Ian Hanomansing
  Ian Hanomansing
  Ian Hanomansing is a Canadian television journalist with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation . He currently reports for CBC Television's nightly newscast, The National.-Early life:...
  
  
• Peter Mansbridge
  Peter Mansbridge
  Peter Mansbridge, OC , a Canadian broadcaster and news anchor, is the CBC News Chief Correspondent and anchor of The National, CBC Television's flagship nightly newscast. Mansbridge has received many awards and accolades for his journalistic work including an honorary doctorate from Mount Allison...
  
  
• Kevin Newman
  Kevin Newman (Canadian journalist)
  Kevin Newman is a Canadian journalist and news anchor. From 2001 to 2010, he was the anchor and executive editor of Global National, and hosted Global's weekly newsmagazine series Global Currents. In August 2011 he became the co-host of CTV's Question Period..- Life and career :Newman was born in...
  
  

External links

• 23rd Gemini Awards