Best Comedy Program or Series

• Less Than Kind
  Less Than Kind
  Less Than Kind is a Canadian television comedy-drama series that stars Jesse Camacho as Sheldon Blecher, a teenager growing up in a loving but dysfunctional Jewish family in Winnipeg. The show's cast also includes Maury Chaykin and Wendel Meldrum as Sheldon's parents, Benjamin Arthur as his older...
  
  
• Rick Mercer Report
  Rick Mercer Report
  Rick Mercer Report is a Canadian television comedy series which airs on CBC Television...
  
  
• Testees
  Testees
  Testees is a Canadian television series, created by Kenny Hotz and written and produced by Kenny Hotz and Derek Harvie . Testees originally aired on Thursdays at 10:30 PM EST on FX and ran from October 9, 2008 to December 18, 2008. and debuted on October 14, 2008 on Showcase in Canada. The show is...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Three Chords from the Truth

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...

• Being Erica
• 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...
  
  
• Flashpoint
  Flashpoint (TV series)
  Flashpoint is a Canadian police drama television series that debuted on July 11, 2008, on CTV in Canada and ran on CBS in the United States for its first three and a half seasons. In 2011, Ion Television began airing new episodes of the series in the United States...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• ZOS: Zone of Separation
  ZOS: Zone of Separation
  ZOS: Zone of Separation is a Canadian television drama mini-series, co-executive produced by Paul Gross.It is an eight-part Canadian original drama mini-series about the life and death struggle to enforce a U.N.-brokered ceasefire in the fictional, Sarajevo-like town of Jadac.-Plot:ZOS is a...
  
  

Best Dramatic Mini Series

• Burn Up
• Diamonds
• The Last Templar
• XIII

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...
  
  
• The Agenda
  The Agenda
  The Agenda with Steve Paikin is the flagship current affairs program of TVOntario, Ontario’s public broadcaster. The show practises what anchor and senior editor Steve Paikin calls "long-form" journalism. Each hour-long program tackles no more than two topics, and often only one...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 16:9
  16:9 (TV series)
  16x9 is a Canadian investigative newsmagazine television program which airs on Global. The series debuted on November 30, 2008...
  
  

Best Ensemble Performance in a Comedy Program or Series

• Fabrizio Filippo, Jennifer Baxter, Mike Beaver, Robin Brûlé, Jayne Eastwood, 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...
  
  
• Ordena Stephens-Thompson, Trey Anthony, Daniel J Gordon, Eli Goree, Ngozi Paul, Da Kink in My Hair
  Da Kink in My Hair (TV series)
  'da Kink in My Hair is a Canadian television sitcom. Based on the play of the same name by Trey Anthony, the story was adapted into a television show currently airing on Global.-Cast:...
  
  
• Christopher Bolton, Oliver Becker, Michael Bodnar, Sarain Boylan, Inga Cadranel, Louis Di Bianco, Carlos Diaz, Mark Cameron Fraser, Matt Gordon, Gabriel Hogan, Mayko Nguyen, Pascal Petardi, Joe Pingue, Jeff Pustil, Simon Reynolds, 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...
  
  
• Shaun Majumder, Gavin Crawford, Mark Critch, 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...
  
  
• Steve Cochrane, Kevin Ellis, George Komorowski, Adriana Maggs, Jordan McCloskey, Steven Morana, Paul Snepsts, Joel Stewart, Three Chords from the Truth

Best Direction in a Dramatic Series

• Being Erica
• 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...
  
  
• Flashpoint
  Flashpoint (TV series)
  Flashpoint is a Canadian police drama television series that debuted on July 11, 2008, on CTV in Canada and ran on CBS in the United States for its first three and a half seasons. In 2011, Ion Television began airing new episodes of the series in the United States...
  
  
• Sanctuary
• 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

• Flashpoint
  Flashpoint (TV series)
  Flashpoint is a Canadian police drama television series that debuted on July 11, 2008, on CTV in Canada and ran on CBS in the United States for its first three and a half seasons. In 2011, Ion Television began airing new episodes of the series in the United States...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Soul
• 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

• 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...
  
  
• Less Than Kind
  Less Than Kind
  Less Than Kind is a Canadian television comedy-drama series that stars Jesse Camacho as Sheldon Blecher, a teenager growing up in a loving but dysfunctional Jewish family in Winnipeg. The show's cast also includes Maury Chaykin and Wendel Meldrum as Sheldon's parents, Benjamin Arthur as his older...
  
  
• Testees
  Testees
  Testees is a Canadian television series, created by Kenny Hotz and written and produced by Kenny Hotz and Derek Harvie . Testees originally aired on Thursdays at 10:30 PM EST on FX and ran from October 9, 2008 to December 18, 2008. and debuted on October 14, 2008 on Showcase in Canada. The show is...
  
  

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...
  
  
• CAUTION: May Contain Nuts
• Less Than Kind
  Less Than Kind
  Less Than Kind is a Canadian television comedy-drama series that stars Jesse Camacho as Sheldon Blecher, a teenager growing up in a loving but dysfunctional Jewish family in Winnipeg. The show's cast also includes Maury Chaykin and Wendel Meldrum as Sheldon's parents, Benjamin Arthur as his older...
  
  
• Testees
  Testees
  Testees is a Canadian television series, created by Kenny Hotz and written and produced by Kenny Hotz and Derek Harvie . Testees originally aired on Thursdays at 10:30 PM EST on FX and ran from October 9, 2008 to December 18, 2008. and debuted on October 14, 2008 on Showcase in Canada. The show is...
  
  
• 29th Genie Awards
  29th Genie Awards
  The 29th Genie Awards were held on April 4, 2009 to honour films released in 2008. The ceremony was held at the Canadian Aviation Museum in Ottawa, Ontario, and was broadcast on Global...
  
  

• Best of the Fest
• So You Think You Can Dance Canada
  So You Think You Can Dance Canada
  So You Think You Can Dance Canada was a dance competition and reality show that aired on CTV.Based on the original American TV show So You Think You Can Dance, the Canadian series showcased the best in Canadian dancing talent. Each season, the show held auditions in major cities across the...
  
  
• 2008 Gemini Awards
  2008 Gemini Awards
  The 23rd Gemini Awards were held on 28 November 2008 to honour achievements in Canadian television. The ceremony was broadcast on Showcase and E!. It was hosted by Jason Priestley.-Best Comedy Program or Series:* Cock'd Gunns* Corner Gas* Kenny vs...
  
  
• 2008 MuchMusic Video Awards
  2008 MuchMusic Video Awards
  The 2008 MuchMusic Video Awards were held in Toronto, Ontario at MuchMusic's headquarters on June 15, 2008 with the rain-soaked Red carpet arrivals that started at 8:00pm ET, but was slightly delayed by rainstorms that soaked the crowds and artists, the awards started at 9:00 and ended at 11:00...
  
  
• Juno Awards of 2009
  Juno Awards of 2009
  The Juno Awards of 2009 honoured music industry achievements in Canada in the latter part of 2007 and in most of 2008. These ceremonies were held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada during the weekend ending 29 March 2009....
  
  

Best Reality Program or Series

• disBAND - The Homecoming
• 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...
  
  
• GoldMind
  GoldMind
  GoldMind is a half-hour television series starring mentalist Haim Goldenberg. Is it produced in Toronto, Canada by WestWind Pictures for CanWest.GoldMind premiered on TVtropolis in March 2009....
  
  
• 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...
  
  

Best Newscast

• CBC News: The National
• CBC News at Six Manitoba
  CBC News at Six
  CBC News produces a variety of local newscasts for CBC Television's owned-and-operated stations throughout Canada. On most stations, the local news operation is currently titled CBC News: [city/province name], such that the 6:00 p.m. newscast on CBLT is named CBC News: Toronto at 6...
  
  
• 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...
  
  

Best Documentary Series

• CBC News: The Lens
• The Adventurers
• Ancestors in the Attic
  Ancestors in the Attic
  Ancestors in the Attic is a Canadian television program about genealogy presented by Reader’s Digest Canada and shown on History Television in Canada. It is hosted by Jeff Douglas with professional genealogist Paul J. McGrath until his death on 23 October 2008 while filming in Edinburgh, Scotland...
  
  
• Survivorman
  Survivorman
  Survivorman is a Canadian-produced television program, broadcast in Canada on the Outdoor Life Network , and internationally on Discovery Channel and Science Channel...
  
  
• 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

• Enrico Colantoni
  Enrico Colantoni
  Enrico Colantoni is a Canadian actor, probably best known for portraying Elliot DiMauro in the sitcom Just Shoot Me!, Keith Mars on the television series Veronica Mars, and Sergeant Greg Parker on the television series Flashpoint. He has also had supporting roles in such films as The Wrong Guy, ...
  
  , Flashpoint
  Flashpoint (TV series)
  Flashpoint is a Canadian police drama television series that debuted on July 11, 2008, on CTV in Canada and ran on CBS in the United States for its first three and a half seasons. In 2011, Ion Television began airing new episodes of the series in the United States...
  
  
• 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...
  
  , Flashpoint
  Flashpoint (TV series)
  Flashpoint is a Canadian police drama television series that debuted on July 11, 2008, on CTV in Canada and ran on CBS in the United States for its first three and a half seasons. In 2011, Ion Television began airing new episodes of the series in the United States...
  
  
• Robin Dunne
  Robin Dunne
  Robin Dunne is a Canadian actor who is mainly known for having had numerous leading roles in sequels throughout his career, and lately for his role as Doctor Will Zimmerman in the cult Science fiction Television series, Sanctuary....
  
  , Sanctuary
• Daniel Kash
  Daniel Kash
  Daniel Joshua Kash is a Canadian actor and director.He was born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Canadian opera singer Maureen Forrester and violinist/conductor Eugene Kash. He is also the brother of actress Linda Kash. He studied at the Drama Center in London, England and has appeared in dozens...
  
  , The Line
• Ron White
  Ron White (actor)
  Ron White is a Canadian actor who was has been credited with several film and television works.-Filmography:White's television credits include several television series. His television credits include:*9B...
  
  , The Line

Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role

• 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...
  
  
• Amy Jo Johnson
  Amy Jo Johnson
  Amy Jo Johnson is an American actress, singer, songwriter and musician.She is best known for her roles in the televison series as the constable Jules Callaghan in the Canadian CTV television series Flashpoint, the famous jockey Tina Sharp in the ABC Family's original show Wildfire, the rookie cop...
  
  , Flashpoint
  Flashpoint (TV series)
  Flashpoint is a Canadian police drama television series that debuted on July 11, 2008, on CTV in Canada and ran on CBS in the United States for its first three and a half seasons. In 2011, Ion Television began airing new episodes of the series in the United States...
  
  
• Erin Karpluk
  Erin Karpluk
  Erin Karpluk is a Canadian television actress. She is best known for her leading roles in Godiva's and Being Erica...
  
  , Being Erica
• Andrea Menard
  Andrea Menard
  Andrea Menard is a Canadian actress, playwright, and jazz singer, born in 1971 in Flin Flon, Manitoba and based in Saskatchewan.-Career:Menard, who is of Métis descent, is best known for her work on the television series Moccasin Flats and for her starring role as...
  
  , Rabbit Fall
• Amanda Tapping
  Amanda Tapping
  Amanda Tapping is an English-born Canadian actress, producer and director. She is best known for portraying Samantha Carter in the Canadian-American military science fiction television series Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis...
  
  , Sanctuary

Best Individual Performance in a Comedy Program or Series

• Benjamin Arthur, Less Than Kind
  Less Than Kind
  Less Than Kind is a Canadian television comedy-drama series that stars Jesse Camacho as Sheldon Blecher, a teenager growing up in a loving but dysfunctional Jewish family in Winnipeg. The show's cast also includes Maury Chaykin and Wendel Meldrum as Sheldon's parents, Benjamin Arthur as his older...
  
  
• Debra DiGiovanni
  Debra DiGiovanni
  Debra DiGiovanni is a Canadian stand-up comedian of Italian descent originally from Tillsonburg, Ontario.Her comedy career began with the help of Humber College's inaugural year of their Comedy Writing and Performance course, in 2000 and has since been nominated for the coveted Tim Sims Comedy...
  
  , Halifax Comedy Festival
  Halifax Comedy Festival
  The Halifax Comedy Festival is an annual comedy festival held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The festival is sponsored by the CBC which tapes and broadcasts the comedians' sets as a series of television specials, and is usually about one week long...
  
  
• 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,...
  
  
• Terry McGurrin
  Terry McGurrin
  Terry McGurrin is a Canadian actor and writer from Ottawa, Ontario.Terry is perhaps best known for doing the voice of Jonesy Garcia in the TV show 6teen. He has also done voices in TV shows such as Medabots and Stoked...
  
  , Comedy Now!
  Comedy Now!
  Comedy Now! is a Canadian comedy television series which debuted in 1997 featuring the newest in Canadian comedic talent. The show has won numerous Gemini Awards as well as many international awards. It is broadcast in Canada on The Comedy Network, CTV and A...
  
  
• Brooke Palsson, Less Than Kind
  Less Than Kind
  Less Than Kind is a Canadian television comedy-drama series that stars Jesse Camacho as Sheldon Blecher, a teenager growing up in a loving but dysfunctional Jewish family in Winnipeg. The show's cast also includes Maury Chaykin and Wendel Meldrum as Sheldon's parents, Benjamin Arthur as his older...
  
  

Best News Anchor

• Heather Hiscox
  Heather Hiscox
  Heather Hiscox is a Canadian news anchor who hosts CBC News Now from 6 to 9 a.m. on weekdays on CBC News Network. She was also the host of the CBC's former flagship morning television program CBC News: Morning which became part of CBC News Now when the network re-branded itself in 2009.Hiscox was...
  
  
• 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
• Janet Stewart
  Janet Stewart
  Janet Stewart is currently the news anchor at CBWT in Winnipeg, Manitoba since January 9, 2007.Prior to that, she was news anchor at CKY-TV between August 2001 and November 2006....
  
  
• Diana Swain
  Diana Swain
  Diana Swain is a television journalist with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation . She has been the host of CBC News At Six, CBC Toronto's local nightly newscast, since September 2004...
  
  

External links

• 24th Gemini Awards