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Winners of 22nd Annual Gemini Awards Announced at Broadcast Gala

General News / General TV News
Posted by RAD on Oct 28, 2007 - 10:23 PM

The second stop for the Gemini Awards "road show" concluded tonight in Regina, Saskatchewan with the unveiling of the final winners. The celebration of outstanding achievement in Canadian television began with ET Canada at The Gemini Awards on Global Television, which was followed by the 22nd Annual Gala Awards on CBC Television. This was the second gala held outside of Toronto (the first was held in Vancouver in 2006).

The 2007 Broadcast Gala winners are:
Best Comedy Program or Series
Corner Gas
(Prairie Pants Productions Inc, Verité Films, 335 Productions)
Brent Butt, Paul Mather, David Storey, Virginia Thompson

Best Direction in a Dramatic Series
Chris Haddock - Intelligence - Down But Not Out

Best Dramatic Series
Slings & Arrows Season Three
(Rhombus Media Inc.)
Niv Fichman, Sari Friedland

Best Ensemble Performance in a Comedy Program or Series
Brent Butt, Lorne Cardinal, Fred Ewanuick, Gabrielle Miller, Eric Peterson, Nancy Robertson, Tara Spencer-Nairn, Janet Wright - Corner Gas - Gopher It

Best Host or Interviewer in a Sports Program or Sportscast
Ron MacLean - Hockey Night in Canada

Best Individual Performance in a Comedy Program or Series
Phyllis Ellis - The Wilkinsons - I Don't Want to Lose You to LA

Best Music, Variety Program or Series
2006 MuchMusic Video Awards
(MuchMusic)
John Kampilis, David Russell, Sheila Sullivan

Best News Anchor
Gord Martineau - CityNews at Six
(CHUM Television)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role
Paul Gross - Slings & Arrows Season Three - The Promised End

Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role
Martha Burns - Slings & Arrows Season Three - All Blessed Secrets

Best Performance or Host in a Variety Program or Series
Measha Brueggergosman, Kevin Breit, Lou Pomanti - Words to Music: The Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame

Best Writing in a Comedy or Variety Program or Series
Mark Farrell - Corner Gas - Gopher It

Best Writing in a Dramatic Series
Susan Coyne, Bob Martin, Mark McKinney - Slings & Arrows Season Three - That Way Madness Lies

Canada Award
Little Mosque on the Prairie
(WestWind Pictures Ltd.)
Zarqa Nawaz, Mary Darling, Clark Donnelly, Susan Flanders-Alexander, Michael Snook

Donald Brittain Award for Best Social/Political Documentary Program
Fatherland
(Barna-Alper Productions Inc.)
Laszlo Barna, Manfred Becker

The Best Dramatic Series is sponsored by the Independent Production Fund
The Best Writing in a Dramatic Series is sponsored by the Independent Production Fund
The Donald Brittain Award for Best Social/Political Documentary Program is sponsored by the Rogers Group of Funds
The Canada Award is sponsored by Canadian Heritage


To view the list of winners winners from the first three nights of awards, visit www.geminiawards.ca.

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