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Kevin Hanchard, Murdoch Mysteries and Andrew Phung take home trophies during Night 2 of Canadian Screen Awards

Orphan Black‘s Kevin Hanchard, Murdoch Mysteries – A Merry Murdoch Christmas, Slasher‘s Wendy Crewson, Schitt’s Creek‘s Emily Hampshire, Baroness Von Sketch Show and Kim’s Convenience‘s Andrew Phung were among the winners in the Creative Fiction categories during Night 2 of the Canadian Screen Awards.

Hosted by Seán Cullen, the non-televised celebration honoured 42 categories in the guest performance, writing, directing, photography, editing, production design, visual effects, sound, limited, variety and sketch comedy.

“We celebrate all of you in the creative industry,” Cullen said at the beginning of the night. “You are the Steve Bannon of this industry.” He then mentioned Canada’s 150th anniversary before poking fun at Murdoch Mysteries. “The only mystery about Murdoch Mysteries is how to stop yourself from being lost in Yannick Bisson’s eyes,” he said.

“I want to thank Pete Mitchell,” Murdoch Mysteries executive producer Christina Jennings said after A Merry Murdoch Christmas was named Best TV Movie. “He has been running Murdoch Mysteries for six seasons and we are now at 150 hours of television.”

Here are the winners in several of the key categories:

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Supporting role in a Dramatic Program or Series
Kevin Hanchard, Orphan Black

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Supporting role in a Dramatic Program or Series
Wendy Crewson, Slasher

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Supporting role or Guest role in a Comedic Series
Andrew Phung, Kim’s Convenience

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Supporting role or Guest role in a Comedic Series
Emily Hampshire, Schitt’s Creek

Best Writing in a Variety or Sketch Comedy Series
Baroness Von Sketch Show, CBC

Best Writing in a Comedy Program or Series
Jared Keeso, Jacob Tierney, Letterkenny

Best Writing in a Dramatic Program or Limited Series
Peter Mitchell, Murdoch Mysteries – A Very Murdoch Christmas

Best Writing in a Dramatic Series
Graeme Manson, Orphan Black

Best Writing in a Children’s or Youth Program or Series
Alejandro Alcoba, Degrassi: Next Class

Best Writing in an Animated Program or Series
Craig Martin, Nerds and Monsters

Best Performance in a Children’s or Youth Program or Series
Brittany Raymond, The Next Step

Best Performance in an Animated Program or Series
Martin Short, The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot about Camping!

Best Performance in a Guest Role, Dramatic Series
Edward Asner, Forgive Me

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Limited Series
Ben Carlson, The Taming of the Shrew

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Limited Series
Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Unclaimed

Best Performing Arts Program
The Taming of the Shrew, CBC

Best Pre-School Program or Series
PAW Patrol, TVO

Best Animated Program or Series
The Curse of Clara: A Holiday Tale, CBC

Best Children’s or Youth Fiction Program or Series
Odd Squad, TVO

Best TV Movie or Limited Series
Murdoch Mysteries – A Merry Murdoch Christmas, CBC

Best Variety or Sketch Comedy Program or Series
Baroness Von Sketch Show, CBC

The complete list of winners from Wednesday night.

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Awards, Featured

Still Standing and The Amazing Race Canada topline Canadian Screen Awards Night 1

CBC’s Still Standing, CTV’s The Amazing Race and Food Network Canada’s You Gotta Eat Here! were among the winners during a jam-packed Night 1 of the Canadian Screen Awards.

“As a former nominee who didn’t win, it truly is an honour to be nominated,” quipped Big Brother Canada‘s Arisa Cox, who hosted the evening. “And there are about 400 of you nominated. Still Standing is nominated tonight. It’s the title of a show and a comment on the state of the CBC.”

Fifty categories celebrating non-fiction television—including news, sports, factual, reality, lifestyle, talk and children’s programming—were handed out at Toronto’s Westin Harbour Castle during the non-televised event. Simcha Jacobovici received the Gordon Sinclair Award for Broadcast Journalism.

Here are the winners in several key categories:

Best Writing in a Factual Program or Series
Still Standing, CBC

Best Writing in a Lifestyle or Reality/Competition Program or Series
The Amazing Race Canada, CTV

Best Writing in a Documentary Program or Series
The Woman Who Joined the Taliban, CBC

Best Science or Nature Documentary Program or Series
Moose: A Year in the Life of a Twig Eater, CBC

Best Biography or Arts Documentary Program or Series
Hip-Hop Evolution, HBO Canada

Best Factual Program or Series
Still Standing, CBC

Best History Documentary Program or Series
War Story: Afghanistan, History

Best Children’s or Youth Non-Fiction Program or Series
Science Max: Experiments at Large, TVO

Best Documentary Program
My Millennial Life, TVO

Best Local Newscast
CBC News: Here & Now, CBC

Best National Newscast
CBC News: The National, CBC

Best News Anchor, National
Lisa LaFlamme, CTV National News with Lisa LaFlamme, CTV

Best News, Local
Daryl McIntyre, CTV News Edmonton, CTV

Best Host in a Lifestyle, Talk or Entertainment News Program or Series
Jonny Harris, Still Standing, CBC

Best Talk Program or Series
The Marilyn Denis Show, CTV

Best Lifestyle Program or Series
You Gotta Eat Here!, Food Network Canada

Best News or Information Series
Daily Planet, Discovery Canada

Best Reality/Competition Program or Series
The Amazing Race Canada, CTV

Follow the link to the complete list of winners.

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Awards, Kim's Convenience

Kim’s Convenience toplines ACTRA Toronto Award winners

From a media release:

ACTRA Toronto is proud to announce the winners of its 15th Annual ACTRA Awards in Toronto.

Outstanding Performance – Female
Jean Yoon (Umma) Kim’s Convenience, “Gay Discount” (Thunderbird Films)

Outstanding Performance – Male
Joey Klein (Bobby) We’re Still Together (Achromatic Media)

Outstanding Performance – Voice
Linda Kash (Gina Falcone) Fugget About It, “Vagina’s Got Talent” (9 Story Media Group)

The members’ choice Series Ensemble Award went to Kim’s Convenience.

Joel Keller presented ACTRA Toronto’s 2017 Award of Excellence to Yannick Bisson.

The ACTRA Toronto Stunt Award was presented posthumously to Joel Harris. His widow, stunt performer Alicia Turner, accepted.

The newly-elected President of ACTRA Toronto Theresa Tova said, “Canada has been reflected by ACTRA’s professional performers for fully half of Canada’s 150-year history. Linda Kash, Joey Klein, Jean Yoon, Yannick Bisson, Joel Harris and Kim’s Convenience, and all the nominees, personify the extraordinary talent of our professional acting community.”

The 15th Annual ACTRA Awards in Toronto were presented at a live show and gala tonight at The Carlu. The show was hosted by Aurora Browne, Carolyn Taylor and Jennifer Whalen from the Baroness Von Sketch troupe with live music by the 11-piece Wintergarten Orchestra with singer and actor Ted Atherton. The evening sported a theme to honour Canada’s sesquicentennial celebrations.

The 15th Annual ACTRA Awards in Toronto were sponsored by: DIAMOND: Actra Fraternal Benefit Society, ACTRA National, ACTRA Performers’ Rights Society, ACTRA Recording Artists’ Collecting Society. PLATINUM: Bell Media, SAG-AFTRA. GOLD: CBC, CMPA, Deluxe, IATSE 873, Rhombus Media, Shaftesbury, United Steelworkers. POST-SHOW RECEPTION: eOne. SILVER: Cavalluzzo, Directors Guild of Canada (Ontario), RBC Royal Bank. BRONZE: Addenda Capital, Creative Arts Savings & Credit Union, Canada Film Capital and Entertainment Partners Canada, Don Carmody Productions, Frantic Films, Grant Thornton, HUB International, New Real Films, Serendipity Point Films, Take 5 Productions, Thunderbird Entertainment, TriBro Studios, Universal Promotions, Writers Guild of Canada.

ACTRA Toronto is the largest organization within ACTRA, representing more than 15,000 of Canada’s 23,000 professional performers working in recorded media in Canada. As an advocate for Canadian culture since 1943, ACTRA is a member-driven union that continues to secure rights and respect for the work of professional performers.

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Awards, Featured, Polls

Poll: Which television series should win a Canadian Screen Award?

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The Canadian Screen Awards for homegrown television and feature films is just weeks away—the gala broadcast hosted by Howie Mandel is Sunday, March 12, on CBC—and we want you to weigh in on some of the biggest categories!

Should Blood & Water take out 19-2 and Orphan Black? Think Kim’s Convenience deserves to grab the hardware from Mr. D‘s hands? We want you to hear who you’d vote for in this year’s Canadian Screen Awards. So get clicking … and start sharing with your friends! This poll is all about TV series categories; we’ll cover personal performances in another poll next week.

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Awards

Murdoch, Motive, Saving Hope, Heartland and Private Eyes battle for Golden Screen Award

From a media release:

The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television announces the finalists for the Golden Screen Award for the most-watched Canadian drama or comedy program and one for the country’s highest-rated reality program.

The Golden Screen Award for TV Drama or Comedy and the Golden Screen Award for TV Reality Show are Academy Special Awards, which will be presented during the Canadian Screen Awards on Sunday, March 12, 2017 at 8 pm (9 pm AT; 9:30 pm NT) live on CBC from Toronto’s Sony Centre for the Performing Arts.

Based on data provided by Numeris, these are the five Top-Rated programs in each category for the 2015-2016 broadcast year. *

Golden Screen Award for TV Drama / Comedy Finalists

(in alpha order):

HEARTLAND | CBC (CBC) (Seven24 Films)
Season nine of Heartland finds the Bartlett-Fleming clan navigating the new normal as each family member starts an exciting chapter, leaving past hurt and hardships behind. With the idyllic Alberta foothills as their backdrop, this tightknit family knows that any challenge can be met and every struggle can be overcome as long as they have each other.

MOTIVE | CTV (Bell Media) (Motive Productions IV Inc.)
Starring Kristin Lehman, Louis Ferreira, Brendan Penny, and Lauren Holly, Motive’s fourth and final season brought the story of the series’ dynamic homicide team to a powerful conclusion as they continued to explore what drives the motive behind the murder. This season saw each member of the team face pivotal choices about their future, as they set on a course of deciding what they wanted their legacies to be.

MURDOCH MYSTERIES | CBC (CBC) (Shaftesbury)
Set in Toronto at the dawn of the 20th century during the age of invention, Murdoch Mysteries is a one-hour drama centred on Detective William Murdoch (Yannick Bisson), the methodical and dashing detective who pioneers innovative forensic techniques to solve gruesome murders.

PRIVATE EYES | Global (Corus Entertainment) (Entertainment One)
Starring Jason Priestley and Cindy Sampson, Private Eyes is an engaging drama featuring two strong and forever-competing characters investigating, high-stakes cases of the week, taking them to many diverse worlds and testing their new partnership.

SAVING HOPE | CTV (Bell Media) (Entertainment One and ICF Films)
Set 11 months after its explosive third season finale, Season 4 of Saving Hope followed Dr. Alex Reid as she returned from maternity leave to confront new changes and challenges. The special two-hour finale saw Dr. Charlie Harris (Michael Shanks) undergo brain surgery to remove an aggressive tumour, only to be faced with a vengeful former patient with a gun at the Hope Zion Hospital Fellowship Awards, leaving Alex and Charlie’s fate in question. Starring Erica Durance and Michael Shanks.

Golden Screen Award for TV Reality Show Finalists

(in alpha order):

THE AMAZING RACE CANADA | CTV (Bell Media) (Insight Production Company Ltd.)
Hosted by Canadian Screen Award-winner and Olympic Gold Medalist Jon Montgomery, Season 4 of The Amazing Race Canada featured 10 all-Canadian teams, each compromised of two members with a pre-existing relationship, in the biggest race this country has ever seen. The Racers traveled across Canada and beyond, tackling non-stop challenges and adventures, with dating couple Steph and Kristen crossing the final pit stop first, to win the grand prize.

BIG BROTHER CANADA | GLOBAL (Corus Entertainment) (Insight Production Company Ltd.)
In the ultimate social experiment, a group of strangers live together in a house monitored 24-7 by dozens of cameras and microphones. Each week the houseguests compete in a variety of challenges and one by one, the houseguests vote each other out of the house. At the end of the series the last seven evicted houseguests remaining make up ‘the jury’ and they ultimately decide which of the two final houseguests wins the grand prize!

CANADA’S WORST DRIVER | DISCOVERY CHANNEL (Bell Media) (Proper Television Inc.)
Lead by returning host and Discovery mainstay Andrew Younghusband, the hilarious-meets-educational Canadian original automotive series follows eight drivers, each nominated by a friend or family member, as they attempt to prove they possess the necessary skills to graduate from rehab and escape the unfortunate title of “Canada’s Worst Driver”.

DRAGONS’ DEN | CBC (CBC)
Dragons’ Den features five multi-millionaires who have the expertise and the know-how to turn great ideas into incredible fortunes. Each week, fortunate entrepreneurs have the opportunity of a lifetime to pitch their business idea to financiers with the funds and experience to propel their company to commercial success.

MASTERCHEF CANADA | CTV (Bell Media) (Proper Television Inc.)
MASTERCHEF CANADA features esteemed judges Michael Bonacini (O&B restaurant empire), Alvin Leung (Bo Innovation in Hong Kong), and Claudio Aprile (Origin Restaurants), as they guide and mentor a group of competing home cooks through a grueling series of culinary challenges for the chance to win $100,000 and the title of Canada’s next MasterChef.

* Audience estimates provided by Numeris based on a list of top Canadian television programming (series, limited series and TV movies) provided by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television and their broadcast partners. Analysis based on Total Canada, P2+, Average Minute Audience during the period of September 1, 2015 – August 30, 2016, original airings (“live plus 7 days”) with 50% or more of the airings occurring during the 2015-16 broadcast season.

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