The 19th Gemini Awards were held on December 13, 2004 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...

. It was broadcast on CBC

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...

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Best 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....
  
  
• Puppets Who Kill
  Puppets Who Kill
  Puppets Who Kill is a Canadian television comedy programme co-produced by The Comedy Network. It premiered in Canada on the Comedy Network in 2002, and in Australia on The Comedy Channel in 2004....
  
  
• The Newsroom
  The Newsroom
  The Newsroom is a Canadian television comedy-drama series which ran on CBC Television in the 1996-97, 2003–04 and 2004-05 seasons. A two-hour television movie, Escape from the Newsroom, was broadcast in 2002....
  
  
• The Red Green Show
  The Red Green Show
  The Red Green Show is a Canadian television comedy that aired on various channels in Canada, with its ultimate home at CBC Television, and on Public Broadcasting Service stations in the United States, from 1991 until the series finale April 7, 2006 on CBC...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Trailer Park Boys
  Trailer Park Boys
  Trailer Park Boys is a Canadian comedy mockumentary television series created and directed by Mike Clattenburg that focuses on the misadventures of a group of trailer park residents, some of whom are ex-convicts, living in the fictional Sunnyvale Trailer Park in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. The...
  
  

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...

• Bliss
  Bliss (TV series)
  Bliss is a Canadian produced, half hour dramatic television series, produced by Montreal-based Galafilm and Toronto-based Back Alley Films, an anthology of women's erotica...
  
  
• Da Vinci's Inquest
  Da Vinci's Inquest
  Da Vinci's Inquest is a Canadian dramatic television series that aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2005. Seven seasons of thirteen episodes each were filmed for a total of ninety-one episodes....
  
  
• The Eleventh Hour
  The Eleventh Hour (TV series)
  The Eleventh Hour is a Canadian television drama series which aired weekly on CTV from 2002 to 2005.The show revolves around the reporters and producers at a fictional television newsmagazine series, The Eleventh Hour...
  
  
• The Shields Stories
• Slings & Arrows
• Snakes & Ladders
  Snakes and Ladders (TV series)
  Snakes and Ladders is a Canadian television mini-series created by Wayne Grigsby which aired on CBC Television in 2004. The series starred Amy Price-Francis as Shannon Jennings, a woman who takes a job as an executive assistant at Parliament Hill for a cabinet minister named Audrey Flankman...
  
  

Best TV Movie or Dramatic Mini-Series

• Cowboys and Indians - The Killing of J.J. Harper
• Elizabeth Rex
  Elizabeth Rex
  Elizabeth Rex is a play by Timothy Findley.The plot involves a meeting between Queen Elizabeth I and an actor from Shakespeare's troupe who specializes in playing women's parts...
  
  
• Human Cargo
  Human Cargo
  Human Cargo is a 2004 Canadian television miniseries. The series won seven Gemini Awards and two Directors Guild of Canada Awards. It premiered on CBC Television on January 4, 2004 and starred Kate Nelligan, Cara Pifko, and Nicholas Campbell....
  
  
• The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie
• Open Heart

Best Music, Variety Program or Series

• 2003 MuchMusic Video Awards
• 2004 Juno Awards
• Live at the Rehearsal Hall
• Painting Daisies - The Dream Team
• ZeD
  ZeD
  ZeD is a Canadian variety television program and website. The series premiered on CBC Television in March 2002 and ran to 2006. Hosted primarily by Sharon Lewis and Ziya Tong, ZeD publicized creative works from Canada and other countries, including a substantial portion of material created by...
  
  

Best Documentary Series

• 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 Passionate Eye
  The Passionate Eye
  The Passionate Eye is a Canadian documentary television series, which airs on CBC News Network.The series presents documentary programming from around the world....
  
  
• Rough Cuts
  Rough Cuts (TV series)
  Rough Cuts was a Canadian television series, which aired on CBC Newsworld. Launched in 1994, the series presents documentary films by new and independent journalists and producers...
  
  
• Turning Points of History
• 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 Newscast

• CityNews
  CityNews
  CityNews is the title of local television newscasts currently seen on CITY-TV Toronto, Canada. It premiered on September 12, 1977 under the name CityPulse, then spread to Citytv stations in other cities across Canada. Due to severe financial issues, as of January 19, 2010, the only station that...
  
  
• CTV National News
  CTV National News
  CTV National News is CTV's flagship newscast, which airs at 11:00 p.m. local time on the CTV stations across Canada, and live at 10:00pm ET, with repeats hourly up until 2 a.m. ET on CTV News Channel, CTV's 24-hour cable news television channel, and the previous day's can be seen on the Internet. ...
  
  
• The National

Best News Information Series

• The Docket
• 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...
  
  
• Foreign Assignment
• Question Period
  Question Period (TV series)
  Question Period is a Canadian television newsmagazine which airs weekly, currently excluding the summer months, on CTV at 11:00 AM ET in Ontario and east, and 4:00 PM local on stations in Western Canada. It also airs on the CTV News Channel at 5:00 PM EST...
  
  
• 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...
  
  

Best Writing in a Dramatic Series

• Da Vinci's Inquest
  Da Vinci's Inquest
  Da Vinci's Inquest is a Canadian dramatic television series that aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2005. Seven seasons of thirteen episodes each were filmed for a total of ninety-one episodes....
  
  
• The Eleventh Hour
  The Eleventh Hour (TV series)
  The Eleventh Hour is a Canadian television drama series which aired weekly on CTV from 2002 to 2005.The show revolves around the reporters and producers at a fictional television newsmagazine series, The Eleventh Hour...
  
  
• Slings & Arrows
• Snakes & Ladders
  Snakes and Ladders (TV series)
  Snakes and Ladders is a Canadian television mini-series created by Wayne Grigsby which aired on CBC Television in 2004. The series starred Amy Price-Francis as Shannon Jennings, a woman who takes a job as an executive assistant at Parliament Hill for a cabinet minister named Audrey Flankman...
  
  

Best Writing in a Comedy or Variety 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....
  
  
• Made in Canada
  Made in Canada
  Made in Canada is a Canadian television situation comedy which aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2003. Rick Mercer co-created the program and starred as mercenary TV producer Richard Strong....
  
  
• Puppets Who Kill
  Puppets Who Kill
  Puppets Who Kill is a Canadian television comedy programme co-produced by The Comedy Network. It premiered in Canada on the Comedy Network in 2002, and in Australia on The Comedy Channel in 2004....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Trailer Park Boys
  Trailer Park Boys
  Trailer Park Boys is a Canadian comedy mockumentary television series created and directed by Mike Clattenburg that focuses on the misadventures of a group of trailer park residents, some of whom are ex-convicts, living in the fictional Sunnyvale Trailer Park in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. The...
  
  

Best Direction in a Dramatic Series

• Da Vinci's Inquest
  Da Vinci's Inquest
  Da Vinci's Inquest is a Canadian dramatic television series that aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2005. Seven seasons of thirteen episodes each were filmed for a total of ninety-one episodes....
  
  
• The Eleventh Hour
  The Eleventh Hour (TV series)
  The Eleventh Hour is a Canadian television drama series which aired weekly on CTV from 2002 to 2005.The show revolves around the reporters and producers at a fictional television newsmagazine series, The Eleventh Hour...
  
  
• This is Wonderland
  This Is Wonderland
  This Is Wonderland was a Canadian television series which aired on CBC Television. The series is a legal drama with comedic elements, or a comedy-drama. It was created by playwright George F...
  
  

Best Direction in a Comedy Program or Series

• An American in Canada
  An American in Canada
  An American in Canada is a Canadian television sitcom that aired on CBC.The show starred Rick Roberts as Jake Crewe, an American television news host who was forced, after beating up his station manager, to accept a job in Calgary, Alberta as the host of the lowest-rated morning news program in the...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• Puppets Who Kill
  Puppets Who Kill
  Puppets Who Kill is a Canadian television comedy programme co-produced by The Comedy Network. It premiered in Canada on the Comedy Network in 2002, and in Australia on The Comedy Channel in 2004....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Trailer Park Boys
  Trailer Park Boys
  Trailer Park Boys is a Canadian comedy mockumentary television series created and directed by Mike Clattenburg that focuses on the misadventures of a group of trailer park residents, some of whom are ex-convicts, living in the fictional Sunnyvale Trailer Park in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. The...
  
  

Best Ensemble Performance 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....
  
  

Janet Wright, Brent Butt, Gabrielle Miller, Eric Peterson, Tara Spencer-Nairn, Lorne Cardinal, Nancy Robertson, Fred Ewanuick

• The Joe Blow Show

Debra McGrath, Peter Oldring, Lisa Merchant, Rebecca Northan, Paul O'Sullivan

• Made in Canada
  Made in Canada
  Made in Canada is a Canadian television situation comedy which aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2003. Rick Mercer co-created the program and starred as mercenary TV producer Richard Strong....
  
  

Rick Mercer, Peter Keleghan, Leah Pinsent, Dan Lett, Jackie Torrens

• 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...
  
  

Mary Walsh, Greg Thomey, Cathy Jones, Shaun Majumder, Mark Critch

• Trailer Park Boys
  Trailer Park Boys
  Trailer Park Boys is a Canadian comedy mockumentary television series created and directed by Mike Clattenburg that focuses on the misadventures of a group of trailer park residents, some of whom are ex-convicts, living in the fictional Sunnyvale Trailer Park in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. The...
  
  

Michael Jackson, Shelley Thompson, Barrie Dunn, Robb Wells, Cory Bowles, Lucy Decoutere, Sarah Dunsworth, John Dunsworth, Tyrone Parsons, Pat Roach, Jonathan Torrens, Mike Smith, John Paul Tremblay, Jeanna Harrison-Steinhart, Garry James

Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role

• Paul Gross
  Paul Gross
  Paul Michael Gross is a Canadian actor, producer, director, singer and writer born in Calgary, Alberta. He is known for his lead role as Constable Benton Fraser in the television series Due South as well as his 2008 war film Passchendaele, which he wrote, produced, directed, and starred in...
  
  , Slings & Arrows
• Nicholas Campbell
  Nicholas Campbell
  Nicholas Campbell , sometimes credited as Nick Campbell, is a Canadian actor and filmmaker, who has won three Gemini Awards for acting. The movies Naked Lunch, Prozac Nation and the TV series Da Vinci's Inquest are some examples of his acting work.-Early life:Campbell was born in Toronto, Ontario,...
  
  , Da Vinci's Inquest
  Da Vinci's Inquest
  Da Vinci's Inquest is a Canadian dramatic television series that aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2005. Seven seasons of thirteen episodes each were filmed for a total of ninety-one episodes....
  
  
• Shawn Doyle
  Shawn Doyle
  Shawn Doyle is a Canadian actor.Doyle was born and raised in Wabush, Newfoundland, the son of actor Jerry Doyle. He moved to Toronto to study theatre at York University....
  
  , The Eleventh Hour
  The Eleventh Hour (TV series)
  The Eleventh Hour is a Canadian television drama series which aired weekly on CTV from 2002 to 2005.The show revolves around the reporters and producers at a fictional television newsmagazine series, The Eleventh Hour...
  
  
• Michael Riley
  Michael Riley
  Michael Riley is a Canadian actor and graduate of the National Theatre School in Montreal, Canada in 1984. Riley's first appearance was in the film No Man's Land...
  
  , This is Wonderland
  This Is Wonderland
  This Is Wonderland was a Canadian television series which aired on CBC Television. The series is a legal drama with comedic elements, or a comedy-drama. It was created by playwright George F...
  
  
• Jeff Seymour
  Jeff Seymour
  Jeff Seymour is an American-Canadian actor, best known for his roles in television series such as Show Me Yours, Jeff Ltd., The Eleventh Hour and Being Erica....
  
  , The Eleventh Hour
  The Eleventh Hour (TV series)
  The Eleventh Hour is a Canadian television drama series which aired weekly on CTV from 2002 to 2005.The show revolves around the reporters and producers at a fictional television newsmagazine series, The Eleventh Hour...
  
  

Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role

• Martha Burns
  Martha Burns
  Martha Burns is an award-winning Canadian actress known for her stage work and youth outreach in Ontario and her leading role as Ellen Fanshaw in the TV dramedy series Slings and Arrows.Burns was born 1958 in Winnipeg, Manitoba...
  
  , Slings & Arrows
• Catherine Disher
  Catherine Disher
  Catherine Wilder Disher is a Canadian actress who won a Gemini Award for Best Actress for her role in the Canadian mini-series Snakes & Ladders, and was nominated for her role as Dr...
  
  , Snakes & Ladders
  Snakes and Ladders (TV series)
  Snakes and Ladders is a Canadian television mini-series created by Wayne Grigsby which aired on CBC Television in 2004. The series starred Amy Price-Francis as Shannon Jennings, a woman who takes a job as an executive assistant at Parliament Hill for a cabinet minister named Audrey Flankman...
  
  
• Cara Pifko
  Cara Pifko
  Cara Pifko is a Canadian actress known primarily for her work on television shows produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation....
  
  , This is Wonderland
  This Is Wonderland
  This Is Wonderland was a Canadian television series which aired on CBC Television. The series is a legal drama with comedic elements, or a comedy-drama. It was created by playwright George F...
  
  
• Waneta Storms
  Waneta Storms
  Waneta Storms is a Canadian dramatic actor. She is best known for her portrayal of Isobel Lambert in the CTV series The Eleventh Hour ....
  
  , The Eleventh Hour
  The Eleventh Hour (TV series)
  The Eleventh Hour is a Canadian television drama series which aired weekly on CTV from 2002 to 2005.The show revolves around the reporters and producers at a fictional television newsmagazine series, The Eleventh Hour...
  
  
• Tracy Waterhouse, Blue Murder

Best Individual Performance in a Comedy Program or Series

• Gavin Crawford
  Gavin Crawford
  Gavin Crawford is a Canadian comedian and actor, best known for The Gavin Crawford Show and This Hour Has 22 Minutes. Crawford is a graduate of the BFA Acting Program at the University of British Columbia...
  
  , The Gavin Crawford Show
  The Gavin Crawford Show
  The Gavin Crawford Show was a Canadian sketch comedy series that ran from June 19, 2000 to July 1, 2003 on The Comedy Network.The show starred comedian Gavin Crawford, along with an ensemble cast of supporting performers...
  
  
• Gavin Crawford, 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...
  
  
• Roman Danylo
  Roman Danylo
  Roman Danylo is a Canadian comedian, improviser and actor based out of Vancouver, British Columbia. He currently stars in the CTV television network show Comedy Inc.-Career:...
  
  , Comedy Inc
• Shaun Majumder
  Shaun Majumder
  -Life and career:Majumder was born in Burlington, Newfoundland and Labrador to a European descended mother from Newfoundland and an Indian father. He started his entertainment career as an announcer for the YTV game show CLIPS, and soon was hosting the network's popular morning kids show Brain...
  
  , Comedy From The Coast
• Russell Peters
  Russell Peters
  Russell Dominic Peters is an Indo-Canadian comedian, actor and disc jockey. He began performing in Toronto in 1989 and has been nominated for four Gemini Awards.-Early life :...
  
   ,Comedy Now

Best News Anchor

• 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...
  
  
• Lloyd Robertson
  Lloyd Robertson
  Lloyd Robertson, OC is the currently the co-host of CTV's weekly magazine series, W5. Robertson previously served as the chief anchor and senior editor of CTV's national evening newscast, CTV News with Lloyd Robertson, until September, 2011, when he retired from the CTV National News...