The 20th Gemini Awards were held on November 19, 2005 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...

. For the first time in its history the Gemini Awards were not broadcast on CBC Television

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...

, instead they were broadcast on Global

Global Television Network

Global Television Network is an English language privately owned television network in Canada, owned by Calgary-based Shaw Communications, as part of its Shaw Media division...

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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....
  
  
• History Bites
  History Bites
  History Bites was a television series on the History Television network that ran from 1998-2003. Created by Rick Green, History Bites explored what would be on television if the medium had been around for the last 5,000 years of human history. Typically, a significant historical event was chosen...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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

• 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....
  
  
• Degrassi: The Next Generation
  Degrassi: The Next Generation
  Degrassi: The Next Generation is a Canadian teen drama television series set in the Degrassi universe, which was created by Linda Schuyler and Kit Hood in 1979. Degrassi is the fourth fictional series in the Degrassi franchise, and follows The Kids of Degrassi Street, Degrassi Junior High, and...
  
  
• Godiva's
  Godiva's
  Godiva's is an hour long Canadian television comedy-drama series, which debuted on Bravo! and Citytv in 2005. It completed a successful two-season run in 2006, but though the show received rave reviews, it was cancelled by CHUM broadcasting...
  
  
• 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 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 Dramatic Mini 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...

• H2O
• Sex Traffic
  Sex Traffic
  Sex Traffic is a British-Canadian two-part television drama directed by David Yates, written by Abi Morgan and produced by Veronica Castillo and Derek Wax...
  
  
• Lives Of The Saints

Best Documentary Series

• Legendary Sin Cities
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• Witness

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...
  
  
• 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 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....
  
  
• 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
  Stargate Atlantis
  Stargate Atlantis is a Canadian-American adventure and military science fiction television series and part of MGM's Stargate franchise. The show was created by Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper as a spin-off series of Stargate SG-1, which was created by Wright and Jonathan Glassner and was itself...
  
  
• 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 Writing in a Comedy or Variety Program or Series

• Getting Along Famously
  Getting Along Famously
  Getting Along Famously is a Canadian sitcom which aired on CBC Television in 2006.Set in the early 1960s, Getting Along Famously features Robin Duke, Bob Martin and Patrick McKenna as real-life couple Colin Mochrie and Debra McGrath....
  
  
• Hatching, Matching and Dispatching
  Hatching, Matching and Dispatching
  Hatching, Matching and Dispatching was a Canadian television sitcom series. The CBC Television show starred Mary Walsh as Mamie Lou Furey, the matriarch of a family in Newfoundland and Labrador who own a combination ambulance, wedding and funeral business. The remaining cast included Shaun...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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

• Cold Squad
  Cold Squad
  Cold Squad is a Canadian police procedural television series first broadcast in 1998 that followed the investigations of a part of the Vancouver Police Department Homicide Division tasked with solving cold cases, the titular Cold Squad, as led by Sergeant Ali McCormick .The cast of Cold Squad 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...
  
  
• 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 Direction in a Dramatic Programme or Mini-Series

• I, Claudia
  I, Claudia
  I, Claudia is a successful one-woman play starring Kristen Thomson, which was adapted into a movie, shown on CBC's Opening Night and at the Toronto International Film Festival....
  
  
• Sex Traffic
  Sex Traffic
  Sex Traffic is a British-Canadian two-part television drama directed by David Yates, written by Abi Morgan and produced by Veronica Castillo and Derek Wax...
  
  
• The Last Casino
  The Last Casino
  The Last Casino is a 2004 Canadian film on the subject of card counting. This movie draws heavily from the ideas espoused in the book Bringing Down the House.-Premise:...
  
  
• Chasing Freedom
• Tripping the Wire: A Stephen Tree Mystery

Best Direction in a Comedy Program or Series

• Ciao Bella
  Ciao Bella
  For Don Omar song, see Ciao Bella .Ciao Bella is a Canadian television sitcom that debuted on CBC Television in the 2004-05 television season...
  
  
• Getting Along Famously
  Getting Along Famously
  Getting Along Famously is a Canadian sitcom which aired on CBC Television in 2006.Set in the early 1960s, Getting Along Famously features Robin Duke, Bob Martin and Patrick McKenna as real-life couple Colin Mochrie and Debra McGrath....
  
  
• Hatching, Matching and Dispatching
  Hatching, Matching and Dispatching
  Hatching, Matching and Dispatching was a Canadian television sitcom series. The CBC Television show starred Mary Walsh as Mamie Lou Furey, the matriarch of a family in Newfoundland and Labrador who own a combination ambulance, wedding and funeral business. The remaining cast included Shaun...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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

• History Bites
  History Bites
  History Bites was a television series on the History Television network that ran from 1998-2003. Created by Rick Green, History Bites explored what would be on television if the medium had been around for the last 5,000 years of human history. Typically, a significant historical event was chosen...
  
  

Rick Green, Ron Pardo, Janet Van de Graaff, Bob Bainborough, Teresa Pavlinek

• 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....
  
  

Gord Robertson, James Rankin, Bob Martin, Dan Redican, Bruce Hunter

• The Tournament
  The Tournament (TV series)
  The Tournament was a Canadian television series, which aired on CBC Television in 2005 and 2006. The series, a mockumentary show about a community minor hockey team, depicted the behind-the-scenes interactions between the players, their parents and coaches as the team competed for a spot in the...
  
  

Martin Huisman, Louis-Philipe Dandenault, Richard Jutras, Annie Bovaird, Paula Boudreau, Al Goulem, Tracey Hoyt, Kate Greenhouse, Ryan Tilson, Christian Potenza, Cas Anvar, Victor Chowdury, Dean McDermott, Swikriti Sarkar

• 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...
  
  

Shaun Majumder, Cathy Jones, Mark Critch, Gavin Crawford

• 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...
  
  

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

Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role

• 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...
  
  
• Ben Bass
  Ben Bass
  Benjamin Langer "Ben" Bass is a television and stage actor. Bass was born in Baltimore, Maryland. At age 7, he moved with his family to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He speaks French fluently. He started in television on the show 21 Jump Street and his stage career in Angry Housewives...
  
  , 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...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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

• Tammy Isbell, Paradise Falls
  Paradise Falls
  Paradise Falls is a weekly soap opera shown nationally on the Showcase channel in Canada, starting in 2001. It is set in a summer cottage community in Central Ontario....
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Victoria Snow, Paradise Falls
  Paradise Falls
  Paradise Falls is a weekly soap opera shown nationally on the Showcase channel in Canada, starting in 2001. It is set in a summer cottage community in Central Ontario....
  
  
• Julie Stewart
  Julie Stewart
  - Biography :Julie Stewart studied acting in Montreal at the National Theatre School of Canada and now makes her home in Toronto. She was the star of the Canadian television series Cold Squad. Her credits also include continuing roles in Chasing Rainbows, North of 60 and The Border.- External links :...
  
  , Cold Squad
  Cold Squad
  Cold Squad is a Canadian police procedural television series first broadcast in 1998 that followed the investigations of a part of the Vancouver Police Department Homicide Division tasked with solving cold cases, the titular Cold Squad, as led by Sergeant Ali McCormick .The cast of Cold Squad was...
  
  
• 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...
  
  

Best Individual Performance in a Comedy Program or Series

• Irwin Barker
  Irwin Barker
  Irwin Barker was a Canadian comedian and writer. He wrote for This Hour Has 22 Minutes and The Rick Mercer Report, and was nominated for four Gemini Awards as a writer and one as stand-up performer for his 2005 performance at the Halifax comedy Festival...
  
  , Halifax Comedy Festival
• Lewis Black
  Lewis Black
  Lewis Niles Black is an American stand-up comedian, author, playwright, social critic and actor. He is known for his comedy style, which often includes simulating a mental breakdown, or an increasingly angry rant, ridiculing history, politics, religion, trends and cultural phenomena...
  
  , 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 :...
  
  
• Colin Fox
  Colin Fox
  Colin Fox is the national spokesperson of the Scottish Socialist Party, and a former member for Lothian in the Scottish Parliament...
  
  , 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....
  
  
• Levi MacDougall, Comedy Now
• Mary Walsh, Hatching, Matching and Dispatching
  Hatching, Matching and Dispatching
  Hatching, Matching and Dispatching was a Canadian television sitcom series. The CBC Television show starred Mary Walsh as Mamie Lou Furey, the matriarch of a family in Newfoundland and Labrador who own a combination ambulance, wedding and funeral business. The remaining cast included Shaun...
  
  

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...