Gemini Impressions

FULL GEMINI NOMINATIONS are now up at www.geminis.ca .

(Thanks to Will and Jim for noticing that the link I had went to a horoscope site. D'oh.)

The Best Comedy Noms were:

Cock'd Gunns
(Tricon Films & Television)
Andrea Gorfolova, Brooks Gray, Andy King, Shaam Makan, Leo Scherman, Morgan Waters

Corner Gas
(Prairie Pants Productions Inc., Vérité Films, 335 Productions)
David Storey, Brent Butt, Mark Farrell, Virginia Thompson, Kevin White

Kenny vs. Spenny
(Breakthrough Films & Television, Blueprint Entertainment)
Ira Levy, Abby Finer, Noreen Halpern, Kenny Hotz, Amy Marcella, John Morayniss, Trey Parker, Spencer Rice, Kirsten Scollie, Matt Stone, Peter Williamson

Odd Job Jack
(Smiley Guy Studios)
Jonas Diamond, Adrian Carter, Jeremy Diamond, Denny Silverthorne

Rent-A-Goalie
(RAG-TV-2 Inc.)
Chris Szarka, Christopher Bolton

This Hour Has 22 Minutes
(Hour Productions XV Inc.)
Michael Donovan, Geoff D'Eon, Mark Farrell, Jack Kellum, Susan MacDonald, Jenipher Ritchie

Strikes me as odd that Mosque didn't make that list, but whatevs. Nice to see RAG up there -- and with a writing nom for my man G.Manson, too. Dope!

Then there's the fine actors of The Border -- Jonas Chernick, James McGowan, and Catherine Disher -- all recognized for their fine and dependable performances. And the ensemble cast of Rent-A-Goalie, deservedly nominated for best ensemble.

Border co-creator Janet MacLean was also nominated -- though not for The Border. She snagged a writing nomination for Murdoch Mysteries. And believe it or not, I actually did MISS the first time through that I scored a nom for Across The River To Motor City, along with my collaborators Robert Wertheimer and Jocelyn Cornforth. Awesome! Across the River also scored a nomination for Best Dramatic Miniseries. (Although someone seems to have left off the Co-Executive Producer from the Producer names. Shhhurely some mishtake?) David Greene was also recognized for his beautiful DOP work on ATR, too.

There's other stuff in there too that I'm sure shall be pondered over -- like no Comedy writing noms for Mosque or Gas -- wha?

...and I'm also chuffed to see that the great Dmitry Chepovetsky, who will ALWAYS be my Maverick from Top Gun! The Musical, was recognized for his winning and offbeat performance as Nikolai Tesla in an episode of Murdoch Mysteries...

...And Bayo Akinfemi, who made my second Border episode, Family Values, so memorable last year. Would have been nice to see the kid in that ep, Isiah, get a nom, too -- but I have a feeling he'll have plenty of hardware in his future.

Anyway, that's my first impressions. Congrats to Alan McCullogh and Meredith Vuchnich, two writers I know on their Drama series writing nods -- and also Laurie Finstad Khniznik -- who picked up much deserved love for Durham County.

What do you all think?