You can find coverage of all the winners here. Great night for Durham County -- well deserved.
Random thoughts in no particular order:
- The best, most dramatic parts of the night -- and the best story, of course -- came before the televised portion. Cock'd Gunns, a small budget show produced for IFC, walked away with statues for Best Comedy Writing, and Best Comedy Ensemble. Having seen a couple eps of the show, I agree that it's pretty fresh and it's great to see new people doing something that's worthy of recognition -- even though in my heart of hearts, I think that Comedy Ensemble award belonged to Rent-A-Goalie this year. Cheekiest line from the stage was on this award too, "Showcase, let's talk season two." An out of nowhere win for a small show like that could have been a great human interest story. But it wasn't in the broadcast. So it didn't exist.
- How sad to see the final resting place of Intelligence. A win for best series, no one there to collect, more than a year after it went off the air. Heard after: "Why do we always give the award to the show that was canceled?" Good point. Still, it's sad to see a worthy show go out with a whimper.
- It was a great on-air moment, but really, at this point, what is the point of awarding statues for Best News Anchor and Best Sports Anchor on air? Ron MacLean's won a dozen times. Ian Hanomansing admits that it's Peter Mansbridge's award, but others only get to hold it every once in a while. CTV refuses to even participate. Isn't it time to think about separating out the news awards and figuring out how to not make them so crazy-CBC biased? Or do we not care about credibility at all anymore?
- Best Drama Series and Best Dramatic Miniseries don't have to compete against each other. How are you supposed to judge 22 Minutes or Mercer against scripted comedy fare? Why are these things in the same category? Don't we have enough in terms of Variety shows or Comedy specials to make that category competative for shows that are sketch based, and let Comedy series be judged separately? The mismatch of other genres is the same thing. I'm very sympathetic to someone who has to do costumes, for instance, for a 13 part series being judged against someone who had a budget for one 2 hour film. They're just not comparable.
- The Craft vs. "Big" Awards. Which are which? I don't understand how you build recognition for actors -- the pretty people -- if you present half of their awards out of the broadcast times. Especially in the case of things like Best Supporting -- where you might actually get new faces to watch in years to come. (Or in the year and a half before they give up and go to the USA.) And finally, why in heaven's name would you present all the writing awards but Best Comedy Writing in October, and then bump Best Comedy Writing out of the Broadcast in November?
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Joy and sadness all at once indeed re: Intelligence, Denis. This show deserved better, as too many of us know. The one consolation to be had is in that too-distant hope evoked by Kreskin's prediction, joke or not.
Yes, I know the odds. May it become true anyway.
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