The U.K. and Canada are leading the pack at this year’s Interactive Emmy Awards, scoring four nominations each for titles including the BBC’s Level Up and Bravo!FACT’s Shorts in Motion. Both titles are up for best interactive program, a category rounded out by Zimmer Twins, a child-friendly site by Toronto’s Zinc Roe Design, and the ReGenesis Extended Reality Game, a spinoff of The Movie Network/Movie Central series by Xenophile Media.

Bite Television, also from Canada, is up for best interactive channel against the U.K.’s Movies Now by Video Networks and Win Win TV from Two Way Media.

The nomination for Xenophile follows a March 11 win at SXSW in Austin, TX, where the Toronto shop took the music-and-media festival’s best experimental award for its Fallen Alternate Reality game.

Rounding out the Emmy categories, BBCi is up for best interactive TV service, along with Australia’s BigPond download center, Sport 1 iTV in the Netherlands and the U.K., and Israel’s Xrace.

Nominations for the second annual honors were announced earlier this week by the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. ‘We are very pleased to be recognizing these nominees for their outstanding achievements,’ said president and CEO Bruce Paisner in a statement, adding that the Academy will also award a special Pioneer Prize to the U.K.’s BSkyB for its ‘innovative efforts in the field of interactive television.’

The awards will be presented on April 18 in Cannes, during MIPTV, by host and Desperate Housewives star Roger Bart.