CTV leads the race for best TV movie with four-out-of-five noms, while CBC has the market cornered as broadcaster of both nominated miniseries.
When it comes to ratings, CTV wins hands down in the TV movie category, with two million viewers (a record for English-Canadian MOWs) for the drama Eight Days to Live (aired May 28, 2006 at 9 p.m.), starring Canadian-born Kelly Rowan (The O.C.) in this Shaftesbury Films picture about a mother’s search for her missing son after a car accident in the B.C. mountains.
BEST TV MOVIE
Doomstown (CTV) 730,000 viewers
(Sarrazin Couture Entertainment)
Producers: Pierre Sarrazin, Suzette Couture, Susan Murdoch
Eight Days to Live (CTV) 2 million viewers
(Shaftesbury Films)
Producers: Christina Jennings, Scott Garvie, Ken Gord, Graham Ludlow, Laurie McLarty, Virginia Rankin, Kelly Rowan
In God’s Country (CTV) 1.6 million viewers
(Shaftesbury Films)
Producers: Christina Jennings, Scott Garvie, Robert Green, Julie Lacey, Graham Ludlow, Laurie McLarty, Kelly Rowan, Paul Stephens
Last Exit (CTV) 767,000 viewers
(Production Last Exit, Forum Films, Foundry Films)
Producers: Richard Lalonde, Daniel Iron
The Robber Bride (CBC) 535,000 viewers
(Shaftesbury Films, Working Title Television)
Producers: Christina Jennings, Brian Dennis, Scott Garvie, Julia Stannard, Simon Wright
BEST DRAMATIC MINISERIES
Answered By Fire (CBC) 228,000 viewers
(Muse Entertainment Enterprises,
Beyond Simpson Le Mesurier, Terra Rossa Pictures)
Producers: Michael Prupas, Roger Le Mesurier, Barbara Samuels, Roger Simpson, Andrew Walker
Dragon Boys (CBC) 400,000 viewers
(Anchor Point Pictures)
Producers: Michael Chechik, Howard Dancyger, Ian Weir