The U.K. leads the race going into this year’s Rockie Awards with 37 nominations, followed by Canada and the U.S., with 28 and 25, respectively.

Nominees for the annual Banff World Television Festival Awards include such notable British titles as the BBC political doc Age of Terror and the Channel 4 comedy Fonejacker, and Canuck programs including Little Mosque on the Prairie and The Score’s Cabbie All Stars.

Canada has swept the nominations for one of the new Rockie categories, with three of the four nods for sports entertainment programming. CBC’s Hockey Day in Canada and Countdown to Beijing are up for the prize, along with Cabbie All Stars, an irreverent interview series. The awards have also added a best sports documentary program.

Canada also dominates cartoons, with four shows nominated in the animation category including the Oscar-nominated short

I Met the Walrus, Studio B Productions’ Kit vs. Kat and Cuppa Coffee Studios’ Life’s a Zoo.tv ‘2D or Not 2D’.

Cuppa Coffee and its Zoo franchise scored a second nomination in the music/variety category for the episode ‘Dr D Plays House’. The stop-motion show, which airs on Teletoon, is a spoof on reality television and features original songs.