It’s an exciting night for Canadian Film and Television as we celebrate the inaugural Canadian Screen Awards – and The Televixen will be liveblogging it for you right here as well as tweeting all of the happenings from the press lounge!
So many of your small screen faves are going to be here, including Arrow‘s Stephen Amell, Bomb Girls‘ Meg Tilly Sons of Anarchy‘s Kim Coates, Flashpoint‘s Enrico Colantoni and Republic of Doyle‘s Allan Hawco!
You can watch live on CBC in Canada starting at 8pm, and follow along with us here or via the Twitter feed @thetelevixen!
6:50pm Some TV awards were already handed out this past Thursday in the Drama, Children’s or Youth, Comedy and Variety categories, and there were winners from Bomb Girls, Republic of Doyle, Continuum, Call Me Fitz, Saving Hope, Flashpoint, Todd and the Book of Pure Evil, Degrassi, The Borgias and Being Human! You can read the complete list here!
7:42 Stephen Amell and Catherine O’Hara have presented the first film award of the broadcast to James Cromwell.
7:45 Best Actress in a comedy goes to Wendel Meldrum for Less Than Kind. Her character was so fantastic on that series.
7:58 Gerry Dee just snagged the Best Actor in a Comedy for Mr. D (one of my personal fave series).
8:08 Comedy winners Gerry Dee and Wendel Meldrum are in the press room chatting with the media and Laura Vandervoort is on stage presenting Best Documentary with James Cromwell. The energy in here is amazing – so much excitement and love the huge smiles on the winners’ faces!
8:21 Meg Tilly has won for Bomb Girls! Resisting the urge to jump up and down and cheer. She is such a gem and her performance on the series is phenomenal!
8:23 Allan Hawco is now on stage presenting for Best Director Film – and he’s in a smashing striped suit!
8:33 Sons of Anarchy‘s Kim Coates just presented the Best Actor in a Drama to Enrico Colantoni for Flashpoint! Talk about fandoms colliding … how many of my friends out there are as thrilled as I am right now?!?
8:47 Meg Tilly is now presenting along with Rick Mercer. Hopefully she’ll be down here to chat with the press shortly afterward.
8:57 Best Drama Series has gone to Flashpoint! Way to end the night on such a high note.
That wraps our liveblog. Thanks for joining us, and stay tuned to the Twitter feed for some more pics!
