The Tudors, the Fifth Estate, and CBC’s coverage of the Beijing Olympics picked up a bunch of hardware at the Gemini industry galas on Monday and Tuesday nights.

The CBC’s coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympics lead the way with five awards, including best live sporting event, best analysis, best feature, best play-by-play and best reporting.

The Fifth Estate also won four awards for best writing, best direction, best host and best news information series in an information program.

The Tudors won four Gemini awards. The historical drama about the life and times of Henry the VIII won for best photography, best editing, best production design and best sound in a dramatic series.

The Tudors is a CBC co-production between Peace Arch Entertainment, Reveille Eire in Ireland, Working Title Films in the United Kingdom and the CBC. The show is shot in Ireland, with most of the post-production work done in Canada.

The industry event, held over two nights in Toronto, celebrated the best Canadian youth, comedy, drama, variety, news, sports, documentary and lifestyle television. The rest of the awards will be presented on November 14th in Calgary.

The full list of awards associated with the CBC is after the jump. Let me know if I’ve missed any.

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	Olympic Games, The Fifth Estate, The Tudors	Posted at 11:59 am (21 Oct 2009)

Journalists at the CBC and other media outlets are conducting a “vendetta” against former prime minister Brian Mulroney, said Mulroney Monday.

“Twelve years [after initial allegations regarding the Airbus controversy first appeared], the same people at the CBC and certain other people in the media who were at the origin of the 1995 accusations, are still conducting their vendetta.”

Mulroney wants the federal government to drop the independent review of allegations he faces and proceed immediately to a full-blown public inquiry into the matter.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Friday that he would appoint an independent adviser to review allegations in an affidavit by German-Canadian businessman Karlheinz Schreiber that include a claim that while Mulroney was still in office, the two struck a deal for the former prime minister to be paid $300,000 after he left public life.

the fifth estate aired a comprehensive documentary earlier this month with new information about controversy.

You can watch the video here.

Did you see the show? What did you think of it?

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	The Fifth Estate	Posted at 12:02 am (13 Nov 2007)

A team of CBC journalists who conducted an investigation into the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. have been awarded the Consumers’ Association of Canada’s top prize. A team of reporters from The Fifth Estate questioned the suspicious number of retailers and clerks who have won lotteries.

The investigation revealed that in the past seven years Ontario clerks and retailers have claimed lottery victories nearly 200 times. University of Toronto statistician Jeffery Rosenthal said the number should have been closer to 57.

More at cbc.ca.

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	Awards, The Fifth Estate	Posted at 12:44 am (13 Feb 2007)