Real Bosse at the Gemeaux Awards in September, 2012, after winning as best actor in a drama. Gazette photo by Dario Ayala.
The most buzzed-about scripted series of the past Quebecois TV season, 19-2, nabbed the most Gémeaux nominations. The nominations for les Gémeaux – the Quebec TV awards – were unveiled at a press conference on Thursday afternoon.
19-2, a gritty cop series that was the most exciting thing on TV in recent months, landed 16 nominations, including for best drama, direction of a drama (Podz), for drama writing (Réal Bossé, Claude Legault, Danielle Dansereau), and both lead actors, Bossé and Legault, were given nods for best actor in a drama.
Notable for their absence from the nominations list are two of the the top shows of the past year chez nous – La Voix, the made-in-Quebec adaptation of The Voice that was the ratings leader by far and Unité 9, the drama set in a women’s prison that generated an enormous amount of discussion. They are nowhere to be seen because their producers have been boycotting the Gémeaux Gala for years. The producer of La Voix is Julie Snyder and the producer of Unité 9 is Fabienne Larouche.
The other leading nominees are: Toute la verité (13 nominations); Mauvais Karma, Mon meilleur ami, and Tu m’aimes-tu (12); Mémoires vives and O (11); and Bye Bye 2012 and Un sur 2 (10).
The 28th annual Gémeaux Gala will be held at Théâtre Maisonneuve on Sunday, Sept. 15, with the ceremony to be broadcast live on Radio-Canada Television (eds. note: Surely you mean ICI Télé?). It will be hosted for the first time by veteran entertainer René Simard.
