CityNews Toronto nominated for Canadian Screen Award for best local newscast

CityNews and several Rogers Media personalities have been nominated for Canadian Screen Awards.

CityNews Toronto is nominated for best local newscast, while the #CityVote: The Debate has been nominated for best live news special.

Breakfast Television Toronto is in the running for best talk or entertainment program or series with BT co-host Dina Pugliese nominated for best host in a live program or series.

Cityline’s Tracy Moore has also been nominated for best host in a program or series.

Hockey Night in Canada is hoping to score a hat-trick, with Ron MacLean up for best sports host, Jim Hughson for best sports play by play and Elliotte Friedman for best sports analyst.

Citytv mob drama Bad Blood — about the rise and fall of the Rizzuto crime family — is up for four awards, including best drama series.

The CBC series Anne with an E and Schitt’s Creek are each up for 15 awards.

Anne with an E is nominated for best drama series and best actress for Amybeth McNulty, who stars as the young Prince Edward Island heroine from Lucy Maud Montgomery’s classic novel.

Schitt’s Creek’s nominations include best comedy series and acting nods for the main stars, who play a riches-to-rags family: Eugene Levy, Daniel Levy, Catherine O’Hara and Annie Murphy.

On the film side, the leading contenders are from Quebec — Maxime Giroux’s allegorical drama The Great Darkened Days and Daniel Roby’s disaster thriller Just a Breath Away with eight nominations apiece.

Both are contenders in categories including best picture and best director.

Also in the running for best picture are the post-apocalyptic Genesis directed by Freddie Hutton-Mills, coming-of-age drama A Colony from Genevieve Dulude-De Celles, and Sophie Dupuis’ Montreal crime story Family First.

The awards, which honour Canadian talent in film, television and digital media, will be handed out on March 31.