England's Elvis Costello and Scotland's Robert Carlyle invaded the 25th annual Gemini Awards on Saturday night.
The Geminis honour the best in Canadian television.
"Thank you very much, I feel quite Canadian," said Costello, the legendary musician who accepted the best talk series award for CTV's Spectacle, which he hosts.
Carlyle, meanwhile, took home the trophy for best actor in a drama for his role on Stargate Universe, which airs on Space.
"I feel like a stranger in the ranks here tonight," Carlyle said. "But thank you so much, I really value this dearly."
Best drama went to CBC's The Tudors. Best comedy went to HBO Canada's Less Than Kind.
In his acceptance speech for Less Than Kind, show-runner Mark McKinney called the late Maury Chaykin, who played Sam Blecher and passed away last July, "A real angel."
"To his wife and his daughter, we want to say thank you for sharing Maury with us," McKinney said. "Particularly in this past season, it was a privilege to care for him."
The Geminis, which were held at the Winter Garden Theatre in Toronto and broadcast on Global and Showcase, were hosted in affable and energetic fashion by Canadian Cory Monteith of Glee.
The show opened with a taped comedy bit that had Monteith in Los Angeles, phoning random Canadians back home because he was lonely.
Among those reluctantly accepting Monteith's calls were Ron MacLean, Leah Miller and Ron James, before Jason Priestley suggested Monteith should host the Geminis as a cure for homesickness.
In his monologue, Monteith said he asked Geminis organizers if they were sure they didn't want to ask someone with more experience to host.
"They said, 'We did,'" Monteith joked.
Best acceptance speech of the night went to Cle Bennett, who won best supporting actor in a drama for his role in The Line.
"I just want to say quickly, it's ironic that I'm being rewarded for pretending to be a gangster, when so many of my brothers are out there tonight doing this stuff for real, and their reward is prison or the grave," Bennett said.
"To those brothers I just want to say, I know you're mad, I know you're angry, I know you're upset, you're frustrated. I'm not asking you to lose that, I'm asking you to use that.
"Channel it into something positive, put down the guns, take up an acting class or something, whatever inspires you. Just understand, anything's possible, I'm the proof."
Small "oops" moment: In the opening credits announcing who was scheduled to appear on the show, Dan For Mayor's Fred Ewanuick had his name spelled "Ewaniuk."
Hope the same guys aren't doing his campaign signs!
Larger "oops" moment: Not sure if it was the same on all cable and satellite systems, but as we watched the musical performance by Costello, Ron Sexsmith, Feist and Kendel Carson, the ending was cut off.
Certainly, Costello's choice of song - A Slow Drag with Josephine - was a bit odd, but there was no need to go to that extreme.
Nina Dobrev, formerly of Degrassi and currently of The Vampire Diaries, introduced the tribute to Degrassi's 30 years. As a 25th-anniversary exercise, the results of a survey to identify the 25 favourite Canadian TV shows from the past quarter-century were counted down.
Not sure how scientific any of this was, but Degrassi wound up at No. 1, followed by Flashpoint at No. 2 and Mr. Dressup at No. 3.
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