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ACT Announces Awards of Excellence Nods

The Alliance for Children and Television (ACT) will honor Canada's top English language children's and youth programs at the 2007 Awards of Excellence Gala on May 31, 2007, at CBC's Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto. The gala will be co-hosted by much-loved Kids' CBC host Patty Sullivan and Sid Bobb, who will also be joining Kids' CBC in the fall.

During the evening, the ACT will also award the Grand Prize for Best Program, All Categories; the Outstanding Achievement Award; the Special Jury Award; and the Emerging Talent Award to a person 30 or younger who demonstrates exceptional talent and promise in the children's and youth programming industry. The members of the 2007 Awards of Excellence jury used ACT's definition of quality to select the winning entries. The nominees include:

All Genres 3-5 THIS IS EMILY YEUNG WILBUR FOUR SQUARE

All Genres 9-12 GHOST TRACKERS THE SNOW QUEEN PRANK PATROL MYSTERY HUNTERS NATURALLY SADIE LIFE WITH DEREK ("Male Code Blue") LIFE WITH DEREK ("Battle of the Bands")

All Genres Teens renegadepress.com ("Dying to Connect") renegadepress.com ("The Rez") DEGRASSI: THE NEXT GENERATION INSTANT STAR STREET CENTS THE MORGAN WATERS SHOW BLACK HOLE HIGH IV DARK ORACLE II

Animation 3-5 HARRY AND HIS BUCKET FULL OF DINOSAURS DRAGON PEEP AND THE BIG WIDE WORLD MISS SPIDER'S SUNNY PATCH FRIEND BACKYARDIGANS TOOPY AND BINOO POKO LUNAR JIM FRANNY'S FEET GERALD MCBOING BOING CAILLOU

Animation 6-8 ERKY PERKY JACOB TWO-TWO IF THE WORLD WERE A VILLAGE GROSSOLOGY JANE AND THE DRAGON CAPTAIN FLAMINGO ATOMIC BETTY CHRISTMAS SPECIAL PLANET SKETCH THE AMAZING ADRENALINI BROTHERS ARTHUR THROUGH MY THICK GLASSES

Animation 9-14 RUBY GLOOM 6TEEN CARL SQUARED SKYLAND TOTALLY SPIES CLASS OF THE TITANS BEING IAN WEIRD YEARS

Interstitial Kid's CBC Coach Callous Crunch ZAPX The Zone Zimmer Twins Walter Reading Rangers Tigga and Togga Gisele's Big Backyard I Dare You Roll Play

Best Website or Original New-Platform Content Tied Into a Children's Programwww.carlsquared.com www.skylandtv.com www.tiggaandtogga.com www.thisisemilyyeung.com www.tvokids.com/framesets/play.html?game=175 www.toopyandbinoo.com www.planetsketch.com www.cbc.ca/theoutlet www.zimmertwins.com

ACT's 2007 Awards of Excellence are made possible with the financial support from CBC Television and in addition Corus Ent., 9 Story Ent., TELETOON, TVO Kids, Hit Ent., Decode Ent., the Family Channel, Mercury Filmworks, Studio B Prods., the Bell Fund and the Independent Production Fund. The Alliance for Children and Television is a not-for profit organization whose purpose is to promote children's and youth television productions. For more information, visit www.act-aet.tv/.

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