The Canadian Screen Award for Best Casting in a Television Series is an annual award, presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television as part of its annual Canadian Screen Award program, to honour the year's best casting work in television.
The award was presented for the first time at the 21st Gemini Awards in 2006. It is separate from the Canadian Screen Award for Best Casting in a Film, which was presented for the first time at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2021.
Until the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020, the nominees and winners were exclusively narrative fiction series or television films; in that year, for the first time a reality show gained a nomination. The Academy has since announced that beginning with the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022, two separate awards will be presented for casting in scripted and reality programming.
| Year | Casting director(s) | Series |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 [1] 21st Gemini Awards | ||
| Jenny Lewis, Sara Kay | Heyday! | |
| Marsha Chesley | This Is Wonderland : "Episode 308" | |
| Robin D. Cook, Rosina Bucci | One Dead Indian | |
| Carmen Kotyk | Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story | |
| Marjorie Lecker, Donna Rae Gibbs, Sheila Lane | Canada Russia '72 | |
| 2007 [2] 22nd Gemini Awards | ||
| Melissa Perry, Lynne Carrow | Intelligence : "Dante's Inferno" | |
| Deirdre Bowen | ReGenesis : "A Spontaneous Moment" | |
| John Buchan | In God's Country | |
| Susan Forrest, Sharon Forrest | Shades of Black: The Conrad Black Story | |
| Jenny Lewis, Sara Kay | Rent-a-Goalie | |
| 2008 23rd Gemini Awards | ||
| Carmen Kotyk | The Englishman's Boy | |
| Deirdre Bowen | Murdoch Mysteries | |
| Susan Forrest, Rhonda Fisekci | Menace | |
| Jenny Lewis, Sara Kay | Rent-a-Goalie | |
| Randi Wells, Wendy O'Brien, Andrea Kenyon | Durham County : "What Lies Beneath" | |
| 2009 24th Gemini Awards | ||
| Marsha Chesley | The Line | |
| Susan Forrest, Sharon Forrest, Jim Heber | Less Than Kind : "The Daters" | |
| Andrea Kenyon, Randi Wells, Wendy O'Brien, Marissa Richmond | Durham County | |
| Marissa Richmond | Flashpoint | |
| Matt Wells | Where You At, Baby? |
| Year | Casting director(s) | Series |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 25th Gemini Awards | ||
| John Buchan, Jason Knight | The Summit | |
| Deirdre Bowen | Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures : "All Souls" | |
| Stephanie Gorin | Guns | |
| Marissa Richmond, Randi Wells, Wendy O'Brien, Andrea Kenyon | Durham County : "Little Lost Children" | |
| Marissa Richmond | Flashpoint : "Perfect Storm" | |
| 2011 [3] 26th Gemini Awards | ||
| Randi Wells, Suzanne Smith, Marissa Richmond, Libby Goldstein, Andrea Kenyon | Durham County : "Distance, Hunting and Home" | |
| Marsha Chesley | Living in Your Car : "Chapter 2" | |
| Jim Heber, Jenny Lewis, Sara Kay | Todd and the Book of Pure Evil : "How to Make a Homunculus" | |
| Lisa Parasyn, Jon Comerford | Lost Girl : "Vexed" | |
| Marissa Richmond | Flashpoint : "Jumping at Shadows" | |
| 2012 [4] 1st Canadian Screen Awards | ||
| Sara Kay, Jim Heber, Jenny Lewis | Todd and the Book of Pure Evil : "B.Y.O.B.O.P.E." | |
| Jon Comerford, Lisa Parasyn | Lost Girl : "Barometz. Trick. Pressure" | |
| Rhonda Fisekci | Blackstone : "Forgiveness" | |
| Lisa Parasyn, Jon Comerford | The Yard : "The Economy" | |
| Sherry Thomas, Sara Kay, Jenny Lewis, Sharon Bialy | The Firm : "Pilot" | |
| 2013 [5] 2nd Canadian Screen Awards | ||
| Lisa Parasyn, Jon Comerford | Bomb Girls : "Guests of Honour" | |
| Sharon Forrest, Susan Forrest | Rookie Blue : "Friday the 13th" | |
| Sharon Forrest, Susan Forrest | Saving Hope : "I Watch Death" | |
| Jim Heber, Susan Forrest | Less Than Kind : "Fight and Flight" | |
| Marissa Richmond | Flashpoint : "Fit for Duty" | |
| 2014 [6] 3rd Canadian Screen Awards | ||
| Sharon Forrest, Susan Forrest | Orphan Black : "Governed by Sound Reason and True Religion" | |
| Deirdre Bowen, Pam Dixon | Sensitive Skin : "The Three Sisters" | |
| Tina Gerussi, Sheila Lane | Mr. D : "Parent Teacher Night" | |
| Jenny Lewis, Sara Kay | The Best Laid Plans | |
| Lisa Parasyn, Jon Comerford | Lost Girl : "In Memoriam" | |
| 2015 [7] 4th Canadian Screen Awards | ||
| Robin D. Cook, Andrea Kenyon, Randi Wells, Marissa Richmond | 19-2 : "School" | |
| Tina Gerussi, Sheila Lane | Mr. D : "Coach of the Year" | |
| Jenny Lewis, Sara Kay | Bitten : "Hell's Teeth" | |
| Jackie Lind | Strange Empire : "The Whiskey Trader" | |
| Maureen Webb, Colleen Bolton | Motive : "Six Months Later" | |
| 2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards [8] | ||
| Deirdre Bowen, Millie Tom | Kim's Convenience : "Frank & Nayoung" | |
| Deirdre Bowen, Frank Moiselle, Nuala Moiselle | Vikings : "Yol" | |
| Denise Chamain, Sara Kay, Jenny Lewis, Danielle Irvine | Frontier : "A Kingdom Unto Itself" | |
| Jenny Lewis, Sara Kay | Letterkenny : "Rave" | |
| Lisa Parasyn, Jon Comerford | Schitt's Creek : "Bob's Bagels" | |
| 2017 [9] 6th Canadian Screen Awards | ||
| Jon Comerford, Lisa Parasyn | Cardinal | |
| Deirdre Bowen | Kim's Convenience | |
| Susan Forrest, Sharon Forrest | Mary Kills People | |
| Jenny Lewis, Sara Kay | Letterkenny | |
| Stephanie Gorin | Anne with an E | |
| 2018 [10] 7th Canadian Screen Awards | ||
| Jenny Lewis, Sara Kay | Letterkenny | |
| Jon Comerford, Lisa Parasyn | Cardinal: Blackfly Season | |
| Jon Comerford, Lisa Parasyn | Schitt's Creek | |
| Sharon Forrest, Susan Forrest | Mary Kills People | |
| Frank Moiselle, Nuala Moiselle, Deirdre Bowen | Vikings | |
| 2019 [11] 8th Canadian Screen Awards | ||
| Lisa Parasyn, Jon Comerford | Schitt's Creek | |
| Deirdre Bowen | Kim's Convenience | |
| Susan Forrest, Sharon Forrest | Mary Kills People | |
| Stephanie Gorin | Anne with an E | |
| Michael Yerxa, Jesse Storey | The Amazing Race Canada |
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