How the Canadian TV industry pulled off a virus-era locked down, Canadian Screen Awards

By Etan Vlessing IT'S A LIVE TV PRODUCER’S worst nightmare: Take eight months to get the Canadian Screen Awards off the ground, then cancel your in-person, live gala ceremony just before going to air due to a sudden coronavirus pandemic spread, and then be forced to pivot online with entirely preproduced segments. That's what confronted the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television suddenly cast into disarray last March by a world in the grip of a Covid-19 crisis. "You don't make money by cancelling a show two weeks out. It threw us into a bit of a financial panic," Beth...