The Canadian Screen Award for Best Casting in a Television Series is an annual award, presented by the

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as part of its annual

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program, to honour the year's best

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work in television. The award was presented for the first time at the

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in 2006. It is separate from the

Canadian Screen Award for Best Casting in a Film The Canadian Screen Award for Best Casting in a Film is an annual award, presented as part of the Canadian Screen Awards program to honour the year's best Casting (performing arts), casting in Canadian theatrical films. It is presented separately fr ...

, which was presented for the first time at the

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in 2021. Until the

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gained a nomination. The Academy has since announced that beginning with the

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in 2022, two separate awards will be presented for casting in scripted and reality programming.

2000s

2010s

References

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Casting Casting is a manufacturing process in which a liquid material is usually poured into a mold, which contains a hollow cavity of the desired shape, and then allowed to solidify. The solidified part is also known as a ''casting'', which is ejected ...

Casting awards