Once again, Flashpoint is at the top of the Gemini nominations heap.

The Toronto-made series, about police officers on an emergency response team, took 17 of the nominations announced Wednesday morning.

Flashpoint, which airs on CTV here and on CBS in the U.S., has led the pack for every one of its three seasons.

Last year, it had a leading 15 nominations. The year before, it was up for 19 awards and took six, including Best Drama, Best Direction and Best Actor, for Enrico Colantoni.

The show is up for Best Drama again this year. Its competition includes the co-production The Borgias, currently airing on CTV; the Showcase series Endgame; teen drama Skins, which was cancelled after a season on The Movie Network; and another co-production, The Tudors.

The drama about King Henry VIII and his wives won Best Drama at last year’s Geminis. Its fourth and final season aired last fall on CBC.

Other leading nominees for this year’s awards include new shows Call Me Fitz (HBO Canada), which stars Jason Priestley as a sleazy used car salesman, and Living in Your Car (TMN), about a fallen corporate executive (John Ralston) living in his luxury vehicle.

Both Fitz, with 16 nominations, and Living in Your Car, with 10, are up for Best Comedy. Other nominees include CBC’s 22 Minutes, TMN’s Good Dog, and CBC’s Ha!ifax Comedy Fest 2010 and Rick Mercer Report.

Also receiving 10 nominations, including Best Dramatic Miniseries or TV Movie, were two more co-productions: History Channel’s The Kennedys and TMN’s The Pillars of the Earth.

Colantoni is up for Best Actor in a Drama again this year, along with his Flashpoint castmate Hugh Dillon, for playing a different cop in Durham County. Others in the category include Callum Keith Rennie for Shattered; Michael Riley for Being Erica and Sam Witwer for Being Human.

The nominees for Best Actress in a Drama include past winner Erin Karpluk for Being Erica; Carmen Moore and Michelle Thrush for Blackstone; Krystin Pellerin for Republic of Doyle; Lauren Lee Smith for The Listener and Camille Sullivan for Shattered.

On the comedy side, the Best Actor nominees include Priestley and Ralston; Peter Keleghan for 18 to Life and Chris Leavins for Todd and the Book of Pure Evil.

The female comedy nominees are Angela Asher for 18 to Life; Tracy Dawson and Brooke Nevin for Call Me Fitz; and Grace Lynn Kung for InSecurity.

A full list of nominees can be found at www.GeminiAwards.ca

The 26th annual awards will take place in Toronto over three nights, with technical and other industry awards handed out Aug. 30 and 31, and the main gala on Sept. 7. It will be broadcast live from the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on CBC.