''Design Interns'' is a Canadian reality television series, which aired on

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in 2006.Carolyn Leitch, "Swatches, paint chips and more". '' The Globe and Mail'', November 10, 2006. Hosted by designers Anna Simone and Elaine Cecconi, the series featured 12 young designers competing in various design challenges to win a professional internship at the hosts' design firm Cecconi Simone. Simone stated that she had often been frustrated by home renovation and design television shows depicting "renovations that are achieved in impossibly short times for impossibly small amounts of money", and said she decided to work on the series because she wanted to show that the job was much more complex and challenging than many viewers thought it was. The show premiered on October 3, 2006. It was won by Cynthia Soda, a designer from

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. The series was a

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nominee for

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at the

22nd Gemini Awards The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television's 22nd Gemini Awards were held on October 28, 2007, to honour achievements in Canadian television. The awards show, which was hosted by George Stroumboulopoulos, took place at the Conexus Arts Centre in ...

in 2007.David George-Cosh, "Mosque snubbed for top TV award". '' The Globe and Mail'', August 29, 2007.

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