‘Cows Come Home’ earns four Canadian Screen Award nominations

Co-creators Lindsey Middleton and Katie Uhlmann told cast and crew Wednesday morning that their Fort Erie-filmed digital series ‘Cows Come Home’ has received four Canadian Screen Award nominations, including Best Series, Directing, Lead Performance and Writing.

The nominations mark the most significant national recognition the production has received since it premiered on Bell Fibe TV1 in June 2025, placing a six-episode comedy shot largely on farms and community properties in Greater Fort Erie into contention alongside Canada’s top scripted television series.

“This recognition for the production as a whole is incredibly meaningful,” Middleton and Uhlmann wrote in an email to collaborators Wednesday, sent before any public announcement. “It truly reflects the work, dedication, and care that each and every one of you brought to this project.”

‘Cows Come Home’ follows two friends who enter the world of competitive cow-showing. Middleton, who grew up in Ridgeway, stars as Tabby Acres alongside her co-creator role. Uhlmann directed the series.

Much of the production filmed at Walnutknoll Dairy Farm in Ridgeway and at I CAN-T.E.R., the Fort Erie therapeutic riding charity whose executive director, Karen van der Zalm, gave up her own bedroom for crew members to rest during the shoot.

That kind of community entanglement–locals opening their homes, farms and tables to a small production–is central to how the show came together and to what Middleton and Uhlmann say they wanted the nominations to honour.

“It takes a village to make any creative project come to life, and we would not be here without all of you,” they wrote Wednesday.

Last October, nearly 400 people attended the first of two red carpet screenings at the Meridian Centre for the Arts inside Greater Fort Erie Secondary School, where Mayor Wayne Redekop joined the crowd. A portion of ticket sales from that event supported I CAN-T.E.R.’s fundraising toward a $15,000 operations goal.

The Canadian Screen Awards ceremony is scheduled for the end of May 2026. Middleton and Uhlmann said further details will be shared as they become available.

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