British Academy Television Awards 2000
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The 2000 British Academy Television Awards
British Academy Television Awards
The British Academy Television Awards are presented in an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts . They have been awarded annually since 1954, and are analogous to the Emmy Awards in the United States.-Background:...

 were held on Sunday May 14, 2000. The ceremony was hosted by Desmond Lynam, aired on ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...

, and took place at the Grosvenor House Hotel
Grosvenor House Hotel
Grosvenor House is a large and luxurious hotel. The iconic Mayfair, London hotel is owned by the Sahara Group. The name has also been licensed to a property in Dubai....

 in Park Lane
Park Lane (road)
Park Lane is a major road in the City of Westminster, in Central London.-History:Originally a country lane running north-south along what is now the eastern boundary of Hyde Park, it became a fashionable residential address from the eighteenth century onwards, offering both views across Hyde Park...

, London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

.

Winners

  • Best Actor
    • Winner: Michael Gambon
      Michael Gambon
      Sir Michael John Gambon, CBE is an Irish actor who has worked in theatre, television and film. A highly respected theatre actor, Gambon is recognised for his roles as Philip Marlowe in the BBC television serial The Singing Detective, as Jules Maigret in the 1990s ITV serial Maigret, and as...

       — Wives & Daughters (BBC1
      BBC One
      BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...

      )
    • Other nominees: Aidan Gillen
      Aidan Gillen
      Aidan Gillen is an Irish stage and screen actor and television presenter. He is known in Ireland for his role in Love/Hate, in the UK for his role in Queer as Folk and in the US for his role in HBO's television series The Wire in which he plays Tommy Carcetti and for his role in Game of Thrones as...

       — Queer as Folk (Channel 4
      Channel 4
      Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...

      ); Pete Postlethwaite
      Pete Postlethwaite
      Peter William "Pete" Postlethwaite, OBE, was an English stage, film and television actor.After minor television appearances including in The Professionals, Postlethwaite's first success came with the film Distant Voices, Still Lives in 1988. He played a mysterious lawyer, Mr...

       — Lost for Words (ITV
      ITV
      ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...

      ); Timothy Spall
      Timothy Spall
      Timothy Leonard Spall, OBE is an English character actor and occasional presenter.-Early life:Spall, the third of four sons, was born in Battersea, London. His mother, Sylvia R. , was a hairdresser, and his father, Joseph L. Spall, was a postal worker...

       — Shooting the Past
      Shooting the Past
      Shooting The Past is a television drama by Stephen Poliakoff, produced by TalkBack Productions for BBC Two and first shown in 1999. It was TalkBack's first drama production, the company being mainly known for its television comedy work...

       (BBC2
      BBC Two
      BBC Two is the second television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It covers a wide range of subject matter, but tending towards more 'highbrow' programmes than the more mainstream and popular BBC One. Like the BBC's other domestic TV and radio...

      )
  • Best Actress
    • Winner: Thora Hird
      Thora Hird
      Dame Thora Hird DBE was an English actress.-Early life and career:Hird was born in the Lancashire seaside town of Morecambe. She first appeared on stage at the age of two months in a play her father was managing...

       — Lost for Words (ITV)
    • Other nominees: Francesca Annis
      Francesca Annis
      Francesca Annis is an English actress, known for her film and television appearances, most recently in the BBC series Wives and Daughters, Cranford, and Deceit.-Early life and education:...

       — Wives & Daughters (BBC1); Lindsay Duncan
      Lindsay Duncan
      Lindsay Vere Duncan, CBE is a Scottish stage, television and film actress. On stage she won two Olivier Awards and a Tony Award for her performance in Les Liaisons dangereuses and Private Lives , and she starred in several plays by Harold Pinter. Her most famous roles on television include:...

       — Shooting the Past (BBC2); Maggie Smith
      Maggie Smith
      Dame Margaret Natalie Smith, DBE , better known as Maggie Smith, is an English film, stage, and television actress who made her stage debut in 1952 and is still performing after 59 years...

       — David Copperfield (BBC1)
  • Best Comedy (Programme or Series)
    • Winner: The League of Gentlemen
      The League of Gentlemen (comedy)
      The League of Gentlemen are a quartet of British dark comedy writers/performers, formed in 1995 by Jeremy Dyson, Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith...

       (BBC
      BBC
      The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

       / BBC2)
    • Other nominees: The Best of Ali G
      Ali G
      Ali G is a satirical fictional character invented and performed by English comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. Originally appearing on Channel 4's Eleven O'Clock show, Ali G is the title character of Channel 4's Da Ali G Show, original episodes of which aired in 2000 and on HBO in 2003–2004, and is the...

       (TalkBack Productions
      Talkback Productions
      Talkback Productions was formed in 1981 by Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones. The company is one of the UK’s leading production companies and part of the RTL Group, a major European broadcast and content company....

       / Channel 4); People Like Us
      People Like Us
      People Like Us is a British comedy programme, a spoof on-location documentary written by John Morton, and starring Chris Langham as Roy Mallard, an inept interviewer...

       (BBC / BBC2); Smack the Pony
      Smack the Pony
      Smack the Pony is a British sketch comedy show that ran from 1999 until 2003 on Channel 4. Its title was intended to sound like a euphemism for female masturbation; the working title was Spot the Pony. The main performers and writers on the show were Fiona Allen, Doon Mackichan and Sally Phillips...

       (TalkBack Productions / Channel 4)
  • Best Comedy Performance
    • Winner: Caroline Aherne
      Caroline Aherne
      Caroline Mary Aherne is an English comedian and BAFTA winning writer and actress, best known for Mrs Merton and The Royle Family.- Background :...

       — The Royle Family
      The Royle Family
      The Royle Family is a popular, BAFTA award-winning television comedy drama produced by Granada Television for the BBC, which ran for three series between 1998 and 2000, and specials from 2006 onwards...

       (BBC1)
    • Other nominees: Dawn French — The Vicar of Dibley
      The Vicar of Dibley
      The Vicar of Dibley is a British sitcom created by Richard Curtis and written for its lead actress, Dawn French, by Curtis and Paul Mayhew-Archer, with contributions from Kit Hesketh-Harvey. It aired from 1994 to 2007...

       (BBC1); Sue Johnston
      Sue Johnston
      Susan "Sue" Johnston, OBE is a BAFTA nominated English actress best known for playing Sheila Grant in the long-running soap opera Brookside , Grace Foley in Waking the Dead from 2000 to 2011 and Barbara Royle in the BBC comedy The Royle Family between 1998 and 2000, and again in 2006, 2008, 2009,...

       — The Royle Family (BBC1); Ricky Tomlinson
      Ricky Tomlinson
      Eric Tomlinson , known by his stage name Ricky Tomlinson, is an English actor and comedian, best known for his roles as Bobby Grant in Brookside, DCI Charlie Wise in Cracker and James "Jim" Royle in The Royle Family....

       — The Royle Family (BBC1)
  • Best Drama Serial
    • Winner: Warriors (BBC / Deep Indigo Productions / BBC1)
    • Other nominees: Births, Marriages and Deaths (Tiger Aspect Productions
      Tiger Aspect Productions
      Tiger Aspect Productions is a British television production company, particularly noted for its situation comedies. Co-founded by producer Peter Bennett-Jones, its productions have included popular hits such as The Vicar of Dibley and Mr. Bean...

       / BBC2); Kid in the Corner (Tiger Aspect Productions / Channel 4); Wives & Daughters (BBC / BBC1)
  • Best Drama Series
    British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series
    The British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series is one of the major categories of the British Academy Television Awards , the primary awards ceremony of the British television industry...

    • Winner: The Cops
      The Cops (TV series)
      The Cops is a British television series made by World Productions for the BBC.The production, set in the fictional town of Stanton in Northern England, was noted for its documentary-style camerawork and uncompromising portrayal of the police force...

       (World Productions
      World Productions
      World Productions is a British television production company, founded in the early 1990s by acclaimed producer Tony Garnett. The company's first major series was the police drama Between The Lines , and throughout the decade they went on to produce a succession of highly successful drama series...

       / BBC2)
    • Other nominees: Cold Feet
      Cold Feet
      Cold Feet is a British comedy-drama television series produced by Granada Television for the ITV network. The series was created and principally written by Mike Bullen as a follow-up to his award-winning 1997 Comedy Premiere of the same name. The storyline follows three couples experiencing the...

       (Granada Television
      Granada Television
      Granada Television is the ITV contractor for North West England. Based in Manchester since its inception, it is the only surviving original ITA franchisee from 1954 and is ITV's most successful....

       / ITV); Playing the Field
      Playing the Field
      Playing the Field is a BBC television drama series following the lives of the Castlefield Blues, a fictitious female football team from South Yorkshire.-Outline:...

       (Tiger Aspect Productions / BBC1); Psychos
      Psychos (TV series)
      Psychos is a six-part British television drama series focusing upon a young medical team and their patients. First broadcast on Channel 4 in 1999, it was written by David Wolstencroft and directed by John McKay and Andy Wilson. It starred Douglas Henshall as Dr...

       (Kudos Film & Television
      Kudos (production company)
      Kudos Film and Television is a British independent film and television production company. It has produced television series for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4, and its productions include Spooks , Hustle, Life on Mars and its spin-off Ashes to Ashes, The Amazing Mrs Pritchard and M.I. High...

       / Channel 4)
  • Best Single Drama
    • Winner: The Murder of Stephen Lawrence (Granada Television / Vanson Productions / ITV)
    • Other nominees: Dockers
      Dockers
      Dockers is a brand of khaki garments from Levi Strauss & Co.Levi Strauss & Co., then specialized in denim, introduced the Dockers brand in 1986. Dockers became a leading brand of business casual clothing for men led by Bob Siegel. In 1987, Dockers introduced a women's line...

       (Parallex Pictures / Initiative Factory / Channel 4); Lost for Words (Yorkshire Television
      Yorkshire Television
      Yorkshire Television, now officially known as ITV Yorkshire and sometimes unofficially abbreviated to YTV, is a British television broadcaster and the contractor for the Yorkshire franchise area on the ITV network...

       / ITV); Sex 'n' Death (Hat Trick Productions
      Hat Trick Productions
      Hat Trick Productions is a British independent production company that produces television programmes, mainly specialising in comedy.-History:...

       / BBC2)
  • Best Soap Opera
    • Winner: EastEnders
      EastEnders
      EastEnders is a British television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985 and continuing to today. EastEnders storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional London Borough of Walford in the East End...

       (BBC / BBC1)
    • Other nominees: Brookside
      Brookside
      Brookside is a defunct British soap opera set in Liverpool, England. The series began on the launch night of Channel 4 on 2 November 1982, and ran for 21 years until 4 November 2003...

       (Mersey Television
      Mersey Television
      Lime Pictures, formerly known as Mersey Television, is a British television production company, founded by producer and writer Phil Redmond in the early 1980s....

       / Channel 4); Coronation Street
      Coronation Street
      Coronation Street is a British soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford. Created by Tony Warren, Coronation Street was first broadcast on 9 December 1960...

       (Granada Television / ITV); Emmerdale
      Emmerdale
      Emmerdale, is a long-running British soap opera set in Emmerdale , a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales. Created by Kevin Laffan, Emmerdale was first broadcast on 16 October 1972...

       (Yorkshire Television / ITV)
  • Best News and Current Affairs Journalism
    • Winner: Coverage of the Kosovo Conflict (BBC / BBC1)
    • Other nominees: Coverage of the Kosovo Conflict (Sky News
      Sky News
      Sky News is a 24-hour British and international satellite television news broadcaster with an emphasis on UK and international news stories.The service places emphasis on rolling news, including the latest breaking news. Sky News also hosts localised versions of the channel in Australia and in New...

       / Sky News); The Paddington Crash
      Ladbroke Grove rail crash
      The Ladbroke Grove Rail Crash was a rail accident which occurred on 5 October 1999 at Ladbroke Grove, London, England. Thirty-one people were killed and more than 520 injured...

       (ITN / Channel 4); Tonight with Trevor McDonald — Interview with the Lawrence
      Stephen Lawrence
      Stephen Lawrence was a black British teenager from Eltham, southeast London, who was stabbed to death while waiting for a bus on the evening of 22 April 1993....

       Suspects (Granada Television / ITV)
  • Best Entertainment Performance
    • Winner: Graham Norton
      Graham Norton
      Graham William Walker, known by his stage name Graham Norton , is an Irish actor, comedian, television presenter and columnist...

       — So Graham Norton
      So Graham Norton
      So Graham Norton is a British television programme, hosted by Irish personality Graham Norton. It ran from 3 July 1998 to 1 March 2002.-Theme:...

       (Channel 4)
    • Other nominees: John Bird
      John Bird (actor)
      John Bird is an English satirist, actor and comedian.-Early life:Born in Bulwell, Nottingham, England, and educated at High Pavement Grammar School, Nottingham, Bird briefly joined the Socialist Party of Great Britain, while still at school...

       and John Fortune
      John Fortune
      John Fortune is a British satirist, comedian writer and actor, best known for his work with John Bird and Rory Bremner on the TV series Bremner, Bird and Fortune. He was educated at Bristol Cathedral School and King's College, Cambridge, where he was to meet and form a lasting friendship with John...

       — Bremner, Bird and Fortune
      Bremner, Bird and Fortune
      Bremner, Bird and Fortune is an award-winning satirical British television programme produced by Vera Productions for Channel Four, uniting the longstanding satirical team of John Bird and John Fortune with the satirical impressionist Rory Bremner.The show started in 1999. The fourteenth series...

       (Channel 4); Sacha Baron Cohen
      Sacha Baron Cohen
      Sacha Noam Baron Cohen is an English stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and voice artist. He is most widely known for his portrayal of three unorthodox fictional characters: Ali G, Borat, and Brüno...

       — The 11 O'Clock Show (Channel 4); Michael Parkinson
      Michael Parkinson
      Sir Michael Parkinson, CBE is an English broadcaster, journalist and author. He presented his interview programme, Parkinson, from 1971 to 1982 and from 1998 to 2007.- Early life :...

       — Parkinson
      Parkinson (TV series)
      Parkinson is a British television talk show that was presented by Sir Michael Parkinson. It was first shown on the BBC from 1971 to 2004, and on ITV from 2004 to 2007.-Background:...

       (BBC1)
  • Best Factual Series or Strand
    • Winner: The Mayfair Set
      The Mayfair Set
      The Mayfair Set is a series of programmes produced by Adam Curtis for the BBC, first broadcast in the summer of 1999.The programme looked at how buccaneer capitalists of hot money were allowed to shape the climate of the Thatcher years, focusing on the rise of Colonel David Stirling, Jim Slater,...

       (BBC / BBC2)
    • Other nominees: Manhunt - The Search for the Yorkshire Ripper (Ray Fitzwalter Associates / ITV); The Second World War in Colour (TWI / Carlton Television
      Carlton Television
      Carlton Television was the ITV franchise holder for London and the surrounding counties including the cities of Solihull and Coventry of the West Midlands, south Suffolk, middle and east Hampshire, Oxfordshire, south Bedfordshire, south Northamptonshire, parts of Herefordshire & Worcestershire,...

       / ITV); Shanghai Vice (River Film Productions / Channel 4)
  • Best Feature
    • Winner: Blood on the Carpet (BBC / BBC2)
    • Other nominees: Giants with Nigel Marven (United Productions / HTV West / ITV); Grand Designs
      Grand Designs
      Grand Designs is a British television series produced by Talkback Thames and broadcast on Channel 4 which features unusual and often elaborate architectural home-building projects....

       (TalkBack Productions / Channel 4); The Naked Chef (Optomen
      Optomen
      Optomen is an independent television production company with Optomen Television Ltd. for the United Kingdom and Optomen Productions Inc. launched in 2002 for the United States.-United Kingdom and the United States:...

       / BBC2)
  • Flaherty Award for Single Documentary
    • Winner: True Stories
      True Stories
      True Stories may refer to:* True Stories , a 1986 film by Talking Heads frontman David Byrne* True Stories , a 1986 Talking Heads album featuring songs from the film...

       — Divorce Iranian Style (20th Century Vixen Productions / Channel 4)
    • Other nominees: Gulag (BBC / BBC2); True Stories — Kosovo - The Valley (Mentorn Barraclough Carey Productions / Channel 4); Malcolm and Barbara - A Love Story (Granada Television / ITV)
  • Huw Wheldon Award for Best Arts Programme or Series
    • Winner: This is Modern Art
      This is Modern Art
      This Is Modern Art was a six-part TV series written and presented by the English art critic Matthew Collings. It was broadcast in 1998 on Channel 4.The series won several awards including a BAFTA...

       (Oxford TV Company / Channel 4)
    • Other nominees: The Abba Story (Iambic Productions
      Iambic Productions
      Iambic Productions Limited is an independent television production company specializing in the fields of music, arts and drama founded by producer Chris Hunt in 1988...

       / ITV); Hitchcock (Reputations) Alfred the Great / Alfred the Auteur (BBC / BBC2); The Hip Hop Years
      The Hip Hop Years
      The Hip Hop Years is a 3-part series of one hour television documentaries made for Channel 4 in 1999.The series was devised by David Upshal who produced, directed and narrated the series...

       (RDF
      RDF Media
      Zodiak Media is a Anglo-American television production company. It was formed in 2010 when RDF Media Group was acquired by, and merged with Zodiak Entertainment...

       / Channel 4)
  • Entertainment Programme or Series
    • Winner: Robbie the Reindeer: Hooves of Fire
      Robbie the Reindeer
      Robbie the Reindeer is a series of three animated comedy television specials shown on BBC One at Christmas, filmed in aid of Comic Relief. Written by Kevin Cecil and Andy Riley, the programmes are based on the story of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, with Robbie as Rudolph's son and the tenth of...

       (BBC / BBC1)
    • Other nominees: Have I Got News For You
      Have I Got News for You
      Have I Got News for You is a British television panel show produced by Hat Trick Productions for the BBC. It is based loosely on the BBC Radio 4 show The News Quiz, and has been broadcast since 1990, currently the BBC's longest-ever running television panel show...

       (Hat Trick Productions / BBC2); Robot Wars
      Robot Wars (TV series)
      Robot Wars is a British game show modelled on a US-based competition of the same name. It was broadcast on BBC Two from 1998 until 2003, with its final series broadcast on Five in 2003 and 2004. Additional series were filmed for specific sectors of the global market, including two series of Robot...

       (Mentorn Barraclough Carey Productions / BBC2); So Graham Norton (United Productions / Channel 4)
  • Situation Comedy Award
    • Winner: The Royle Family (Granada Television / BBC1)
    • Other nominees: Dinnerladies
      Dinnerladies
      Dinnerladies is a British sitcom written, co-produced by and starring Victoria Wood. It ran on BBC One for 16 episodes from 1998 to 2000.-Plot:...

       (Pozzitive TV / Good Fun
      Good Fun
      Good Fun is a play by Victoria Wood, first performed in 1980. It is set in an Arts Centre in North West England.-Origins:Wood, keen to trade on her previous stage success Talent, was commissioned to write another play by impresario Michael Codron. "I wrote one called Pals, which he said was 'very...

       / BBC1); Spaced
      Spaced
      Spaced is a British television sitcom written by and starring Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson, and directed by Edgar Wright. It is noted for its rapid-fire editing, frequent pop culture references and jokes, eclectic music, and occasional displays of surrealism and non-sequitur humour...

       (Paramount UK
      Paramount Pictures
      Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is also the last major film studio still...

       / London Weekend Television
      London Weekend Television
      London Weekend Television was the name of the ITV network franchise holder for Greater London and the Home Counties including south Suffolk, middle and east Hampshire, Oxfordshire, south Bedfordshire, south Northamptonshire, parts of Herefordshire & Worcestershire, Warwickshire, east Dorset and...

       / Channel 4); The Vicar of Dibley (Tiger Aspect Productions / BBC1)
  • Sport
    • Winner: Test Cricket
      Test cricket
      Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...

       (Sunset & Vine Productions / Channel 4)
    • Other nominees: Interactive Live Football (Sky Sports
      Sky Sports
      Sky Sports is the brand name for a group of sports-oriented television channels operated by the UK and Ireland's main satellite pay-TV company, British Sky Broadcasting. Sky Sports is the dominant subscription television sports brand in the United Kingdom and Ireland...

       / Sky Sports Extra); Formula One 1999
      1999 Formula One season
      The 1999 Formula One season was the 50th FIA Formula One World Championship season. It commenced on March 7, 1999, and ended on October 31 after sixteen races. The season saw the introduction of a new event to the World Championship calendar, the Malaysian Grand Prix...

       (Mach1 / ITV); The Open Golf Championship 1999
      The Open Championship
      The Open Championship, or simply The Open , is the oldest of the four major championships in professional golf. It is the only "major" held outside the USA and is administered by The R&A, which is the governing body of golf outside the USA and Mexico...

       (BBC / BBC1 / BBC2)
  • Innovation
    • Winner: Walking with Dinosaurs
      Walking with Dinosaurs
      Walking with Dinosaurs is a six-part documentary television miniseries that was produced by BBC, narrated by Kenneth Branagh, and first aired in the United Kingdom, in 1999. The series was subsequently aired in North America on the Discovery Channel in 2000, with Branagh's voice replaced with that...

       (BBC / BBC1)
    • Other nominees: The 1900 House
      The 1900 House
      The 1900 House is a historical reality television programme made by Wall to Wall/Channel 4 in 1999. The show is about a modern family that tries to the live in the way of the late Victorians in 1900 for three months in a modified house...

       (Wall to wall television / Channel 4); The League of Gentlemen (BBC / BBC2); Tina Goes Shopping (Blast! TV / Channel 4)
  • Lew Grade Audience Award as voted by readers of Radio Times
    Radio Times
    Radio Times is a UK weekly television and radio programme listings magazine, owned by the BBC. It has been published since 1923 by BBC Magazines, which also provides an on-line listings service under the same title...

    , with listeners of the Jonathan Ross
    Jonathan Ross (television presenter)
    Jonathan Stephen Ross, OBE is an English television and radio presenter, best known for presenting the BBC One chat show Friday Night with Jonathan Ross from 2001 until he left the BBC in 2010. Ross began hosting a new chat show on ITV1 starting 3 September 2011...

     Show on BBC Radio 2
    BBC Radio 2
    BBC Radio 2 is one of the BBC's national radio stations and the most popular station in the United Kingdom. Much of its daytime playlist-based programming is best described as Adult Contemporary or AOR, although the station is also noted for its specialist broadcasting of other musical genres...

     and viewers of GMTV
    GMTV
    GMTV was the national Channel 3 breakfast television contractor, broadcasting in the United Kingdom from 1 January 1993 to 3 September 2010. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of ITV plc. in November 2009. Shortly after, ITV plc announced the programme would end...

    • Winner: A Touch of Frost
      A Touch of Frost (TV series)
      A Touch of Frost is a television detective series produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV from 1992 until 2010, initially based on the Frost novels by R. D. Wingfield....

       (ITV)
    • Other nominees: Dinnerladies (BBC1); Ground Force
      Ground Force
      Ground Force was a British garden makeover television series originally broadcast by the BBC between 1997 and 2005. The series was originally hosted by Alan Titchmarsh, Charlie Dimmock and Tommy Walsh and was produced by Endemol for the BBC.-Production:...

       (BBC1); The Vicar of Dibley (BBC1); Walking with Dinosaurs (BBC1)
  • The Dennis Potter
    Dennis Potter
    Dennis Christopher George Potter was an English dramatist, best known for The Singing Detective. His widely acclaimed television dramas mixed fantasy and reality, the personal and the social. He was particularly fond of using themes and images from popular culture.-Biography:Dennis Potter was born...

     Award
    • Tony Marchant
  • The Alan Clarke
    Alan Clarke
    Alan Clarke was a television and film director, producer and writer, born in Wallasey, Merseyside, England.Most of Clarke's output was for television rather than cinema, including work for the famous play strands The Wednesday Play and Play for Today...

     Award
    • Peter Kosminsky
      Peter Kosminsky
      Peter Kosminsky is a British writer, director and producer. He has directed Hollywood movies such as White Oleander and television films like Warriors, The Government Inspector and The Promise.- Biography :...

  • Special Award
    • The Avengers
      The Avengers (TV series)
      The Avengers is a spy-fi British television series set in the 1960s Britain. The Avengers initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed . Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants...

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