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...
    
     — Perfect Strangers (BBC Two
    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...
    
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  • Other nominees: Alan Bates
    Alan Bates
    Sir Alan Arthur Bates CBE was an English actor, who came to prominence in the 1960s, a time of high creativity in British cinema, when he demonstrated his versatility in films ranging from the popular children’s story Whistle Down the Wind to the "kitchen sink" drama A Kind of Loving...
    
     — Love in a Cold Climate
    Love in a Cold Climate (TV serial)
    Love in a Cold Climate is a British television serial drama produced by the BBC in association with WGBH Boston, and first broadcast in two parts on BBC One on 4 and 11 February 2001...
    
    (BBC One
    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...
    
    ); 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...
    
     — Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise
    Vacuuming Completely Nude In Paradise
    Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise, is one of two TV films directed by Danny Boyle in 2001; the other was Strumpet. A satire on door-to-door salesmen, it features Timothy Spall and Michael Begley in the lead roles.-Cast members:*Katy Cavanagh...
    
    (BBC Two); David Suchet
    David Suchet
    David Suchet, CBE, is an English actor, known for his work on British television. He is recognised for his RTS- and BPG award-winning performance as Augustus Melmotte in the 2001 British TV mini-drama The Way We Live Now, alongside Matthew Macfadyen and Paloma Baeza, and a 1991 British Academy...
    
     — The Way We Live Now
    The Way We Live Now (2001 TV serial)
    The Way We Live Now is a 2001 four-part television adaptation of the novel by Anthony Trollope. The serial was first broadcast on the BBC and was directed by David Yates, written by Andrew Davies and produced by Nigel Stafford-Clark...
    
    (BBC One)
• Best Actress
  • Winner: Julie Walters
    Julie Walters
    Julie Walters, CBE is an English actress and novelist. She came to international prominence in 1983 for Educating Rita, performing in the title role opposite Michael Caine. It was a role she had created on the West End stage and it won her BAFTA and Golden Globe awards for Best Actress...
    
     — My Beautiful Son (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...
    
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  • Other nominees: 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:...
    
     — Perfect Strangers (BBC Two); Sheila Hancock
    Sheila Hancock
    Sheila Cameron Hancock, CBE is an English actress and author.-Early life:Sheila Hancock was born in Blackgang on the Isle of Wight, the daughter of Ivy Louise and Enrico Cameron Hancock, who was a publican. Her sister Billie is seven years older...
    
     — The Russian Bride (ITV); Lesley Sharp
    Lesley Sharp
    Lesley Sharp is an English stage, film and television actress, particularly well known for her variety of British television roles including Clocking Off, Bob & Rose and afterlife.-Early life:...
    
     — Bob and Rose
    Bob and Rose
    Bob & Rose is a British television drama, originally screened in six one-hour episodes on the ITV network in the UK in the autumn of 2001. It was produced for the network by the independent Red Production Company, and was that company's first prime-time drama for the ITV network.Bob & Rose was the...
    
    (ITV)
• Best Comedy (Programme or Series)
  • Winner: The Sketch Show
    The Sketch Show
    The Sketch Show is a British television sketch comedy programme, featuring many leading British comedians. It aired on ITV between 2001 and 2003.A short-lived spinoff of the same title was produced in the United States.- Original line-up :...
    
    (Avalon Television / Baby Cow Productions
    Baby Cow Productions
    Baby Cow Productions Ltd is a UK comedy television production company established in 1999 by Steve Coogan and Henry Normal based in London and Manchester. It has since diversified into radio, animation and film. In 2008, BBC Worldwide bought a 25% stake in the company...
    
     / ITV)
  • Other nominees: BrassEye Special
    Brass Eye
    Brass Eye is a UK television series of satirical spoof documentaries. A series of six aired on Channel 4 in 1997, and a further episode in 2001....
    
    (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
    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...
    
    ); 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...
    
    (Vera Productions / Channel 4); The Kumars at No. 42
    The Kumars at No. 42
    The Kumars at No. 42 was a British television show. It won an International Emmy in 2002 and in 2003. It ran for seven series totalling 53 episodes.-Plot:...
    
    (Hat Trick Productions
    Hat Trick Productions
    Hat Trick Productions is a British independent production company that produces television programmes, mainly specialising in comedy.-History:...
    
     / BBC Two)
• Best Comedy Performance
  • Winner: Ricky Gervais
    Ricky Gervais
    Ricky Dene Gervais is an English comedian, actor, director, radio presenter, producer, musician, and writer.Gervais achieved mainstream fame with his television series The Office and the subsequent series Extras, both of which he co-wrote and co-directed with friend and frequent collaborator...
    
     — The Office (BBC Two)
  • Other nominees: Kathy Burke
    Kathy Burke
    Katherine Lucy Bridget Burke is an English actress, comedienne, playwright and theatre director. She is best known for her portrayals of Perry in the Harry Enfield film Kevin and Perry Go Large, and of Linda La Hughes in the British sitcom Gimme Gimme Gimme...
    
     — Gimme Gimme Gimme (BBC Two); Robert Lindsay
    Robert Lindsay (actor)
    Robert Lindsay is an English actor who is best known for his television work, especially his roles of Wolfie Smith in Citizen Smith, Michael Murray in G.B.H., Captain Sir Edward Pellew in Hornblower and Ben Harper in My Family which has been on television screens since 2000.-Early life:Lindsay was...
    
     — My Family (BBC One); Joanna Lumley
    Joanna Lumley
    Joanna Lamond Lumley, OBE, FRGS is a British actress, voice-over artist, former-model and author, best known for her roles in British television series Absolutely Fabulous portraying Edina Monsoon's best friend, Patsy Stone, as well as parts in The New Avengers, Sapphire & Steel, and Sensitive...
    
     — Absolutely Fabulous
    Absolutely Fabulous
    Absolutely Fabulous, also known as Ab Fab, is a British sitcom created by Jennifer Saunders, based on an original idea by her and Dawn French, and written by Saunders, who plays the leading character. It also stars Joanna Lumley and Julia Sawalha, along with June Whitfield and Jane Horrocks...
    
    (BBC One)
• Best Drama Serial
  • Winner: The Way We Live Now (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...
    
     / WGBH
    WGBH-TV
    WGBH-TV, channel 2, is a non-commercial educational public television station located in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. WGBH-TV is a member station of the Public Broadcasting Service , and produces more than two-thirds of PBS's national prime time television programming...
    
     / Deep Indigo / BBC One)
  • Other nominees: Bob and Rose (Red Production Company
    Red Production Company
    Red Production Company is a British independent television production company, formed in 1998 by Nicola Shindler, an experienced television producer who had worked on such prestige dramas as Our Friends in the North and Cracker...
    
     / ITV); Perfect Strangers (TalkBack Productions / BBC Two); The Russian Bride (Monogram Productions / ITV)
• 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: 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)
  • Other nominees: At Home with the Braithwaites
    At Home with the Braithwaites
    At Home with the Braithwaites is a British comedy-drama television series, created and written by Sally Wainwright . The storyline follows a suburban family from Leeds, whose life is turned upside down when the mother of the family wins 38 million pounds on the lottery...
    
    (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); Clocking Off
    Clocking Off
    Clocking Off is a British television drama series which ran on the BBC One network for four series from 2000 to 2003. It was produced for the BBC by the independent Red Production Company, and created by Paul Abbott...
    
    (Red Production Company / BBC One); Tales from Pleasure Beach (Blast Film Productions / BBC Two)
• Best Single Drama
  • Winner: When I Was 12 (BBC / BBC Two)
  • Other nominees: My Beautiful Son (Granada Television / ITV); The Navigators
    The Navigators (film)
    The Navigators is a 2001 British film directed by Ken Loach with screenplay by Rob Dawber.It tells the story of the reactions of five Sheffield rail workers to the privatisation of the railway maintenance organisation for which they all work, and the consequences for them...
    
    (Parallex Films / Channel 4); Othello (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...
    
     / ITV)
• 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 / BBC One)
  • Other nominees: 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); Doctors
    Doctors (BBC Soap Opera)
    Doctors is a British daytime television soap opera, set in the fictional Midland town of Letherbridge, defined as being close to the City of Birmingham. It was created by Chris Murray; Mal Young drove its development, and Carson Black was the original producer. The first episode was broadcast on...
    
    (BBC / BBC One); Hollyoaks
    Hollyoaks
    Hollyoaks is a long-running British television soap opera, first broadcast on Channel 4 on 23 October 1995. It was originally devised by Phil Redmond, who has also devised shows including Brookside and Grange Hill...
    
    (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)
• Best Current Affairs
  • Winner: Dispatches — Beneath the Veil (Hardcash Productions
    Hardcash productions
    Hardcash Productions is an independent television production company set up by David Henshaw in 1992.Hardcash specialises in current affair programmes and has won three Emmys, three RTS Journalism Awards and a BAFTA for Channel 4's Dispatches....
    
     / Channel 4)
  • Other nominees: Endgame in Ireland (Brook Lapping
    Brook Lapping
    Brook Lapping Productions is a British TV and radio production company. Based in London, Brook Lapping is a subsidiary of Ten Alps.The company is the result of a 1997 merger of Brook Associates , and Brian Lapping Associates....
    
     / BBC Two); Panorama - Jeffrey Archer: A Life of Lies (BBC / BBC One); One Day of Terror — New York Witnesses (BBC / BBC Two)
• 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: Ant and Dec — Pop Idol
    Pop Idol
    Pop Idol is a British television series which debuted on ITV on 6 October 2001. The show was a talent contest to decide the best new young pop singer in the United Kingdom, based on viewer voting and participation. Two series were broadcast - one in 2001-02 and a second in 2003...
    
    (ITV); 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 (Channel 4); Paul Merton
    Paul Merton
    Paul Merton is a British comedian, writer, actor and television presenter. Known for his improvisation skill, his humour is rooted in deadpan, surreal and sometimes dark comedy...
    
     — 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 / BBC One)
• Best Factual Series or Strand
  • Winner: Horizon (BBC / BBC Two)
  • Other nominees: The Blue Planet
    The Blue Planet
    The Blue Planet is a BBC nature documentary series narrated by David Attenborough, first transmitted in the UK from 12 September 2001.Described as "the first ever comprehensive series on the natural history of the world's oceans", each of the eight 50-minute episodes examines a different aspect of...
    
    (BBC / BBC One); Langan Behind the Lines (BBC / BBC Two); Welcome to Britain (BBC / BBC One)
• Best Feature
  • Winner: Faking It
    Faking It
    Faking It was a television programme originating on Channel 4 which has spawned various international remakes, including a US version which began in 2003 on the TLC network...
    
    (RDF Media
    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)
  • Other nominees: Farmer Wants a Wife
    Farmer Wants a Wife
    Farmer Wants a Wife is a reality television series developed by Fremantle Media. The first edition premièred in United Kingdom on ITV in 2001. However, the original format of the programme is likely to date back to the TV programme Bauer sucht Bäuerin, which was broadcast in 1983 on SRG SSR idée...
    
    (Thames Television
    Thames Television
    Thames Television was a licensee of the British ITV television network, covering London and parts of the surrounding counties on weekdays from 30 July 1968 until 31 December 1992....
    
     / ITV); The Sound of Music Children: After They Were Famous (Tyne Tees Television
    Tyne Tees Television
    Tyne Tees Television is the ITV television franchise for North East England and parts of North Yorkshire. As of 2009, it forms part of a non-franchise ITV Tyne Tees & Border region, shared with the ITV Border region...
    
     / ITV); What Not to Wear (BBC / BBC Two)
• Flaherty Award for Single Documentary
  • Winner: Kelly and Her Sisters (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)
  • Other nominees: True Stories — Battlecentre (Diverse Productions / Channel 4); Ellen MacArthur
    Ellen MacArthur
    Dame Ellen Patricia MacArthur, DBE is an English sailor, up until 2009, from Whatstandwell near Matlock in Derbyshire, now based in West Cowes, on the Isle of Wight. She is best known as a solo long-distance yachtswoman. On 7 February 2005 she broke the world record for the fastest solo...
    
     — Sailing Through Heaven and Hell (BBC Wales
    BBC Wales
    BBC Cymru Wales is a division of the British Broadcasting Corporation for Wales. Based at Broadcasting House in the Llandaff area of Cardiff, it directly employs over 1200 people, and produces a broad range of television, radio and online services in both the Welsh and English languages.Outside...
    
     / BBC One); When Louis Met The Hamiltons (BBC / BBC One)
• Huw Wheldon Award for Specialist Factual
  • Winner: Arena — The Private Dirk Bogarde
    Dirk Bogarde
    Sir Dirk Bogarde was an English actor and novelist. Initially a matinee idol in such films as Doctor in the House and other Rank Organisation pictures, Bogarde later acted in art-house films such as Death in Venice...
    
    (Various / BBC Two)
  • Other nominees: The 1940s House
    The 1940s House
    The 1940s House is a British historical reality television programme made by Wall to Wall/Channel 4 in 2001 about a modern family that tries to the live as a typical middle-class family in London during The Blitz of World War II. It was shown on Channel 4 in the UK in 2001, and in 2002 on PBS in...
    
    (Wall to Wall / Channel 4); The Six Wives of Henry VIII
    Henry VIII of England
    Henry VIII was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He was Lord, and later King, of Ireland, as well as continuing the nominal claim by the English monarchs to the Kingdom of France...
    
    (Granada Television / Channel 4); Walk On By: The Story of Popular Song (BBC / BBC Two)
• Best Entertainment Programme or Series
  • Winner: Pop Idol
    Pop Idol
    Pop Idol is a British television series which debuted on ITV on 6 October 2001. The show was a talent contest to decide the best new young pop singer in the United Kingdom, based on viewer voting and participation. Two series were broadcast - one in 2001-02 and a second in 2003...
    
    (Thames Television / 19 TV
    19 Entertainment
    19 Entertainment, based in Los Angeles, United States, is a creator and producer of entertainment properties based around the areas of Music and Television / Film, including American Idol in the United States, Pop Idol in the United Kingdom as well as versions of the Idol series in more than...
    
     / ITV)
  • Other nominees: Have I Got News For You (Hat Trick Productions / BBC One); 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 :...
    
    (BBC / BBC One); Room 101
    Room 101 (TV series)
    Room 101 is a BBC comedy television series based on the radio series of the same name, in which celebrities were invited to discuss their pet hates and persuade the host to consign them to a fate worse than death in Room 101, named after the torture room in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, which is...
    
    (Hat Trick Productions / BBC Two)
• News Coverage
  • Winner: September 11 – 12
    September 11, 2001 attacks
    The September 11 attacks The September 11 attacks The September 11 attacks (also referred to as September 11, September 11th or 9/119/11 is pronounced "nine eleven". The slash is not part of the pronunciation...
    
    (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)
  • Other nominees: Attack on America — 11 September (ITN / Channel 4); Attack on America — 11 September (ITN / ITV); The BBC News Coverage of the Fall of Kabul — 12 November – 13 November (BBC News
    BBC News
    BBC News is the department of the British Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online...
    
     / BBC One / BBC Two / BBC News 24
    BBC News 24
    BBC News is the BBC's 24-hour rolling news television network in the United Kingdom. The channel launched as BBC News 24 on 9 November 1997 at 17:30 as part of the BBC's foray into digital domestic television channels, becoming the first competitor to Sky News, which had been running since 1989...
    
    )
• Situation Comedy Award
  • Winner: The Office (BBC / BBC One)
  • Other nominees: Gimme Gimme Gimme (Tiger Aspect Productions / Hartswood Films
    Hartswood Films
    Hartswood Films is a British television production company, founded and run by producer Beryl Vertue. The company is noted for its sitcom output, which includes Men Behaving Badly, Is It Legal? and Coupling...
    
     / BBC Two); Happiness
    Happiness (TV series)
    Happiness was a British sitcom broadcast on BBC2 with dramatic, melancholy overtones written by Paul Whitehouse and David Cummings with Whitehouse in the lead role.There have been two series thus far, the first running in 2001 and the second in 2003...
    
    (BBC / BBC Two); Spaced II
    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...
    
    (London Weekend Television / Channel 4)
• Sport
  • Winner: Channel 4 Cricket (Sunset + Vine / Channel 4)
  • Other nominees: British Grand Prix, Silverstone 2001
    2001 British Grand Prix
    The 2001 British Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on July 15, 2001 at Silverstone in Northamptonshire, England. It was the eleventh race of the 2001 Formula One season...
    
     — Farewell to Murray Walker
    Murray Walker
    Graeme Murray Walker, OBE is a former Formula One motorsport commentator...
    
    (Chrysalis Sport / Granada Sport / ITV); FA Cup Final 2001 — Liverpool vs Arsenal (ISN
    ISN
    ISN is an initialism that can stand for:* Identec Solutions Norway* ISNetworld- Web-based contractor management tool.* International School Nadi, IB World School located in Nadi, Fiji....
    
     / Carlton Television / ITV); Germany
    Germany national football team
    The Germany national football team is the football team that has represented Germany in international competition since 1908. It is governed by the German Football Association , which was founded in 1900....
    
     vs England
    England national football team
    The England national football team represents England in association football and is controlled by the Football Association, the governing body for football in England. England is the joint oldest national football team in the world, alongside Scotland, whom they played in the world's first...
    
    (BBC / BBC One)
• Innovation Award
  • Winner: Doubletake
    Doubletake (TV series)
    Doubletake was a BBC comedy programme, created by Alison Jackson. It made extensive use of celebrity look-alikes playing their doubles in apparently embarrassing situations, seen through CCTV cameras and amateur video, using distance shots and shaky camera-work to disguise the true identity of...
    
    (Tiger Aspect Productions / BBC Two)
  • Other nominees: Banzai (RDF Media / E4 / Channel 4); The Blue Planet — The Deep (BBC / BBC One); BrassEye Special (TalkBack Productions / Channel 4)
• Special Award
  • BBC Natural History Unit
    BBC Natural History Unit
    The BBC Natural History Unit is a department of the BBC dedicated to making television and radio programmes with a natural history or wildlife theme, especially nature documentaries...
    
    
• 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
  • Verity Lambert
    Verity Lambert
    Verity Ann Lambert, OBE was an English television and film producer. She is best known as the founding producer of the science-fiction series Doctor Who, a programme which has become a part of British popular culture, and for her association with Thames Television...
    
    
• 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
  • Stephen Poliakoff
    Stephen Poliakoff
    Stephen Poliakoff, CBE, FRSL is an acclaimed British playwright, director and scriptwriter, widely judged amongst Britain's foremost television dramatists.-Early life and career:...
    
    
• Academy Fellowship
  • Andrew Davies
    Andrew Davies (writer)
    Andrew Wynford Davies is a British author and screenwriter. He was made a Fellow of BAFTA in 2002.-Education and early career:...
    
    
• Special Award for Contribution to Television
  • Murray Walker
    Murray Walker
    Graeme Murray Walker, OBE is a former Formula One motorsport commentator...