List of Awards of The Bill
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The Bill
is a British police procedural
television series that ran from 1984 to 2010. The show, whose name is derived from "old bill"—a British slang term for police officers—was unusual among police dramas in that it focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work. The series originated in 1983 as a one-off drama titled Woodentop
(another British slang term for the police, derived from the helmets
worn by British police officers), written by Geoff McQueen
and produced by Thames Television
. ITV
were sufficiently impressed with Woodentop that they commissioned a series, which started in 1984 under the title of The Bill. At the time of the series' end in August 2010, The Bill was the United Kingdom's longest-running police drama and was among the longest-running of any British television series, having run for almost 27 years.
The Bill has earned various awards and nominations during its run, with the nominations in categories ranging from Best Drama to its camera and editing work to the cast's acting performance. It received nominations for eight awards from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts
, winning Best Video Cameraman in 1990 and Best Continuing Drama in 2009—an award for which it was unsuccessfully nominated in a further three years. In addition, The Bill enjoyed success at the Inside Soap Awards
, where it won Best Drama six times, including four consecutive wins, as well as a nomination in 2010—losing to Waterloo Road
. Other awards include a Writers' Guild of Great Britain
award for Best Soap/Continuing Drama Series in 2008, Best Serial Drama at the Digital Spy Soap Awards
of the same year and a nomination for Most Popular Overseas Drama at the 2005 Logie Award
s. The Bill has also received multiple nominations at the National Television Awards
, where it won Most Popular Drama in 1996 and 2004, and six Royal Television Society
award nominations, having won awards in 2006 and 2008.
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| rowspan="2" | 1990 || Best Video Cameraman || Roy Easton, Rolie Luker, Adrian J. Fearnley ||
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| Best VTR Editor || John Beech,Ray Ball, Laurie Bunce ||
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| rowspan="1" | 1991 || Best Sound (Fiction) || Alan Lester, Paul Gartrell ||
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| rowspan="1" | 1994 || Best Drama Series || Michael Chapman (Executive Producer) ||
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| rowspan="1" | 2005
|| Best Continuing Drama || The Bill ||
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| rowspan="1" | 2008
|| Best Continuing Drama || The Bill ||
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| rowspan="1" | 2009
|| Best Continuing Drama || The Bill ||
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| rowspan="1" | 2010
|| Best Continuing Drama || The Bill ||
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| 1996 || Most Popular Drama ||The Bill ||
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| 1999 || Most Popular Drama ||The Bill ||
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| rowspan="2" | 2000 || Most Popular Drama || The Bill ||
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| Most Popular Newcomer || Clara Salaman
as DS Claire Stanton ||
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| 2001 || Most Popular Drama || The Bill ||
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| 2002 || Most Popular Newcomer || Diane Parish
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| rowspan="2" | 2003 || Most Popular Drama || The Bill ||
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| Most Popular Newcomer || Daniel MacPherson
as PC Cameron Tait ||
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| 2004 || Most Popular Drama || The Bill ||
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| 2005 || Most Popular Drama|| The Bill ||
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| 2007 || Most Popular Drama|| The Bill ||
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| rowspan="2" | 2008 || Most Popular Drama || The Bill ||
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| Outstanding Drama Performance || Alex Walkinshaw
as Sergeant Dale "Smithy" Smith
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| 2010 || Most Popular Drama || The Bill ||
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| 2004 || Best Lighting, Photography and Camera – Multicamera Work|| Camera team (live episode) ||
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| rowspan="2" | 2006 || Best Sound Drama (live episode) || Alison Davis, Donna Wiffen, Sylvie Boden, John Osborne ||
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| Best Lighting, Photography and Camera – Multicamera Work (live episode) || Sylvie Boden, Christopher Davies, Tony Keene, Donna Wiffen ||
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| 2008 || Best Soap or Continuing Drama|| The Bill ||
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| 2009 || Best Soap or Continuing Drama || The Bill ||
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| 2010 || Best Soap or Continuing Drama || The Bill ||
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| 2007 || Best Drama || The Bill ||
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| 2009 || Best Drama || The Bill ||
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| 2010 || Best Drama || The Bill ||
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| 2005
|| Logie Award
|| Most Popular Overseas Drama || The Bill ||
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| rowspan=2 |2008 || Writers' Guild of Great Britain
Award || Best Soap/Continuing Drama Series || The Bill ||
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| Digital Spy Soap Awards
|| Best Serial Drama || The Bill ||
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British Academy of Film and Television Arts
British Academy of Film and Television Arts
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts is a charity in the United Kingdom that hosts annual awards shows for excellence in film, television, television craft, video games and forms of animation.-Introduction:...
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Digital Spy Soap Awards
Digital Spy Soap Awards
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Inside Soap Awards
Inside Soap Awards
The Inside Soap Awards is a yearly award ceremony run by Inside Soap magazine since 1996. The awards celebrate the British and Australian soap operas and their actors. Until 2007, EastEnders had won the award for "Best Soap" on every occasion...
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Logie Award
Logie Award
The TV Week Logie Awards are the Australian television industry awards, which have been presented annually since 1959. Renamed by Graham Kennedy in 1960 after he won the first 'Star Of The Year' award, the name 'Logie' awards honours John Logie Baird, a Scotsman who invented the television as a...
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National Television Awards
National Television Awards
The National Television Awards is a British television awards ceremony, broadcast by the ITV network and initiated in 1995. The National Television Awards are the most prominent ceremony for which the results are voted on by the general public. Because of the way the awards are decided, winners are...
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Royal Television Society
Royal Television Society
The Royal Television Society is a British-based educational charity for the discussion, and analysis of television in all its forms, past, present and future. It is the oldest television society in the world...
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Writers' Guild of Great Britain
Writers' Guild of Great Britain
The Writers' Guild of Great Britain, established in 1959, is a trade union for professional writers. It is affiliated with both the Trades Union Congress and the International Affiliation of Writers Guilds .-Activities:...
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The Bill
The Bill
The Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work...
is a British police procedural
Police procedural
The police procedural is a subgenre of detective fiction which attempts to convincingly depict the activities of a police force as they investigate crimes. While traditional detective novels usually concentrate on a single crime, police procedurals frequently depict investigations into several...
television series that ran from 1984 to 2010. The show, whose name is derived from "old bill"—a British slang term for police officers—was unusual among police dramas in that it focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work. The series originated in 1983 as a one-off drama titled Woodentop
Woodentop (The Bill)
"Woodentop" is an episode of the Thames Television series of one-off plays Storyboard. The programme was originally broadcast on 16 August 1983. It is also the forerunner to the long-running British police television series The Bill...
(another British slang term for the police, derived from the helmets
Custodian helmet
Custodian helmet or centurion helmet, technically known as a 'Home Office pattern helmet', is a helmet worn by many policemen in England and Wales.-History:...
worn by British police officers), written by Geoff McQueen
Geoff McQueen
Geoffrey "Geoff" McQueen was a television screenwriter. A carpenter and joiner by trade he worked abroad for many years before he began writing in 1978. His first success came in 1982 when an episode of The Gentle Touch he'd written was aired.-Career:He is probably best remembered for creating...
and produced by 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
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...
were sufficiently impressed with Woodentop that they commissioned a series, which started in 1984 under the title of The Bill. At the time of the series' end in August 2010, The Bill was the United Kingdom's longest-running police drama and was among the longest-running of any British television series, having run for almost 27 years.
The Bill has earned various awards and nominations during its run, with the nominations in categories ranging from Best Drama to its camera and editing work to the cast's acting performance. It received nominations for eight awards from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts
British Academy of Film and Television Arts
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts is a charity in the United Kingdom that hosts annual awards shows for excellence in film, television, television craft, video games and forms of animation.-Introduction:...
, winning Best Video Cameraman in 1990 and Best Continuing Drama in 2009—an award for which it was unsuccessfully nominated in a further three years. In addition, The Bill enjoyed success at the Inside Soap Awards
Inside Soap Awards
The Inside Soap Awards is a yearly award ceremony run by Inside Soap magazine since 1996. The awards celebrate the British and Australian soap operas and their actors. Until 2007, EastEnders had won the award for "Best Soap" on every occasion...
, where it won Best Drama six times, including four consecutive wins, as well as a nomination in 2010—losing to Waterloo Road
Waterloo Road (TV series)
Waterloo Road is an award-winning British television drama series, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 9 March 2006. Set in a troubled comprehensive school in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, the series focuses on the lives of the school's teacher and students, and confronts social...
. Other awards include a Writers' Guild of Great Britain
Writers' Guild of Great Britain
The Writers' Guild of Great Britain, established in 1959, is a trade union for professional writers. It is affiliated with both the Trades Union Congress and the International Affiliation of Writers Guilds .-Activities:...
award for Best Soap/Continuing Drama Series in 2008, Best Serial Drama at the Digital Spy Soap Awards
Digital Spy Soap Awards
The Digital Spy Soap Awards was an event that honoured the successes in British soap operas in 2007-8. It was hosted by the entertainment website Digital Spy....
of the same year and a nomination for Most Popular Overseas Drama at the 2005 Logie Award
Logie Award
The TV Week Logie Awards are the Australian television industry awards, which have been presented annually since 1959. Renamed by Graham Kennedy in 1960 after he won the first 'Star Of The Year' award, the name 'Logie' awards honours John Logie Baird, a Scotsman who invented the television as a...
s. The Bill has also received multiple nominations at the National Television Awards
National Television Awards
The National Television Awards is a British television awards ceremony, broadcast by the ITV network and initiated in 1995. The National Television Awards are the most prominent ceremony for which the results are voted on by the general public. Because of the way the awards are decided, winners are...
, where it won Most Popular Drama in 1996 and 2004, and six Royal Television Society
Royal Television Society
The Royal Television Society is a British-based educational charity for the discussion, and analysis of television in all its forms, past, present and future. It is the oldest television society in the world...
award nominations, having won awards in 2006 and 2008.
British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards
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!width="65"|Result
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| rowspan="2" | 1990 || Best Video Cameraman || Roy Easton, Rolie Luker, Adrian J. Fearnley ||
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| Best VTR Editor || John Beech,Ray Ball, Laurie Bunce ||
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| rowspan="1" | 1991 || Best Sound (Fiction) || Alan Lester, Paul Gartrell ||
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| rowspan="1" | 1994 || Best Drama Series || Michael Chapman (Executive Producer) ||
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| rowspan="1" | 2005
British Academy Television Awards 2005
The 2005 British Academy Television Awards were held on Sunday 17 April at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London. The ceremony was hosted by Irish comedian and television presenter Graham Norton.-Winners:*Best Actor...
|| Best Continuing Drama || The Bill ||
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| rowspan="1" | 2008
British Academy Television Awards 2008
The 2008 British Academy Television Awards were held on 20 April at the London Palladium Theatre in London. The ceremony was broadcast live on BBC One in the United Kingdom. The nominations were announced on 18 March 2008. Drama Cranford received the most nominations with four, making Judi Dench...
|| Best Continuing Drama || The Bill ||
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| rowspan="1" | 2009
British Academy Television Awards 2009
The 2009 British Academy Television Awards were held on 26 April at the Royal Festival Hall in London. The event was broadcast live on BBC One and was hosted by Graham Norton. The nominations were announced on 24 March...
|| Best Continuing Drama || The Bill ||
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| rowspan="1" | 2010
British Academy Television Awards 2010
The 2010 British Academy Television Awards were held on 6 June 2010. The nominations were announced on 10 May.This year new awards were added including the award for Best Actor/Actress in a Supporting Role. Graham Norton hosted the ceremony...
|| Best Continuing Drama || The Bill ||
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National Television Awards
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| 1996 || Most Popular Drama ||The Bill ||
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| 1999 || Most Popular Drama ||The Bill ||
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| rowspan="2" | 2000 || Most Popular Drama || The Bill ||
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| Most Popular Newcomer || Clara Salaman
Clara Salaman
Clara Salaman is an actress based in Britain.She is known for playing the role of DS Claire Stanton in the long running ITV drama The Bill....
as DS Claire Stanton ||
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| 2001 || Most Popular Drama || The Bill ||
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| 2002 || Most Popular Newcomer || Diane Parish
Diane Parish
Diane Parish is a British actress best known for her role as Denise Johnson in the BBC Soap EastEnders and DC Eva Sharpe in The Bill.-Career:...
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| rowspan="2" | 2003 || Most Popular Drama || The Bill ||
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| Most Popular Newcomer || Daniel MacPherson
Daniel MacPherson
Daniel Donald MacPherson is an Australian actor and television presenter, best known for his roles as; Joel Samuels on Neighbours, PC Cameron Tait on British police drama The Bill, and Detective Senior Constable Simon Joyner in City Homicide...
as PC Cameron Tait ||
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| 2004 || Most Popular Drama || The Bill ||
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| 2005 || Most Popular Drama|| The Bill ||
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| 2007 || Most Popular Drama|| The Bill ||
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| rowspan="2" | 2008 || Most Popular Drama || The Bill ||
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| Outstanding Drama Performance || Alex Walkinshaw
Alex Walkinshaw
Alex Newcombe Walkinshaw is an English actor best known for playing the role of Inspector Dale "Smithy" Smith in ITV's long running police procedural series, The Bill.-Early life and career:...
as Sergeant Dale "Smithy" Smith
Dale Smith (The Bill)
Dale Smith is a fictional character played by Alex Walkinshaw in the British police procedural television series, The Bill. He first appeared in 1999 as a police constable, and eventually became inspector.-Character history:...
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| 2010 || Most Popular Drama || The Bill ||
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Royal Television Society Awards
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| 2004 || Best Lighting, Photography and Camera – Multicamera Work|| Camera team (live episode) ||
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| rowspan="2" | 2006 || Best Sound Drama (live episode) || Alison Davis, Donna Wiffen, Sylvie Boden, John Osborne ||
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| Best Lighting, Photography and Camera – Multicamera Work (live episode) || Sylvie Boden, Christopher Davies, Tony Keene, Donna Wiffen ||
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| 2008 || Best Soap or Continuing Drama|| The Bill ||
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| 2009 || Best Soap or Continuing Drama || The Bill ||
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| 2010 || Best Soap or Continuing Drama || The Bill ||
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Inside Soap Awards
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| 2002 || Best Drama || The Bill ||
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| 2004 || Best Drama || The Bill ||
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| 2006 || Best Drama || The Bill ||
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| 2007 || Best Drama || The Bill ||
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| 2008 || Best Drama || The Bill ||
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| 2009 || Best Drama || The Bill ||
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| 2010 || Best Drama || The Bill ||
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Other
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| 2005
Logie Awards of 2005
The 47th Annual TV Week Logie Awards were presented on Sunday 1 May 2005 at Crown Casino in Melbourne and broadcast on the Nine Network. In an historic first Andrew O'Keefe from the Seven Network, Eddie McGuire from the Nine Network and Rove McManus from Network Ten were all Master of Ceremonies...
|| Logie Award
Logie Award
The TV Week Logie Awards are the Australian television industry awards, which have been presented annually since 1959. Renamed by Graham Kennedy in 1960 after he won the first 'Star Of The Year' award, the name 'Logie' awards honours John Logie Baird, a Scotsman who invented the television as a...
|| Most Popular Overseas Drama || The Bill ||
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| rowspan=2 |2008 || Writers' Guild of Great Britain
Writers' Guild of Great Britain
The Writers' Guild of Great Britain, established in 1959, is a trade union for professional writers. It is affiliated with both the Trades Union Congress and the International Affiliation of Writers Guilds .-Activities:...
Award || Best Soap/Continuing Drama Series || The Bill ||
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| Digital Spy Soap Awards
Digital Spy Soap Awards
The Digital Spy Soap Awards was an event that honoured the successes in British soap operas in 2007-8. It was hosted by the entertainment website Digital Spy....
|| Best Serial Drama || The Bill ||
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External links
- The Bill official website