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Shameless, The Street and John Stevenson scoop top RTS honours |
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Monday, 17 November 2008 |
Shameless and The Street were voted best single and continuing drama respectively at the RTS awards this week-end with scriptwriter John Stevenson picking up the judges’ awards for his 40 year contribution to TV regionally and nationally.
Over 350 guests somehow managed to tear themselves away from their TV screens and the X Factor on Saturday night to celebrate the best the region’s TV industry has to offer. Fortunately Michelle Collins was able to update the audience on the goings-on of the TV show as the evening unfolded.
The region’s ‘big guns’ including Coronation Street, Hollyoaks, Shameless, Ideal, Dragons’ Den and Grange Hill were there with Channel m on hand to film it all.
Ably compered by comedian Jason Manford, 21 awards were handed out on the night with suitable glee being demonstrated by a majority of the winners, particularly so it seemed when Granada won a prize.
Shameless won the best continuing drama (BCD) category with actor Sean Gilder picking up the best performance award in the same category.
Matthew Kelly picked up an award for his performance in Cold Blood: The Last Hurrah and also accepted You’ve Been Framed’s (series 20!) award for best comedy programme.
Grange Hill goes out on a high as it picked up the best children’s programme award – a category which newly recent dad Manford suggested was the most important category to be won…
North West Tonight’s exposure of the fake James Purnell photos won it best regional news programme while the Granada Reports team picked up two individual categories for best reporter and best presenter.
Accepting his reporting award, Stephen Douglas said that: “ITV regional news faces a challenging period and it is in all our interests that we come through this: come on BBC, it would be no good or fun without us!”
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Hall generously added that although he naturally delighted to have won: “Andy Crane could easily have proved to be the winner and in Caroline Hacking we can all see a future superstar.”
The awards’ chairperson Helen Bullough will have been delighted by two of her department’s national gongs for Dragon’s Den (Series 6) and The Comedy Map of Britain. Michael Wakelin’s religion & ethics department won the network factual series category for Extreme Pilgrim with The Passion winning the innovation in multiplatform award.
John Stevenson, with over 40 year’s scriptwriting to his credit, proved a very popular winner of the judges’ award. Stevenson, who began his career as a journalist, told the audience that “Television was a lot easier 40 years ago – it’s much tougher now.” He has scripted several hundred episodes of Corrie and his wide range of other credits include the cult series Brass and North Yorkshire’s finest Heartbeat.
The full list of nominations and winners was as follows:
1. Best Regional News Programme
Manchester United Champions of Europe
ITV Granada
Granada Reports, Rhys Jones
ITV Granada
Winner - North West Tonight – Fake Photo Exclusive
BBC
2. Best Reporter on a Regional Programme
Winner - Stephen Douglas
ITV Granada
Abbie Jones
BBC North West Tonight
Dave Guest
BBC North West Tonight
3. Best Presenter on a Regional Programme
Winner - Mike Hall
ITV Granada
Andy Crane
Channel M
Caroline Hacking
ITV Granada
4. Best Regional Programme
Inside Out North West
Steve Rikks: A Good Impression
Winner - Made in England: Michael Brown
Centini
I am a Kloot Play Moolah Rouge
Channel M
5. Best Sports Programme (Network or Regional)
Soccer Night: Flowers of Manchester, Munich 1958
ITV Granada
Winner - Rugby League Raw
PDI Media
The Great Manchester Football Show
Channel M
Countdown to Moscow
MUTV
6. Best Newcomer Award (off Screen)
Siencyn Langham – Editor
Shameless Series 5
Company Productions North Ltd
Winner - Angela Byre, Producer & Nigel Hoar, Director
Hitting Home – Carefree
University of Salford
Lucy Breakwell
BBC North West
7. Award for Outstanding Achievement in Craft
Winner - Headcases
Red Vision
Ben Fuller – Director
Ideal
BBC Comedy North
Rupert & the Dancing Shoes: Richard Haynes - Animation
Cosgrove Hall Films
Rupert & The Butterfly Collector
Andrea Lord - Costume Design
Cosgrove Hall Films
8. Award for Innovation in Multiplatform
Memorial Service
Channel M
Winner - The Passion
BBC
Last Choir Standing
BBC
9. Best Current Affairs Programme
Winner - Panorama: Teenage Sex for Sale
BBC
Inside Out North West: Regeneration Game
BBC
Tonight: Make Me a Scot
ITV
10. Best Network Single Documentary
Winner - Mandela’s Children
ITV1
Martin Luther King: American Prophet
BBC
Hitting Home: Carefree
University of Salford for Channel M
11. Best Network Factual Series
14 UP 2000
Granada TV for BBC 1
Blackpool Medics
BBC
Winner - Extreme Pilgrim (Prog 2 India)
BBC 2
12. Best Network Features Programme
Winner - Dragons’ Den Series 6
BBC
Street Doctor
BBC
Zoo Days
Granada Wild
13. Best Network Entertainment Programme
Baby Ballroom
ITV
Winner - Comedy Map of Britain
BBC
Identity
BBC
14. Best Children’s Programmes
Roary the racing car
Chapman Entertainment
Winner - Grange Hill
Lime Pictures
Rupert & The Snow Key
Cosgrove Hall Films
15. Best Performance in a Drama or Drama Series
Winner - Matthew Kelly - Cold Blood – The Last Hurrah
ITV
Jodhi May - The Street
Granada TV
David Thewliss - The Street
Granada TV
16. Best Performance in a Comedy
Stefan Gumbs – Scallywagga
BBC Comedy North
Johnny Vegas – Ideal
BBC Comedy North
Winner - Sinead Matthews – Ideal
BBC Comedy North
17. Best Performance in a Continuing Drama
Winner - Sean Gilder ‘Paddy Maguire’ Shameless Series 5
Company Productions North Ltd
Katherine Kelly ‘Becky Grainger’
Coronation Street
ITV
Emma Rigby ‘Hannah Ashworth’
Hollyoaks
Lime Pictures
18. Best Comedy Programme
Scallywagga
BBC Comedy North
Ideal
BBC Comedy North
Winner - You’ve Been Framed
ITV Productions
19. Best Single Drama or Drama Series
Winner - The Street
Granada
Cold Blood – The Last Hurrah
ITV
Casualty 1907
BBC
20. Best Continuing Drama
Coronation Street
ITV
Hollyoaks
Lime Pictures
Winner - Shameless Series 5
Company Productions North 21. The judges' award John Stevenson
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