RTS Programme Awards 2013 - 2014

RTS Programme Awards 2013–2014

Contents The Royal Television Society

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Officers

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Programme

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Host

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Nominations

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Juries

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Forthcoming Events

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Patrons

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Royal Television Society The Royal Television Society is Britain’s leading forum for television and related media.

Membership is open to everyone with an interest in the medium.

Many of the Society’s dinners and conventions are oversubscribed.

Patron and individual membership entitles members to priority applications and advanced booking.

The RTS was granted its Royal title in 1966 and HRH The Prince of Wales became Patron of the Society in 1997. The RTS brings together people to exchange ideas, debate and explore key issues. The RTS Awards are an internationally recognised hallmark for quality and originality.

There are 13 regional centres in the UK, and a Republic of Ireland Centre located in Dublin.

Each Centre provides a mix of programme, technical, and craft events.

For over 80 years, the RTS has provided the UK’s main platform for debate about the future of television. Its lectures, events and publications make a substantial contribution to raising standards and developing practice.

The RTS organises dinners with influential speakers, lectures, monthly sessions on current issues, and the world famous biennial Cambridge Convention sets the agenda for the future.

Television, the leading UK monthly on television issues and broadcasting policy, is distributed free to members. Separate RTS Awards events cover Programme Making, Television Journalism, Craft and Design, Students and Innovation.

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The Society is an educational charity, embracing all aspects of television, including the creative community, broadcasting, equipment manufacture, professional consultancy, journalism, design, research and development, cable, satellite, video and interactivity. The Society relies for its future on the contributions of individual members and corporate Patrons.

Individual membership is available from £65.00 per year. Please contact info@rts.org.uk for details.

Officers Patron HRH The Prince of Wales

Board of Trustees John Hardie – Chair Tim Davie – Vice Chair Mike Green – Honorary Treasurer David Lowen – Honorary Secretary Huw Jones Jane Lighting Graham McWilliam Simon Pitts Graeme Thompson

President Sir Peter Bazalgette Vice Presidents Dawn Airey Sir David Attenborough

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Baroness Benjamin OBE Dame Colette Bowe John Cresswell Mike Darcey Greg Dyke Lorraine Heggessey Ashley Highfield The Rt. Hon. Dame Tessa Jowell David Lynn Sir Trevor McDonald OBE Ken MacQuarrie Trevor Phillips OBE Stewart Purvis CBE John Smith Sir Howard Stringer Mark Thompson

Executive Chief Executive – Theresa Wise Royal Television Society 3 Dorset Rise London EC4Y 8EN MP

T: 020 7822 2810 E: info@rts.org.uk www.rts.org.uk Founded 1927

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Programme Welcome Sir Peter Bazalgette, President of the Royal Television Society Awards presentation hosted by John Sergeant David Liddiment, Chair of the Programme Awards The Society would like to thank principal sponsor IMG Studios And also Autocue Acknowledgements Executive Producer – Mark Wells Produced by – Lipfriend Rodd International Audio, Lighting and Video facilities – Creative Technology Set Frames – Design and Build Opening Titles – Mediahouse FX RTS theme music – composed and arranged

by Chris Egan Event logistics – Cranberry Media Floor Managers – Tracy Ransom and Mat Wayne Photographers – Richard Kendal and Paul Hampartsoumian Programme – Red Stone Media Relations – Hobnob PR Royal Television Society Awards Management Chief Executive – Theresa Wise Events Manager – Jo Mitchell Events Team – Jamie O’Neill and Callum Stott

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Host John Sergeant John Sergeant is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster, as well as a much talkedabout contestant on Strictly Come Dancing, a regular contributor to the BBC’s One Show, the first host of the comedy panel game Argumental on the Dave Channel and presenter of the ITV series John Sergeant’s Tourist Trail, and the BBC’s series on the history of the Indian Railways, Tracks of Empire. John was the voice of ITV’s popular Grimefighter series, and presented a mock documentary for BBC Two, John Sergeant meets Rab C Nesbitt. In 2012, John presented the BBC Two series Britain’s First Photo Album. More recent documentaries for ITV include Sergeant on Spike, celebrating the genius of Spike Milligan, and a profile of the new royal borough of Greenwich Royal Greenwich. He also presented three documentaries for BBC Two’s Britain’s Flying Past.

He narrated ITV’s Bomber Boys documentary about the WW2 bombing campaign and was invited to read a poem at the ceremony to unveil the Bomber Command memorial in London. John appeared in a three-part series based on a sailing trip along the Scottish sea lochs. He took part in the TV version

of Just A Minute and was the host for the return of a new series of Yes Prime Minister.

John’s most recent project filmed on canals around the UK in the summer of 2014, Barging Round Britain, is currently being broadcast on ITV. John has written two books which made it to the best seller lists: his memoirs, Give Me Ten Seconds and an account of the last part of Baroness Thatcher’s career, Maggie: Her Fatal Legacy.

John’s first BBC television appearance was in 1966 in Alan Bennett’s comedy series, On the Margin. John then became a journalist, training on the Liverpool Daily Post and Echo before joining the BBC staff in 1970. He reported from 25 countries and he covered a number of conflicts, including the Vietnam War and the troubles in Northern Ireland, before settling down at Westminster. He was chief political correspondent of the BBC for 12 years. His most famous broadcast was with Margaret Thatcher outside the British Embassy in Paris in 1990 when she heard the devastating result of the leadership contest with Michael Heseltine which would lead to her resignation as prime minister two days later. After 30 years with the corporation, he moved to ITV where he was political editor of ITN from 2000 to 2003.

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Nominations Entertainment The Graham Norton Show So Television for BBC One Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway ITV Studios/Mitre Television for ITV A League Of Their Own – Series 8 CPL Productions for Sky 1HD Entertainment Performance Keith Lemon – Celebrity Juice Talkback for ITV2 Claudia Winkleman – Strictly Come Dancing BBC Productions for BBC One Graham Norton – The Graham Norton Show So Television for BBC One Soap and Continuing Drama Coronation Street ITV Studios for ITV EastEnders BBC Drama Production London for BBC One Casualty BBC Drama Production Wales for BBC One Popular Factual and Features Great British Bake Off Love West for BBC One The Island With Bear Grylls Shine TV/Bear Grylls Ventures Co-Production for Channel 4 50 Ways To Kill Your Mammy Burning Bright Productions/Brown Bread Films for Sky 1HD

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Nominations Children’s Programme Marrying Mum and Dad CBBC Productions for CBBC The Big Performance 3: Finale Twenty Twenty Productions for CBBC Swashbuckle ‘Pirate Pampering’ CBeebies for CBeebies Children’s Fiction 4 O’Clock Club – Christmas CBBC Productions for CBBC Hank Zipzer Kindle Entertainment/DHX Media/Walker Productions supported by Screen Yorkshire’s Yorkshire Content Fund for CBBC Katie Morag and the Tiresome Ted Move On Up for CBeebies Arts Messiah at the Foundling Hospital Reef Television for BBC Two Grayson Perry: Who Are You? Swan Films for Channel 4 Our Gay Wedding: The Musical Wingspan Productions for Channel 4 Documentary Series Life & Death Row BBC Documentaries Production for BBC Three Protecting our Parents BBC Documentaries Production for BBC Two Bedlam The Garden Productions for Channel 4

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Nominations Single Documentary This World: Terror at The Mall Amos Pictures for BBC Two Baby P: The Untold Story Sandpaper Films for BBC One The Paedophile Hunter Amos Pictures for Channel 4 History The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain BBC Arts Production Bristol in partnership with Royal Collection Trust for BBC Four The World’s War: Forgotten Soldiers of Empire BBC History Production for BBC Two Our World War BBC Documentaries Production for BBC Three Presenter Grayson Perry – Grayson Perry: Who Are You? Swan Films for Channel 4 Billy Connolly – Billy Connolly’s Big Send Off Burning Bright Productions for ITV Dr Lucy Worsley – The First Georgians: The German Kings Who Made Britain BBC Arts Production Bristol in partnership with Royal Collection Trust for BBC Four

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Nominations Live Event D-Day: The Heroes Return BBC Events Productions for BBC One The Grand National IMG Productions for Channel 4 WW1 Remembered – From The Battlefield & From Westminster Abbey BBC Events Productions for BBC One Sports Programme The 2014 Ryder Cup Sky Sports/European Tour Productions for Sky Sports British Grand Prix BBC Sport for BBC Two World Cup: Germany Vs Brazil BBC Sport for BBC One Sports Presenter, Commentator or Pundit Gary Lineker BBC Sport for BBC One Gary Neville Sky Sports Hazel Irvine BBC Sport Daytime Programme This Morning ITV Studios for ITV Superstar Dogs Tuesday’s Child Television for Channel 4 Couples Come Dine With Me ITV Studios for Channel 4

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Nominations Scripted Comedy Harry and Paul’s Story of the Twos Balloon Entertainment for BBC Two Him & Her: The Wedding Big Talk Productions for BBC Three Moone Boy – Series 2 Baby Cow Productions/Hot Cod Productions/ Sprout Pictures/Grand Pictures for Sky 1HD Comedy Performance Sarah Hadland – The Job Lot – Series 2 Big Talk Productions for ITV2 Reece Shearsmith & Steve Pemberton – Inside No. 9 BBC Comedy Production London for BBC Two Harry Enfield – Harry and Paul’s Story of the Twos Balloon Entertainment for BBC Two International True Detective HBO Entertainment in association with Neon Black/ Anonymous Content/Parliament of Owls/ Passenger acquired by Sky Atlantic The Big Bang Theory – Series 7 Chuck Lorre Productions Inc. in association with Warner Bros. Television for E4 Fargo MGM/FX Productions for Channel 4

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Nominations Science and Natural History The Girl Who Talked To Dolphins BBC Scotland Science Productions for BBC Four Live From Space: Lap of the Planet Arrow Media for Channel 4 Life Story BBC Natural History Production/Open University/ BBC Worldwide/Discovery/France TV for BBC One Writer – Drama Sally Wainwright – Happy Valley Red Production Company for BBC One Peter Bowker – Marvellous Fifty Fathoms Productions and Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC Two Jimmy McGovern – Common LA Productions for BBC One Writer – Comedy Jessica Knappett – Drifters – Series 2 Bwark for E4 Sam Leifer, Tom Basden – Plebs – Series 2 Rise Films for ITV2 Harry Enfield, Paul Whitehouse, Charlie Higson – Harry and Paul’s Story of the Twos Balloon Entertainment for BBC Two

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Nominations Actor – Female Sheridan Smith – Cilla ITV Studios/GroupM Entertainment for ITV Sarah Lancashire – Happy Valley Red Production Company for BBC One Georgina Campbell – Murdered By My Boyfriend BBC Productions for BBC Three Actor – Male Tom Hollander – A Poet In New York Modern Television for BBC Cymru Wales & BBC Two Toby Jones – Marvellous Fifty Fathoms Productions and Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC Two Adeel Akhtar – Utopia – Series 2 Kudos Production for Channel 4 Single Drama Common LA Productions for BBC One Murdered By My Boyfriend BBC Productions for BBC Three Marvellous Fifty Fathoms Productions and Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC Two

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Nominations Drama Serial The Honourable Woman Drama Republic and Eight Rooks for BBC Two The Driver Red Production Company/Highfield Pictures for BBC One Prey Red Production Company for ITV Drama Series Peaky Blinders II Caryn Mandabach Productions/ Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC Two Line Of Duty – Series 2 World Productions for BBC Two Happy Valley Red Production Company for BBC One Judges’ Award The winner of this Award will be announced at the Awards Ceremony Lifetime Achievement Award The winner of this Award will be announced at the Awards Ceremony

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Juries Chair of the Programme Awards David Liddiment Entertainment Chair: Ruth Wrigley Toby Earle Evening Standard Rich Evans Channel 4 Phil Harris Lime Pictures Michael Kelpie Potato (ITV Studios) Jon Mountague BSkyB Daniela Neumann Spun Gold TV Donna Taberer BBC Academy Kate Thornton Entertainment Performance Chair: Anita Land Capel & Land Richard Arnold Chris Aylott BSkyB Paul Jackson Jane Lush Kalooki Pictures Laura Mansfield Outline Productions Iain McCallum Tiger Aspect Jamila Metran ITV Neil Midgley Kate Teckman Channel 4 Soap & Continuing Drama Chair: Anne Mensah BSkyB David Brown Radio Times Sarah Conroy ITV Surian Fletcher-Jones Channel 4 Sue Hogg BBC Paul Marquess Newman Street

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Popular Factual & Features Chair: Tamara Howe BBC Jim Allen RDF Lorraine Charker-Phillps BSkyB Justin Gorman Channel 4 Leigh Holmwood The Sun Jamie Isaacs Avalon Factual Television Sarah Thornton TLC Maxine Watson BBC Asif Zubairy ITV Children’s Fiction and Children’s Programme Chair: Nigel Pickard Dial Square 86 Finn Arnesen Hasbro Studios Alison Boshoff Daily Mail Melissa Hardinge BBC Oli Hyatt Blue Zoo Animation Howard Litton Billy Macqueen Darrell Macqueen Richard McCourt Reem Nouss Reem Nouss Media Dominic Wood Arts Chair: Muriel Gray Aaqil Ahmed BBC Steve Clarke Television Nick Mirsky Channel 4 Sue Robertson Alexei Sayle Ollie Tait Lambent Productions

Juries Documentary Series Chair: Trevor Phillips OBE Webber Phillips Kamal Ahmed BBC Tim Campbell MBE Bright Ideas Trust Rob Coldstream Channel 4 Susanna Dinnage Discovery Networks UK & Ireland Catherine Oldfield ITV Studios Emma Read ITN Productions Charlotte Surtees Darlow Smithson

Presenter and Sports Presenter, Commentator or Pundit Chair: Chris Pye John Claridge ITV Mark Dolan Guy Freeman BBC Anna Kessel Guardian and Observer Jamie Munro Greenbird Media Heather Rabatts Smuggler Entertainment Ade Rawcliffe Channel 4 Steve Scott ITN

Single Documentary Chair: David Bergg ITV Steve Anderson Peacock Productions Bridget Boseley Outline Productions Sally Debonnaire ITV Studios Jonathan Edwards CBE Ben Gale Little Gem Eric Harwood BSkyB Graham Lafferty Discovery Networks UK & Ireland Siobhan Sinnerton Channel 4 Jan Younghusband BBC

Live Event and Sports Programme Chair: Dave Gordon Grant Best BT Sport Ian Dunkley Channel 4 Amanda Farnsworth BBC News Joanna Manning-Cooper England Rugby 2015 Mark Sidaway Thames Steve Smith Sky Sports Nick Vaughan-Barrett

History Chair: Steve Hewlett David Brindley Channel 4 Catherine Catton UKTV Alan Clements STV Ian Russell ITN Productions Fran Unsworth BBC Helen Veale Outline Productions

Daytime Programme Chair: Camilla Lewis Curve Media Simon Albury Lisa Campbell Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival Jake Kanter Broadcast Lucy Leveugle Channel 4 Tom McDonald BBC Anna Richardson Amanda Stavri ITV Susie Worster Wall to Wall

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Juries Scripted Comedy Chair: Beryl Vertue OBE Hartswood Films Sophie Clarke-Jervoise Tiger Aspect Serena Cullen Ed De Burgh Channel 4 Sarah Doole FremantleMedia Phillip Edgar-Jones BSkyB Victoria Fea ITV Boyd Hilton Heat Simon Nye Comedy Performance Chair: Karl Warner Electric Ray Joanna Hunter BSkyB Madeleine Knight Channel 4 Joe Mace ITV Studios Andrew Newman Objective Productions Hilary Rosen UKTV Jonathan Shalit OBE Roar Global Ed Sleeman BBC International Award Chair: Jon Thoday Avalon Television Elaine Cameron Hartswood Films Mark Freeland BBC Sue Latimer ARG Jo McClellan BSkyB Phil Stagg ITV Chloe Tucker Channel 4

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Science & Natural History Chair: Michelle Chappell Channel 5 Rob Carey Curve Media Tessa Finch BBC Bristol Nick Godwin BriteSpark Films Dan Korn Discovery Networks Anna Miralis Channel 4 Sumit Paul-Choudhury New Scientist Mark Scantlebury ITV Studios Emma Wakefield Lambent Productions Writer – Drama Chair: David Liddiment Chris Curtis Broadcast Elizabeth Day The Observer Kate Lewis ITV Studios Olivia Lichtenstein Storyvault Lucy Lumsden BSkyB Simon McBurney Stephen McCrum BBC Diederick Santer Lovely Day Writer – Comedy Chair: Roberto Troni Channel 4 Sam Bain Sasha Breslau ITV Camilla Campbell Noho Film & Television Kate Harwood Euston Films Johann Knobel Headstrong Pictures Tom Leggett Channel 4 Julia McKenzie BBC Jane Moore

Juries Actor (Male) and Actor (Female) Chair: Edward Hall Hampstead Theatre Hilary Bevan-Jones Endor Productions Chris Brogden BSkyB Ben Farrell BBC Tim Haines ITV Studios Georgina Lowe Sarah Sands Evening Standard Rachel Springett Channel 4 Simon Williams Roy Williams

Drama Series Chair: Carolyn Reynolds Dawn Airey Yahoo Philip Glenister Nigel Hall Syco Angela Jain ITV Fiona McDermott Channel 4 Brian Park Julia Raeside Red Magazine Gregor Sharp BBC Julia Stuart BSkyB

Single Drama Chair: Jane Featherstone Kudos Film and Television Christopher Aird BBC Baroness Floella Benjamin OBE Saurabh Kakkar Big Talk Productions Simon Maxwell Channel 4 Nisha Parti Parti Productions Saskia Schuster ITV Jodie Whittaker Drama Serial Chair: Lorraine Heggessey The Grierson Trust Jamie Campbell Eleven Film Celine Coulson Channel 4 Morwenna Gordon BSkyB Dave Hollis ITV Oliver Kent BBC Lis Steele

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Forthcoming Events 25 March 2015 RTS Early Evening In Conversation with… Armando Iannucci One Great George Street, London, SW1P 3AA 27 April 2015 RTS Futures What’s In The Digital World For Me? The Hospital Club, 24 Endell Street, London, WC2H 9HQ 5 June 2015 RTS Student Television Awards 2014 BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, South Bank, London, SE1 8XT 16 July 2015 RTS Futures Summer Party Venue TBC 16–18 September 2015 RTS Cambridge Convention 2015 West Road Concert Hall and King’s College, Cambridge 30 November 2015 RTS Craft & Design Awards 2013–2014 London Hilton on Park Lane, 22 Park Lane, London, W1K 1BE

For more information about future events visit www.rts.org.uk

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Patrons Principal Patrons Bbc BSkyB Channel 4 Itv International Patrons Discovery Corporate Services Ltd Liberty Global NBC Universal International The Walt Disney Company Turner Broadcasting System Inc Viacom International Media Networks YouTube Major Patrons Accenture Channel 5 Deloitte Enders Analysis EY FremantleMedia Fujitsu IBM IMG Studios ITN KPMG McKinsey and Co S4C STV Group UKTV Virgin Media YouView

Patrons Autocue Digital Television Group ITV Anglia ITV Granada ITV London ITV Meridian ITV Tyne Tees ITV West ITV Yorkshire ITV Wales Lumina Search PricewaterhouseCoopers Quantel Raidió Teilifís Éireann University College, Falmouth UTV Television Vinten Broadcast

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