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Tuesday, 27 September 2011

National Television Awards - The 2012 shortlist

BACK: Dermot O'Leary will host again in January 2012

THE lengthy nominations list for the 2012 National Television Awards was released this morning.  Many TV favourites have been included on the list in one of the most glamorous ceremonies on the TV calendar.  New reality hits The Only Way is Essex and Made in Chelsea will make the ‘Reality’ award one to watch, as they have been nominated against the more familiar shows, The Apprentice and I’m A Celebrity.
     Jonathan Ross and Graham Norton will go head-to-head over the ‘Talkshow’ award, whilst Australian soaps Home and Away and Neighbours join the heavyweights from EastEnders and Coronation Street in the ‘Serial Drama’ category. 
     Fans can vote for their favourites at the official website; www.nationaltvawards.com.  The ceremony will once again be at London’s 02 Arena and hosted by X-Factor anchor, Dermot O’Leary.  The long list will be knockdown into a smaller shortlist in December, with the prestigious ceremony shown live on ITV1 in January 2012.
THE NOMINATIONS
TALENT SHOW
The X-Factor, Strictly Come Dancing, Britain’s Got Talent, Let’s Dance for Comic Relief, Dancing on Ice, Popstar to Operastar, Got to Dance, So You Think You Can Dance

COMEDY PANEL
Celebrity Juice, Pointless, 8 Out of 10 Cats, Mock the Week, QI, Have I Got News For You, Odd One In, Would I Lie To You?

DRAMA
Downton Abbey, Doctor Who, Waterloo Road, Glee, Wild at Heart, Casualty, Lewis, Shameless, Holby City, Law & Order UK, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Midsummer Murders, Silent Witness, Monroe, New Tricks, Spooks, DCI Banks: Aftermath, Scott & Bailey, Inspector George Gently, Whitechapel, Doc Martin, Merlin, Waking the Dead, Luther, Hustle, Above Suspicion: Deadly Intent, Lark Rise to Candleford, Case Histories, Kidnap and Ransom, The Shadow Line, Silk, Vera, Torchwood: Miracle Day, Upstairs Downstairs, South Riding

TALK SHOW
Loose Women, The Jonathan Ross Show, The Graham Norton Show, Paul O’Grady Live, Alan Carr: Chatty Man, Piers Morgan’s Life Stories, The Wright Stuff, The Rob Brydon Show, The Alan Titchmarsh Show, That Sunday Night Show

FACTUAL PROGRAMME
MasterChef, Top Gear, This Morning, The One Show, BBC Breakfast, Who Do You Think You Are?, Antiques Roadshow, Countryfile, Big Fat Gypsy Weddings, Billy Connolly’s Route 66, Crimewatch, Daybreak, DIY SOS: The Big Build, Strangeways, The Biggest Loser, Watchdog, Britten’s Hidden Heritage, An Idiot Abroad, Ocean Giants, Lost Land of the Tiger, Inside the Human Body, Turn Back Time- The High Street, Wallace & Gromit’s World of Invention, Royal Navy Caribbean Patrol, Human Planet, Long Lost Family

SITUATION COMEDY
Benidorm, Trollied, Not Going Out, Come Fly With Me, My Family, Miranda, Outnumbered, Candy Cabs, Friday Night Dinner, Whites, Reggie Perrin, In With the Flynns, Mrs. Brown’s Boys

SERIAL DRAMA
Coronation Street, EastEnders, Emmerdale, Neighbours, Doctors, Home & Away, Hollyoaks

REALITY PROGRAMME
Come Dine With Me, The Only Way is Essex, I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!, The Apprentice, Made in Chelsea, 71 Degrees North, Coach Trip, Peter Andre: The Next Chapter, Don’t Tell The Bride

ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMME
The Cube, Harry Hill’s TV Burp, Ant & Dec’s Push The Button, Live at the Apollo, All-Star Family Fortunes, Who Wants to Be A Millionaire, Total Wipeout, The Million Pound Drop, Take Me Out, John Bishop’s Britain, Celebrity Mastermind, Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow, Tonight’s The Night, Red or Black, Lee Mack’s All-Star Cast, University Challenge, The Magicians, Sing If You Can, New You’ve Been Framed, The National Lottery: In It To Win It, Dynamo: Magician Impossible    

ENTERTAINMENT PRESENTER
Ant & Dec, Davina McCall, Dermot O’Leary, Harry Hill, Graham Norton, Jonathan Ross, Tess Daly, Vernon Kay, Paul O’Grady, Michael McIntyre, Alan Carr, John Bishop, Keith Lemon, Cat Deeley, Myleene Klaas, Bradley Walsh, Paddy McGuiness, Sir Bruce Forsyth, Steve Jones, Lee Mack, Holly Willoughby, Chris Tarrant, Piers Morgan, John Barrowman, Phillip Schofield, Dale Winton, Alex Jones, Adrian Chiles, Rob Brydon, Lenny Henry, Richard Hammond      

NEWCOMER
Chris Fountain (Coronation Street), Jacqueline Jossa (EastEnders), Jimmy Akingbola (Holby City), William Beck (Casualty), Chelsea Halfpenny (Emmerdale), Danny Mac (Hollyoaks)

SERIAL DRAMA PERFORMANCE
Jessie Wallace (EastEnders), Danny Miller (Emmerdale), Alison King (Coronation Street), Simon Gregson (Coronation Street), Pauline Quirke (Emmerdale), Nina Wadia (EastEnders), Jane Danson (Coronation Street), Lucy Pargeter (Emmerdale), Steve McFadden (EastEnders), Jake Wood (EastEnders), Jeff Hordley (Emmerdale), Chris Gascoyne (Coronation Street), Emmett J.Scanlan (Hollyoaks), Katherine Kelly (Coronation Street), Claire Cooper (Hollyoaks), Charley Webb (Emmerdale), Lindsey Coulson (EastEnders), Kieran Richardson (Hollyoaks), Andrew Lancel (Coronation Street), Jonny Clarke (Hollyoaks), Nitin Ganatra (EastEnders), Rachel Shenton (Hollyoaks), Steve Halliwell (Emmerdale), Stephanie Davis (Hollyoaks)

FEMALE DRAMA PERFORMANCE
Karen Gillian (Doctor Who), Amanda Redman (New Tricks), Laila Rouass (Holby City), Georgia Taylor (Casualty), Suranne Jones (Scott & Bailey), Freema Agyeman (Law & Order: UK), Dawn Steele (Wild at Heart), Sarah Parish (Monroe), Michelle Dockery (Downton Abbey), Maxine Peake (Silk), Sally Carman (Shameless), Eve Myles (Torchwood), Caroline Catz (Doc Martin), Kelly Adams (Hustle), Nicola Walker (Spooks), Emilia Fox (Silent Witness), Lesley Sharp (Scott & Bailey), Jaye Jacobs (Waterloo Road), Joanne Froggatt (Downton Abbey), Kelly Reilly (Above Suspicion), Brenda Blethyn (Vera), Tara Fitzgerald (Waking The Dead), Katie McGrath (Merlin), Julia Sawalha (Lark Rise to Candleford), Keeley Hawes (Upstairs Downstairs), Anna Maxwell Martin (South Riding)  

MALE DRAMA PERFORMANCE
Stephen Tompkinson (DCI Banks), Matt Smith (Doctor Who), Martin Clunes (Doc Martin), Bradley Walsh (Law & Order: UK), Laurence Fox (Lewis), James Nesbitt (Monroe), Brendan Coyle (Downton Abbey), Idris Elba (Luther), Bradley James (Merlin), Martin Shaw (Inspector George Gently), Kevin Whately (Lewis), Alun Armstrong (New Tricks), John Barrowman (Torchwood), Guy Henry (Holby City), Phil Davis (Whitechapel), Colin Morgan (Merlin), Adrian Lester (Hustle), Peter Firth (Spooks), Dennis Waterman (New Tricks), Ben Turner (Casualty), Stephen Rea (The Shadow Line), Jason Isaacs (Case Histories), Alec Newman (Waterloo Road), David Morrissey (South Riding), James Bolam (New Tricks), Ciaran Hinds (Above Suspicion), Rupert Penry-Jones (Whitechapel), Trevor Eve (Kidnap and Ransom), David Threlfall (Shameless), Ed Stoppard (Upstairs, Downstairs), Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey), Neil Dudgeon (Midsummer Murders)              

Tuesday, 24 May 2011

The BAFTA's 2011 - Huge surprises all round

By Jason Wright (Entertainment Expert)


THE world famous Grosvenor House once again played host to the most coveted night in British television, the BAFTA’s.  Considered as British television’s equivalent to the Oscars, Sunday night’s ceremony, again broadcasted on BBC1, was anticipated to have another batch of expectant results.  But many people were wrong!
     The first key shock was in ‘Best Actor’ when ‘Eric and Ernie’s’ Daniel Rigby beat hot rivals Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock) and Matt Smith (Doctor Who) to the honour, the latter of two continuing a losing trend in awards.  Popular drama Sherlock did make up for winning the ‘Supporting Actor’ for Martin Freeman and then beating critically-acclaimed Downton Abbey to ‘Drama Series’.
     Despite its 50th anniversary storyline, Coronation Street just can’t buy a major award if its life depended on it as EastEnders again beat them to the ‘Continuing Drama’ award.  The BBC Four drama though ‘The Road to Coronation Street’ did win ‘Single Drama.’  The next surprise came when both popular US shows Glee and Mad Men were beaten by The Killing to the ‘International’ award.
     BBC News coverage of the historical transfer from Labour to coalition government was second best to ITV News feature on the infamous Cumbria shootings of Derrick Bird last summer for the ‘News Coverage’ honour.  BBC Sport however won the ‘Sport’ award for its excellent coverage of last year’s F1 title decider in Abu Dhabi.  Next to fall shockingly into losing was The X-Factor.  It lost the ‘Entertainment Programme’ award to ever-increasingly popular ITV1 gameshow The Cube, which fittingly concluded its third series on the same night, and its top prize of £250,000 is still yet to be won.
DESERVED: Sir Trevor won the BAFTA Fellowship
     Former ITN newsreader Sir Trevor McDonald was deservedly honoured with this year’s ‘BAFTA Fellowship’ award, to honour his work in news and current affairs for over 30 years.  Ceremony host Graham Norton also got an award for ‘Entertainment Performance’ for his work.  His chatshow has turned out to be a huge successful replacement for Jonathan Ross in BBC1’s late Friday night slot.
     To conclude the night of surprises, the ‘Audience Award,’ voted for by YouTube viewers, was expected to go to Downton Abbey but instead was awarded to ITV2’s real-life soap The Only Way Is Essex.  It may still have its critics but it has proven to become ITV2’s most popular programme on its launch last October.  It has made household names in its entire cast including Mark Wright and Amy Childs as well as being famed for its constant use of the phrase, ‘shut up!’  A move or a broadcast slot on ITV1 will soon surely beckon now.
     In conclusion, this year’s awards have certainly proven one testimony, never underestimate the underdog.

BAFTA 2011 WINNERS
Actor – Daniel Rigby
Actress – Vicky McClure
Supporting Actor – Martin Freeman
Supporting Actress – Lauren Socha
Entertainment Performance – Graham Norton
Female Performance in a Comedy Role – Jo Brand
Male Performance in a Comedy Role – Steve Coogan
Single Drama – The Road to Coronation Street
Drama Series – Sherlock
Drama Serial – Any Human Heart
Continuing Drama – EastEnders
International – The Killing
Factual Series – Welcome to Lagos
Specialist Factual – Flying Monsters in 3D
Single Documentary – Between Life and Death
Features – Hugh’s Fish Fight
Current Affairs – Zimbabwe’s Forgotten Children
News Coverage – ITV News at Ten: The Cumbria Murders
Sport – Formula 1: The Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
New Media – Wallace & Gromit’s World of Invention
Entertainment Programme – The Cube
Comedy Programme – Harry & Paul
Situation Comedy – Rev
YouTube Audience Award – The Only Way Is Essex
Special Recognition Award – Peter Bennett-Jones
BAFTA Fellowship – Sir Trevor McDonald