All Broadcast Awards articles – Page 16
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Best Single Drama: Common
Jimmy McGovern’s 90-minute drama Common, which told the story of a young man standing trial for murder under complicated circumstances, was a “jaw-dropping drama that never did the predictable” and an “outstanding exposition of a complex theme”, according to the judges.
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Best Daytime Programme: Couples Come Dine With Me
Shiver presented itself with a difficult task in creating a spin-off of one of the most successful formats of the 21st century, but triumphed as the first series of Couples Come Dine With Me performed well in Channel 4’s daytime schedule.
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Best Soap or Continuing Drama: EastEnders
“EastEnders has had a real reboot under Dominic Treadwell-Collins,” said one judge. “It feels like a fresh show again.”
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Best Music Programme: Coldplay: Ghost Stories
The judges were impressed by the scale and ambition of Sky Arts’ exclusive recording of Coldplay performing their latest album Ghost Stories.
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Best Documentary Programme: Storyville: Pussy Riot – A Punk Prayer
Injecting a little punk rock into the BBC Four schedule, Storyville’s film raised important questions about the battle lines drawn between artistic freedom and state control in Russia.
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Best Original Programme: Glasgow Girls
Glasgow Girls may not be the highest-profile show to win a Broadcast Award this year, but it is one of the most distinctive.
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Best Drama Series: Happy Valley
Such was the impact of Happy Valley when it aired in April 2014, it was used as one of Charlotte Moore’s ripostes to criticism of BBC One.
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Best Post Production House: Envy Post Production
This award is given to a post house that provides outstanding service, and there was broad agreement among the judges that Envy had consistently delivered to an industry-leading standard.
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Best Independent Production Company: Love Productions
Love Productions is never far from the headlines, but 2014 was the year its reputation for provocative programming was exceeded by its status as a producer of huge, high-quality hits.
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Best Documentary Series: Bedlam
Other shows in this category may have attracted more viewers or generated more column inches, but Bedlam tackled mental health with a rare mixture of honesty and humour.
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Channel of the Year: BBC One
In a multichannel, on-demand age, BBC One is still the channel the nation turns to for big events.
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Best Pre-School Programme: Lily’s Driftwood Bay
An incredible 50,000 photographs of more than 10,000 beachcombed items were taken to produce this 52-part series.
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Best Popular Factual Programme: The Great British Bake Off
The Great British Bake Off was a TV juggernaut before it moved to BBC One – but no one would have predicted what happened when its fifth series debuted on the flagship channel.
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Best Children's Programme: Operation Ouch! Goes Back In Time
Maverick TV has a long track record of successful spin-offs, and proved it can apply the formula to children’s programming with this stand-out episode of its medical format.
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Best Entertainment Programme: Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway
The popular Geordie duo have made it two Broadcast successes in a row (and three in total) after retaining the Best Entertainment Programme crown for ITV’s Saturday night format.
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Best News & Current Affairs Programme: Dispatches: Nigeria’s Hidden War
The key international news stories of 2014 focused on the Middle East and Ukraine, so Nigeria’s Hidden War was both an aptly titled and incredibly revealing film.
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Broadcast Awards 2015: the winners
An excellent crop of winners to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Broadcast Awards.
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Best Sports Programme: The Grand National 2014
The judges were united in their praise for Channel 4’s coverage of Pineau De Re’s triumph in the 167th Grand National in April last year.
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Broadcast Awards at 20: Top 10 shows
The creatives behind Broadcast’s top 10 award winning show look back at their work
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Broadcast Awards at 20: Indies
Best Independent Production Company winners explain the culture and ethos that aided their success