BPG BROADCASTING PRESS GUILD
Television and Radio Awards 2005
Not to be published before 00.001am on Friday 15 April
2005
One of UK television’s most respected former
executives, Sir Denis Forman, will attend an Awards
ceremony in London
today (Friday 15 April) to receive a lifetime achievement
Award from members of the Broadcasting Press Guild.
Sir
Denis, now 87, joined Granada Television in 1955, the year
that ITV went on air, and retired 32 years
later as
chairman
of the Manchester-based company. Under his leadership,
Granada produced some of the network’s most
prestigious programmes, including World In Action,
Brideshead Revisited, Disappearing
World, and the 15-hour series The Jewel In The Crown,
which he helped adapt from the Raj Quartet novels
of Paul Scott.
Sir
Denis, who was seriously wounded in World War 2 and now lives
for much of the year in India, will receive
the Harvey
Lee award for Outstanding Contribution to Broadcasting,
previously given to David Attenborough, Michael Grade
and Greg Dyke.
ITV celebrates its 50th anniversary later this year.
Today’s Awards, the 31st to be presented by the Guild,
are a triumph for Channel 4, which has taken six out of the
ten awards for terrestrial television. The channel’s
winning programmes include: Shameless, Paul Abbott’s
semi-autobiographical drama series about a dysfunctional but
resilient family on a Northern housing estate; and Omagh, Paul
Greengrass and Guy Hibbert’s harrowing but brilliant
reconstruction of the events of 15 August 1998, when 29
people were killed by a Real IRA bomb.
The
BBC’s four winners include the hugely popular
Strictly Come Dancing and its veteran host Bruce
Forsyth. Bruce is
currently filming in America but another broadcasting
legend, Terry Wogan,
will be present to accept his Award as Radio Broadcaster
of the Year. His early morning show on BBC Radio
2, Wake Up To
Wogan, enjoys the highest audience rating (8 million)
of any radio programme.
The
Broadcasting Press Guild is an association of more than a
hundred journalists who write and broadcast
about television,
radio and the media generally. The Awards will
be presented
at a lunch at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, by
the Guild’s
chairman, Kate Bulkley.
Full list of awards follows.
Further
information available from:
Richard Last on 01483 764895 or 07790 916263.
Full list of awards: Best
Single Drama: Omagh (Tiger Aspect for Channel
4)
Best Drama Series/Serial: Shameless
(Company Pictures for Channel 4)
Best Documentary Series: The Power of
Nightmares (BBC Two)
Best Single Documentary: The Boy Whose
Skin Fell Off (Yipp films for Channel 4)
Best Entertainment: Strictly Come Dancing
(BBC One)
Best Factual Entertainment: Ramsay’s
Kitchen Nightmares (Optomen Television for Channel 4)
Best Actor: Mark Strong (The Long Firm,
BBC Two)
Best Actress: Anne Marie Duff (Shameless,
Channel 4)
Best Performer (Non-acting): Bruce Forsyth
(Strictly Come Dancing,
BBC
One)
Writer’s Award: Paul Abbott (Shameless,
Channel 4)
Radio Programme of the Year: From Our
Own Correspondent (BBC Radio 4)
Radio Broadcaster of the Year: Terry
Wogan (Wake up to Wogan,
BBC
Radio 2)
Multichannel Award: Hex (Shine for Sky
One)
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