Derry Girls picks up Best Comedy and Best Writer awards &
This is Going To Hurt stars take Best Actor and Best Actress trophies.

Two hit programmes picked up a pair of prizes at this year’s Broadcasting Press Guild Awards: Channel 4’s Derry Girls as Best Comedy plus Best Writer for Lisa McGee and the stars of BBC One’s This Is Going to Hurt – Ben Whishaw and Ambika Mod – for Best Actor and Best Actress.

The most popular new reality show on British TV, The Traitors, took the Best Entertainment title by a wide margin of votes, while BBC One shows also grabbed three other trophies: Sherwood for Best Drama (4+ episodes); The Real Mo Farah for Best Documentary Mini Series; and Frozen Planet II for Best Documentary (4+ episodes). The original Frozen Planet series won the same prize back in 2012.

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Lisa McGee, with her two BPG Awards trophies for Derry Girls, and Jack Rooke, winner of the BPG Breakthrough Award.

 

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The Broadcasting Press Guild is an association of journalists who specialise in writing and broadcasting about television, radio and the media generally. We began in 1974 as a breakaway body from the Critics’ Circle with a membership of 27, and now comfortably number over 100. Between them our members cover all the major national newspapers and leading trade journals; they include media correspondents, reviewers, previewers and feature writers. We divide about 50-50 between staff journalists … [Read More...]