Winners

• Best Actor
  • Winner: Michael Gambon
    Michael Gambon
    Sir Michael John Gambon, CBE is an Irish actor who has worked in theatre, television and film. A highly respected theatre actor, Gambon is recognised for his roles as Philip Marlowe in the BBC television serial The Singing Detective, as Jules Maigret in the 1990s ITV serial Maigret, and as...
    
     — Longitude (Channel 4
    Channel 4
    Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...
    
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  • Other nominees: Steven Mackintosh
    Steven Mackintosh
    -Personal life:Mackintosh was born in Cambridge, the son of Dorothy and Malcolm Mackintosh. He has a sister, Lynda Ellingham .He is married to the actress Lisa Jacobs and the couple have two children, Martha and Blythe.-Film:...
    
     — Care (BBC One
    BBC One
    BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...
    
    ); Pete Postlethwaite
    Pete Postlethwaite
    Peter William "Pete" Postlethwaite, OBE, was an English stage, film and television actor.After minor television appearances including in The Professionals, Postlethwaite's first success came with the film Distant Voices, Still Lives in 1988. He played a mysterious lawyer, Mr...
    
     — The Sins
    The Sins
    The Sins is a television series from 2000. It was directed by David Yates, Sallie Aprahamian and Simon Curtis and written by William Ivory. It centres on Len Green , a former bank robber and getaway driver, who has retired from the criminal life and joined the undertaker's run by his uncle...
    
     (BBC One); Steve McFadden
    Steve McFadden
    Steve McFadden is an English actor, known for his role as Phil Mitchell in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, which he has played since1990.-Early life:...
    
     — EastEnders
    EastEnders
    EastEnders is a British television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985 and continuing to today. EastEnders storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional London Borough of Walford in the East End...
    
     (BBC
    BBC
    The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
    
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• Best Actress
  • Winner: Judi Dench
    Judi Dench
    Dame Judith Olivia "Judi" Dench, CH, DBE, FRSA is an English film, stage and television actress.Dench made her professional debut in 1957 with the Old Vic Company. Over the following few years she played in several of William Shakespeare's plays in such roles as Ophelia in Hamlet, Juliet in Romeo...
    
     — Last of the Blonde Bombshells (BBC One)
  • Other nominees: Geraldine James
    Geraldine James
    Geraldine James, OBE is an English actress.-Early life and family:James was born in Maidenhead, Berkshire, to a cardiologist father...
    
     — The Sins (BBC One); Amanda Redman
    Amanda Redman
    -External links:* ArtistsTheatreSchool.com* The-Little.co.uk...
    
     — At Home with the Braithwaites
    At Home with the Braithwaites
    At Home with the Braithwaites is a British comedy-drama television series, created and written by Sally Wainwright . The storyline follows a suburban family from Leeds, whose life is turned upside down when the mother of the family wins 38 million pounds on the lottery...
    
     (ITV); Fay Ripley
    Fay Ripley
    Fay Ripley is an English actress and recipe author. Born in Wimbledon, London, Ripley is a graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama . Her first professional role was in the chorus of a pantomime version of Around the World in 80 Days...
    
     — Cold Feet
    Cold Feet
    Cold Feet is a British comedy-drama television series produced by Granada Television for the ITV network. The series was created and principally written by Mike Bullen as a follow-up to his award-winning 1997 Comedy Premiere of the same name. The storyline follows three couples experiencing the...
    
     (ITV); Alison Steadman
    Alison Steadman
    Alison Steadman OBE is an English actress. She established her career with roles such as Beverley in Abigail's Party and Candice Marie in Nuts in May for the director Mike Leigh, to whom she was once married. In addition to her stage and radio work, she has had lead roles in The Singing Detective,...
    
     — Fat Friends
    Fat Friends
    Fat Friends is an ITV drama , following a group of overweight people, their laughter and pain and addresses the absurdities of dieting in our modern age. The drama looks at people and how they relate to one another and use body weight as an excuse for all sorts of failings in their relationships,...
    
     (ITV)
• Best Comedy (Programme or Series)
  • Winner: Da Ali G Show
    Da Ali G Show
    Da Ali G Show is the name of two related satirical TV series created by and starring British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen and featuring the character Ali G....
    
     (TalkBack Productions
    Talkback Productions
    Talkback Productions was formed in 1981 by Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones. The company is one of the UK’s leading production companies and part of the RTL Group, a major European broadcast and content company....
    
     / Channel 4)
  • Other nominees: Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned
    Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned
    Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned is a free-form talk show hosted by British comedians/personalities David Baddiel and Frank Skinner and produced by Avalon Television...
    
     (Avalon Television / ITV); Smack the Pony
    Smack the Pony
    Smack the Pony is a British sketch comedy show that ran from 1999 until 2003 on Channel 4. Its title was intended to sound like a euphemism for female masturbation; the working title was Spot the Pony. The main performers and writers on the show were Fiona Allen, Doon Mackichan and Sally Phillips...
    
     (TalkBack Productions / Channel 4); Victoria Wood With All The Trimmings
    Victoria Wood with All The Trimmings
    Victoria Wood with All The Trimmings was a one-off Christmas comedy sketch show special written by and starring comedienne Victoria Wood. It was broadcast on BBC1 on Christmas Day 2000....
    
     (Good Fun
    Good Fun
    Good Fun is a play by Victoria Wood, first performed in 1980. It is set in an Arts Centre in North West England.-Origins:Wood, keen to trade on her previous stage success Talent, was commissioned to write another play by impresario Michael Codron. "I wrote one called Pals, which he said was 'very...
    
     / Ovation Entertainment Limited / BBC One)
• Best Comedy Performance
  • Winner: Sacha Baron Cohen
    Sacha Baron Cohen
    Sacha Noam Baron Cohen is an English stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and voice artist. He is most widely known for his portrayal of three unorthodox fictional characters: Ali G, Borat, and Brüno...
    
     — Da Ali G Show (Channel 4)
  • Other nominees: Caroline Aherne
    Caroline Aherne
    Caroline Mary Aherne is an English comedian and BAFTA winning writer and actress, best known for Mrs Merton and The Royle Family.- Background :...
    
     — The Royle Family
    The Royle Family
    The Royle Family is a popular, BAFTA award-winning television comedy drama produced by Granada Television for the BBC, which ran for three series between 1998 and 2000, and specials from 2006 onwards...
    
     (BBC One); Kathy Burke
    Kathy Burke
    Katherine Lucy Bridget Burke is an English actress, comedienne, playwright and theatre director. She is best known for her portrayals of Perry in the Harry Enfield film Kevin and Perry Go Large, and of Linda La Hughes in the British sitcom Gimme Gimme Gimme...
    
     — Gimme Gimme Gimme (BBC Two
    BBC Two
    BBC Two is the second television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It covers a wide range of subject matter, but tending towards more 'highbrow' programmes than the more mainstream and popular BBC One. Like the BBC's other domestic TV and radio...
    
    ); Dawn French — The Vicar of Dibley
    The Vicar of Dibley
    The Vicar of Dibley is a British sitcom created by Richard Curtis and written for its lead actress, Dawn French, by Curtis and Paul Mayhew-Archer, with contributions from Kit Hesketh-Harvey. It aired from 1994 to 2007...
    
     (BBC One)
• Best Drama Serial
  • Winner: Longitude (Granada Television
    Granada Television
    Granada Television is the ITV contractor for North West England. Based in Manchester since its inception, it is the only surviving original ITA franchisee from 1954 and is ITV's most successful....
    
     / A&E Network
    A&E Network
    The A&E Network is a United States-based cable and satellite television network with headquarters in New York City and offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, London, Los Angeles and Stamford. A&E also airs in Canada and Latin America. Initially named the Arts & Entertainment Network, A&E launched...
    
     / Channel 4)
  • Other nominees: Nature Boy
    Nature Boy
    Nature Boy is a song written by eden ahbez and later popularised by Nat King Cole. It may also refer to:In music:* "Nature Boy", a song by Primus from their album 'Pork Soda'...
    
     (BBC
    BBC
    The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
    
     / BBC Two); Never Never
    Never Never
    Never Never may refer to* Never Never , a colloquial term used to describe the Australian outback* NeverNever, a fantasy webcomic by John "The Gneech" Robey* "Never Never" , the only single released by The Assembly...
    
     (Company Pictures
    Company Pictures
    Company Pictures is an independent British television production company which has produced drama programming for many broadcasters. Their productions have included:*drama series Wild at Heart for ITV1, written by Ashley Pharoah....
    
     / Channel 4); This is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper (Granada Television / ITV)
• Best Drama Series
  British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series
  The British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series is one of the major categories of the British Academy Television Awards , the primary awards ceremony of the British television industry...
  
  
  • Winner: Clocking Off
    Clocking Off
    Clocking Off is a British television drama series which ran on the BBC One network for four series from 2000 to 2003. It was produced for the BBC by the independent Red Production Company, and created by Paul Abbott...
    
     (Red Production Company
    Red Production Company
    Red Production Company is a British independent television production company, formed in 1998 by Nicola Shindler, an experienced television producer who had worked on such prestige dramas as Our Friends in the North and Cracker...
    
     / BBC One)
  • Other nominees: The Cops
    The Cops (TV series)
    The Cops is a British television series made by World Productions for the BBC.The production, set in the fictional town of Stanton in Northern England, was noted for its documentary-style camerawork and uncompromising portrayal of the police force...
    
     (World Productions
    World Productions
    World Productions is a British television production company, founded in the early 1990s by acclaimed producer Tony Garnett. The company's first major series was the police drama Between The Lines , and throughout the decade they went on to produce a succession of highly successful drama series...
    
     / BBC Two); Fat Friends
    Fat Friends
    Fat Friends is an ITV drama , following a group of overweight people, their laughter and pain and addresses the absurdities of dieting in our modern age. The drama looks at people and how they relate to one another and use body weight as an excuse for all sorts of failings in their relationships,...
    
     (Rollem Productions / Tiger Aspect Productions
    Tiger Aspect Productions
    Tiger Aspect Productions is a British television production company, particularly noted for its situation comedies. Co-founded by producer Peter Bennett-Jones, its productions have included popular hits such as The Vicar of Dibley and Mr. Bean...
    
     / Yorkshire Television
    Yorkshire Television
    Yorkshire Television, now officially known as ITV Yorkshire and sometimes unofficially abbreviated to YTV, is a British television broadcaster and the contractor for the Yorkshire franchise area on the ITV network...
    
     / ITV); The Sins (BBC / BBC One)
• Best Single Drama
  • Winner: Care (BBC / BBC One)
  • Other nominees: Donovan Quick (Making Waves Film & TV Limited / BBC Scotland
    BBC Scotland
    BBC Scotland is a constituent part of the British Broadcasting Corporation, the publicly-funded broadcaster of the United Kingdom. It is, in effect, the national broadcaster for Scotland, having a considerable amount of autonomy from the BBC's London headquarters, and is run by the BBC Trust, who...
    
     / BBC Two); Nice Girl
    Nice girl
    Nice Girl? is a 1941 musical film about a girl and her two sisters. She is the nice girl of the family, but when Richard Calvert Franchot Tone comes into town to give her father a scholarship for his dietary studies, she finds her opportunity to get some scandal in her life...
    
     (BBC / BBC Two); Storm Damage (BBC / BBC Two)
• Best Soap Opera
  • Winner: Emmerdale
    Emmerdale
    Emmerdale, is a long-running British soap opera set in Emmerdale , a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales. Created by Kevin Laffan, Emmerdale was first broadcast on 16 October 1972...
    
     (Yorkshire Television / ITV)
  • Other nominees: Coronation Street
    Coronation Street
    Coronation Street is a British soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford. Created by Tony Warren, Coronation Street was first broadcast on 9 December 1960...
    
     (Granada Television / ITV); EastEnders
    EastEnders
    EastEnders is a British television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985 and continuing to today. EastEnders storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional London Borough of Walford in the East End...
    
     (BBC / BBC One); Hollyoaks
    Hollyoaks
    Hollyoaks is a long-running British television soap opera, first broadcast on Channel 4 on 23 October 1995. It was originally devised by Phil Redmond, who has also devised shows including Brookside and Grange Hill...
    
     (Mersey Television
    Mersey Television
    Lime Pictures, formerly known as Mersey Television, is a British television production company, founded by producer and writer Phil Redmond in the early 1980s....
    
     / Channel 4)
• Best News and Current Affairs Journalism
  • Winner: Out of Africa (Insight News Productions / CNN
    CNN
    Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
    
     / Channel 4)
  • Other nominees: Mozambique
    Mozambique
    Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique , is a country in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest...
    
     Floods (BBC / BBC One / BBC Two); Mozambique Floods (the event and the aftermath) (ITN / ITV); Panorama
    Panorama (TV series)
    Panorama is a BBC Television current affairs documentary programme, which was first broadcast in 1953, and is the longest-running public affairs television programme in the world. Panorama has been presented by many well known BBC presenters, including Richard Dimbleby, Robin Day, David Dimbleby...
    
     — Who Bombed Omagh? (BBC / BBC One)
• Best Entertainment Performance
  • Winner: Graham Norton
    Graham Norton
    Graham William Walker, known by his stage name Graham Norton , is an Irish actor, comedian, television presenter and columnist...
    
     — So Graham Norton
    So Graham Norton
    So Graham Norton is a British television programme, hosted by Irish personality Graham Norton. It ran from 3 July 1998 to 1 March 2002.-Theme:...
    
     (Channel 4)
  • Other nominees: Rory Bremner
    Rory Bremner
    Roderick "Rory" Keith Ogilvy Bremner, FKC is a Scottish impressionist, playwright and comedian, noted for his work in political satire...
    
     — Blair Did It All Go Wrong? (Channel 4); Angus Deayton
    Angus Deayton
    Gordon Angus Deayton is an English actor, writer, musician, comedian and broadcaster. He is best known for his role as Victor Meldrew's long-suffering neighbour Patrick Trench in the comedy series One Foot in the Grave...
    
     — Have I Got News For You
    Have I Got News for You
    Have I Got News for You is a British television panel show produced by Hat Trick Productions for the BBC. It is based loosely on the BBC Radio 4 show The News Quiz, and has been broadcast since 1990, currently the BBC's longest-ever running television panel show...
    
     (BBC One / BBC Two); Paul Merton
    Paul Merton
    Paul Merton is a British comedian, writer, actor and television presenter. Known for his improvisation skill, his humour is rooted in deadpan, surreal and sometimes dark comedy...
    
     — Have I Got News For You (BBC One / BBC Two)
• Best Factual Series or Strand
  • Winner: Britain at War in Colour (TWI / Carlton Television
    Carlton Television
    Carlton Television was the ITV franchise holder for London and the surrounding counties including the cities of Solihull and Coventry of the West Midlands, south Suffolk, middle and east Hampshire, Oxfordshire, south Bedfordshire, south Northamptonshire, parts of Herefordshire & Worcestershire,...
    
     / ITV)
  • Other nominees: Castaway 2000
    Castaway 2000
    Castaway 2000 was a reality TV programme commissioned by the BBC in 2000.-The Concept:Castaway 2000 is a successful British television show that, because it was aired in the same year that Survivor first aired in the United States and Big Brother first aired in Great Britain, is often regarded as a...
    
     (Lion TV / BBC Scotland / BBC One); Fifteen (Windfall Films / Channel 4); Horizon (BBC / BBC Two)
• Best Feature
  • Winner: The Naked Chef (Optomen
    Optomen
    Optomen is an independent television production company with Optomen Television Ltd. for the United Kingdom and Optomen Productions Inc. launched in 2002 for the United States.-United Kingdom and the United States:...
    
     / BBC Two)
  • Other nominees: Faking It
    Faking It
    Faking It was a television programme originating on Channel 4 which has spawned various international remakes, including a US version which began in 2003 on the TLC network...
    
     (RDF Media
    RDF Media
    Zodiak Media is a Anglo-American television production company. It was formed in 2010 when RDF Media Group was acquired by, and merged with Zodiak Entertainment...
    
     / Channel 4); House of Horrors
    House of Horrors
    House of Horrors was a low-budget horror film released by Universal Pictures, starring Rondo Hatton as a madman, named "The Creeper." It was also known as Murder Mansion and in the United Kingdom as Joan Medford is Missing.-Plot:...
    
     (Granada Television / ITV); What the Romans Did for Us
    What the Romans Did for Us
    What the Romans Did for Us, is a 2000 BBC documentary series that examines the impact of the Romans on modern society.The name of the programme is derived from the cult movie Monty Python's Life of Brian, referencing the famous scene where the People's Front of Judea discuss "What have the Romans...
    
     (BBC / BBC Two)
• Flaherty Award for Single Documentary
  • Winner: 100% White (Diverse Productions / Channel 4)
  • Other nominees: The Boy David - The Return (Man Alive Group / BBC One); Endurance: Shackleton and the Antarctic (White Mountain Films / NOVA
    NOVA (TV series)
    Nova is a popular science television series from the U.S. produced by WGBH Boston. It can be seen on the Public Broadcasting Service in the United States, and in more than 100 other countries...
    
     / American Museum of Natural History
    American Museum of Natural History
    The American Museum of Natural History , located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, United States, is one of the largest and most celebrated museums in the world...
    
     / Channel 4); The Man who Bought Mustique (Café Productions / Channel 4)
• Huw Wheldon Award for Specialist Factual
  • Winner: Howard Goodall's Big Bangs (Tiger Aspect Productions / Channel 4)
  • Other nominees: Arena — Wisconsin Death Trip (BBC / BBC Two); Elizabeth (United Productions / Channel 4); A History of Britain by Simon Schama (BBC / BBC Two)
• Entertainment Programme or Series
  • Winner: So Graham Norton (So Television
    SO Television
    So Television is a production company established in 1998, founded by Irish comedian Graham Norton and Graham Stuart to make high quality entertainment television.. It is now one of the fastest growing independent production companies in the UK and stands at number 29 in the INDIES League 2005...
    
     / United Productions / Channel 4)
  • Other nominees: Have I Got News For You (Hat Trick Productions / BBC One / BBC Two); The Weakest Link
    The Weakest Link
    The Weakest Link is a television game show which first appeared in the United Kingdom on BBC Two on 14 August 2000 and will end its run in 2012 when its host Anne Robinson ends her contract. The original British version of the show airs around the world on BBC Entertainment...
    
     (BBC / BBC Two); Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
    Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (UK game show)
    Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? is a British television quiz show which offers a maximum cash prize of one million pounds for correctly answering successive multiple-choice questions of increasing difficulty...
    
     (Celador
    Celador
    Celador is a global light entertainment company originally formed as an independent production company in 1983. It has produced a number of popular light entertainment shows and is probably best known for Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and co-producing the film Slumdog Millionaire which collected...
    
     / ITV)
• Situation Comedy Award
  • Winner: Black Books
    Black Books
    Black Books is a British sitcom television series created by Dylan Moran and Graham Linehan and produced by Nira Park, first broadcast on Channel 4 from 2000 to 2004...
    
     (Assembly Film & Television / Channel 4)
  • Other nominees: Blackadder: Back & Forth
    Blackadder: Back & Forth
    Blackadder: Back & Forth is a 1999 short film based on the BBC mock-historical comedy series Blackadder that marks the end of the Blackadder saga...
    
     (Tiger Aspect Productions / Sky One
    Sky One
    Sky1 is the flagship BSkyB entertainment channel available in the United Kingdom and Ireland.The channel first launched on 26 April 1982 as Satellite Television, and is the fourth-oldest TV channel in the United Kingdom, behind BBC One , ITV and BBC Two...
    
    ); One Foot in the Grave
    One Foot in the Grave
    One Foot in the Grave is a BBC television sitcom series written by David Renwick. The show ran for six series, including seven Christmas specials, two Comic Relief specials, over an eleven year period, from early 1990 to late 2000...
    
     (BBC / BBC One); The Royle Family (Granada Television / BBC One)
• Sport
  • Winner: Sydney Olympics 2000
    2000 Summer Olympics
    The Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games or the Millennium Games/Games of the New Millennium, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated between 15 September and 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...
    
     (BBC / BBC One / BBC Two)
  • Other nominees: British Grand Prix 2000
    2000 British Grand Prix
    The 2000 British Grand Prix was a Formula One race held at Silverstone on April 23, 2000.- Report :Qualifying was a surprise with Rubens Barrichello on pole position, with Heinz-Harald Frentzen second, Mika Häkkinen third, David Coulthard fourth, Michael Schumacher down in fifth and Jenson Button a...
    
     (Mach1 / ITV); Test Cricket
    Test cricket
    Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...
    
     (Sunset and Vine / Channel 4); Today at the Paralympics
    2000 Summer Paralympics
    The 2000 Paralympic Games were held in Sydney, Australia, from 18 October to 29 October. The eleventh Summer Paralympic Games, an estimated 3800 athletes took part in the Sydney programme. They commenced with the opening ceremony on 18 October 2000...
    
     (VTV Limited / BBC Two)
• Led Grade Audience Award as Voted by Readers of the Radio Times
  Radio Times
  Radio Times is a UK weekly television and radio programme listings magazine, owned by the BBC. It has been published since 1923 by BBC Magazines, which also provides an on-line listings service under the same title...
  
  
  • Winner: Inspector Morse
    Inspector Morse (TV series)
    Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis. Dexter makes a cameo appearance in all but three of the episodes....
    
     — The Remorseful Day (ITV)
  • Other nominees: Hero of the Hour (ITV); Seeing Red (ITV); A Touch of Frost
    A Touch of Frost (TV series)
    A Touch of Frost is a television detective series produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV from 1992 until 2010, initially based on the Frost novels by R. D. Wingfield....
    
     (ITV); The Vicar of Dibley (BBC One)
• Innovation Award
  • Winner: Big Brother
    Big Brother (UK)
    Big Brother UK is the British version of the Dutch Big Brother television format, which takes its name from the character in George Orwell's 1948 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four...
    
     (Bazal / Channel 4)
  • Other nominees: Castaway 2000 (Lion TV / BBC Scotland / BBC One); Doctors
    Doctors (BBC Soap Opera)
    Doctors is a British daytime television soap opera, set in the fictional Midland town of Letherbridge, defined as being close to the City of Birmingham. It was created by Chris Murray; Mal Young drove its development, and Carson Black was the original producer. The first episode was broadcast on...
    
     (BBC / BBC One); Nice Girl (BBC / BBC Two)
• The Dennis Potter
  Dennis Potter
  Dennis Christopher George Potter was an English dramatist, best known for The Singing Detective. His widely acclaimed television dramas mixed fantasy and reality, the personal and the social. He was particularly fond of using themes and images from popular culture.-Biography:Dennis Potter was born...
  
   Award
  • Lynda La Plante
    Lynda La Plante
    Lynda La Plante, CBE is an English author, screenwriter and former actress, best known for writing the Prime Suspect television crime series....
    
    
• The Alan Clarke
  Alan Clarke
  Alan Clarke was a television and film director, producer and writer, born in Wallasey, Merseyside, England.Most of Clarke's output was for television rather than cinema, including work for the famous play strands The Wednesday Play and Play for Today...
  
   Award
  • Ruth Caleb
• Special Award
  • Coronation Street
    Coronation Street
    Coronation Street is a British soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford. Created by Tony Warren, Coronation Street was first broadcast on 9 December 1960...
    
    
  • Patrick Moore
    Patrick Moore
    Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore, CBE, FRS, FRAS is a British amateur astronomer who has attained prominent status in astronomy as a writer, researcher, radio commentator and television presenter of the subject, and who is credited as having done more than any other person to raise the profile of...