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Winners & Finalists 7 February 2018 Grosvenor House Hotel Park Lane London CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE WINNERS AND NOMINEES OF THE BROADCAST AWARDS 2018! PROJECT SOLUTIONS | OUTSIDE BROADCAST | EQUIPMENT RENTAL SYSTEMS INTEGRATION | RF SOLUTIONS | EVENT COMMUNICATIONS +44 (0)845 820 0000 | [email protected] | www.gearhousebroadcast.com CONTENTS A YEAR OF SENSATIONAL TELEVISION CATEGORIES 05 DOCUMENTARY he remarkable breadth of British TV is evident in the winners of the Broadcast Awards 2018. PROGRAMME T Traditional broadcasters and digital giants rub 07 MULTICHANNEL shoulders, while established favourites share the spoils with emerging titles. It proves that sensational 09 INTERNATIONAL programming can come from many sources. PROGRAMME SALES For Dave’s Taskmaster to edge out the likes of Strictly Come Dancing as Best Entertainment Programme 11 COMEDY Traditional is testament to the power of the slow-burn hit. 13 CHILDREN’S broadcasters and Best Multichannel Programme winner Love Island digital giants rub was one of the shows of the year, and proved that the 15 SINGLE DRAMA shoulders, while right format can still bring young people fl ocking to TV, established while Zeppotron’s San Junipero episode of Black Mirror 17 DAYTIME favourites share for Netfl ix was deservedly named Best Single Drama. 19 POPULAR FACTUAL the spoils with Left Bank’s Netfl ix series The Crown may have been emerging titles beaten by BBC One’s Three Girls for Best Drama 21 SOAP OR CONTINUING Series, but the transformative commission for DRAMA Andy Harries’ drama business was a key factor in it CHRIS CURTIS landing Best Independent Production Company. 23 MUSIC EDITOR Meanwhile, BBC One landed Channel of the Year. BROADCAST With trendy new players producing so much great 25 DOCUMENTARY SERIES content, the emotional power of Rio Ferdinand: 26 THE JUDGES Being Mum & Dad and the sheer delight of Planet Earth II proved mainstream telly still has few peers. 29 SPORTS 31 PRE-SCHOOL THE BROADCAST AWARDS 2018 WERE SPONSORED BY 33 ENTERTAINMENT 35 NEWS & CURRENT AFFAIRS 37 ORIGINAL PROGRAMME 39 DRAMA SERIES OR SERIAL 41 SPECIAL RECOGNITION 43 TIMELINE TV MOMENT OF THE YEAR 45 POST-PRODUCTION HOUSE 47 INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION COMPANY 49 CHANNEL OF THE YEAR 50 ROLL OF HONOUR BROADCASTNOW.CO.UK Broadcast AWARDS 2018 | 3 Room to create. Room to breathe. S I LV E R G L A D E Sponsors - Best Documentary Program Post Production on the South Bank silverglade.com Award sponsored by BEST DOCUMENTARY PROGRAMME HIGHLY COMMENDED SLUM BRITAIN: 50 YEARS ON ITN Productions for Channel 5 Film-makers Marcel Mettelsiefen and Stephen Ellis turned their lens on a haunting set of images by Nick Hedges, who was commissioned by Shelter in the late 1960s to photograph families living in abysmal housing conditions. To mark the charity’s half-centenary, the film traced children from Nick’s pictures, and heard stories from today’s homeless population. SHORTLISTED THE DRUG TRIAL: EMERGENCY AT THE HOSPITAL Raw TV for BBC Two A case study in how to make a specialist factual story unfold like a thriller, Drug Trial examined the Northwick Park drug trial of 2006, which scandalised the medical profession and gripped the media. Raw TV explored the true story behind the headlines, unravelling a spellbinding case that played out like a medical detective mystery. HORIZON: ANTARCTICA – RIO FERDINAND: BEING MUM AND DAD ICE STATION RESCUE BBC Studios for BBC Two Only the Best Productions for BBC One Film-maker Natalie Hewit spent three months living in Antarctica, chronicling how a team of 90 people set about moving few weeks after losing his wife Rebecca to cancer, Britain’s research base Halley VI, which was in danger of splitting away from the former Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand continent due to shifting ice and an announced his retirement from professional foot- A encroaching crevasse. Uprooting the base, ball. A year on and still trying to come to terms with his This film has which was built on skis, was one of the loss while looking after three children, Ferdinand and encouraged a toughest moving jobs on the planet. Only the Best Productions approached the BBC about making a film to explore the issue of bereavement. cross-platform THE SECRET LIFE OF PRISONS Shine TV for Channel 4 In director Matt Smith’s doc, Ferdinand shared his conversation Shine TV’s film documented the brutal reality family’s story and met others who had suffered a that is the sign of life inside UK prisons by using footage similar loss. He explored how people cope with the loss of emotionally shot covertly by the prisoners themselves. While film-makers have been denied official of a partner or parent, and why society shrinks from intelligent discussing death, grief and bereavement. access to film in UK prisons, Shine drew film-making from hundreds of prisoner-shot videos on The film had a significant appealto young viewers, the web, which are secretly uploaded to the bringing in 1.2 million 16-34s – nearly four times internet from phones smuggled into the jails. the average for factual on BBC One. In addition, the programme drew nearly double the average volume of STORYVILLE: LAST DAYS BAME viewers. On iPlayer, the film amassed 1.3 million OF SOLITARY Mongoose Pictures and Frontline PBS requests in seven days, making it one of the biggest for BBC Four factual programmes on the service last year. Bafta and Emmy Award-winning film-maker The judges said the film, which gripped 6.5 million Dan Edge and co-director Lauren Mucciolo viewers in March, was “beautifully directed” and noted were given unprecedented access to the the doc’s ability to take “what could have been an anodyne Maine State Prison as it launched a pioneering celeb format” and make it into something special. reform programme to scale back its use of solitary confinement. Filming over more “This film is creatingan impact rarely seen with such than three years, the team produced a deft a difficult subject matter. It has encouraged a cross- portrait of life in solitary, and the herculean platform conversation that is the sign of emotionally task of reforming a US prison. intelligent film-making,” they added. BROADCASTNOW.CO.UK Broadcast AWARDS 2018 | 5 13 FEBRUARY 2018 The innovative | The interactive | The creative broadcastdigitalawards.co.uk @BroadcastDigi #broadcastdigi FOR SPONSORSHIP ENQUIRIES CONTACT [email protected] | 0208 102 0851 BEST MULTICHANNEL PROGRAMME SHORTLISTED CHEWING GUM Retort for E4 Michaela Coel’s Bafta-winning semi- autobiographical comedy once again offered an original and upbeat take on working class life and culture rarely seen elsewhere, with lead character Tracey drawing viewers into her world through flashbacks, dream sequences and looks to camera. Coel not only wrote and produced the six episodes, she also composed and performed original music. HATE THY NEIGHBOUR Viceland for Viceland UK The hybrid doc-comedy format of this show was a challenge for the production team and stand-up comedian Jamali Maddix. As well as pinning down racist and extremist groups to interview, the team staged six live comedy shows in front of audiences. Jamali’s stand- up set, written in less than a week, provided a perfect counterweight to his low-key, inquisitive, documentary persona. MURDERED FOR BEING DIFFERENT BBC Studios for BBC Three Focusing on the tragic murder of Sophie LOVE ISLAND Lancaster in rural Lancashire, this single drama was the third film in BBC Three’s ITV Studios and Motion Content Group for ITV2 Bafta and RTS Award-winning Murdered By… strand. Told from multiple perspectives, the 60-minute drama explored themes of tribal- inners Kem and Amber (pictured) may have split ism, identity and not being afraid to be who after just five months, but the judges were unan- you are. Written by Lancashire-born Nick Leather and with a cast of non-professional imous in their praise for the third series of Love W local teens, this was an authentic portrait. Island. Describing it as the “TV zeitgeist moment of the The production year” and “channel-definingly brilliant”, the judges also team’s bold TASKMASTER noted the “perfect casting” and “brilliant storytelling”. Avalon for Dave With seven fast-turnaround shows per week on loca- willingness to Series four of the anti-panel show continued tion, the production team’s ability to react quickly to the tear up plans to give its comedians the space to be naturally funny, while allowing the chemistry fast-changing and unpredictable storylines was key to and react to between host Greg Davies and co-host (and its success. By dropping the safety net of a rigidly events in the show creator) Alex Horne to shine. The likes planned format, the team worked just a day or two in villa paid off of Noel Fielding and Mel Giedroyc helped this advance and, at times, just a few hours ahead. This bold series to maintain its strong performance, willingness to tear up plans and react to events in the in spades averaging 851,000. villa paid off in spades. THIS COUNTRY The series shook off the exploitative and nasty elements BBC Studios for BBC Three of reality TV to reveal a genuine warmth and joy. This Siblings Daisy May and Charlie Cooper’s idea was helped in no small part by Iain Stirling’s comic for this subtle mockumentary arose from voiceover. Free to point out absurdities and expose the feelings of alienation and, in their portrayal of cousins Kerry and Kurtan, the performers producers’ manipulations, he mocked vanity, pricked highlighted what happens to young people egos and poked fun without being mean. let down by social and education systems. The response exceeded all expectations, with a Shot fast and loose in natural light and with consolidated 2.5 million viewers and a 10.6% share, no rehearsal, this portrait of rural life rang up 1 million and 4.5 share points year on year.