RTS Centre Awards 2008/9 ROYAL TELEVISION SOCIETY Centres’ Awards 2008/9 Bristol (West of England) Craft Award for Editing January 2009 Nick Maddocks, Testimony Films For The Angels of Edgware Road Judges’ Award Testimony Films Regional Documentary Beeching’s Tracks with Simon Calder Grace Productions for BBC West Regional Current Affairs West Eye View: Home Truths Part 1 ITV West Network Award – Daytime/Factual Entertainment Living with the Wolfman: Programme 2 Tigress Productions for Animal Planet US Network Award - Specialist Factual/Natural History Live in Cold Blood – Armoured Giants BBC Natural History Unit for BBC One Network Award – Specialist Factual other than Natural History Thames Shipwrecks – A race against time Touch Productions for BBC Two Network Graphics/Title Sequence Building Wonders Available Light for ITV West/UKTV/Teachers’ TV Network Award – Documentary The Angels of Edgware Road Testimony Films for Channel 4 January 2009 Student Television Awards Factual: Waiting for the One University of Bristol Drama: Isabella University of the West of England Devon & Cornwall November 2008 Network Documentary Driviing Mum and Dad Mad Twofour Broadcast for BBC Three Page 1 of 11 RTS Centre Awards 2008/9 Non-Broadcast Production Beneath the Smith – Think, Listen, Learn Twofour Communications Network Leisure/Entertainment Programme Noel’s HQ Twofour Broadcast for Sky One Network Series The Estate We’re In Twofour Broadcast for BBC One Regional Reporter of the Year Jonathan Gibson ITV Westcountry Regional Current Affairs The Politics Show – Greenfields Investigation BBC South West Craft Camerawork Steve Briers Freelance/BBC South West Craft Editing Chris Dewar ITV Westcountry Single Item News Coverage Exeter Bomb – Westcountry Live ITV Westcountry Regional Documentary Made in England – Seth Lakeman Televisionary for BBC South West Regional Leisure/Entertainment Programme A Garden for Eden Seven Stones Media for ITV Westcountry Regional Feature Magazine Programme Inside Out – Series 13, Programme 1 BBC South West Television personality of the Year Jane Blanchard Special Award The Staff of Westcountry Television December 2008 Student Television Awards Animation: Carousel Rodeo University College, Falmouth Drama: The Sleeper Page 2 of 11 RTS Centre Awards 2008/9 Plymouth College of Art & Design London February 2009 Student Television Awards Animation: Cooped Up Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication Factual: Chequered Flags of Our Fathers Westminster Film School, University of Westminster Drama: Side Effect London College of Communication Midlands October 2008 Best Drama Doctors (Episode 13, Series 10) BBC Birmingham Best Actor Michael McKell Doctors (Episode 187, Series 9) BBC Birmingham Best Actress Diane Keen Doctors (Episode 206, Series 9) BBC Birmingham Best Independent Programmet The Goddess and the King Big Umbrella Media for BBC Two Best Male Television Personality John Craven BBC Vision Productions, Birmingham Best Female Television Personality Joanne Malin ITV Central Best Corporate/Non-Broadcast Programme Nano What? Totally Tin y Technology VPoint .TV for the University of Nottingham The Terry Lloyd Award for Best News Programme Midlands Today 23/7/07 BBC West Midlands Best Regional Programme Inside Out: tx 19/9/07 BBC East Midlands Page 3 of 11 RTS Centre Awards 2008/9 Best Documentary Family Wanted: Our Forever Family BBC Vision Productions, Birmingham Best Current Affairs Programme Inside Out – The Stirlands Murder, What Really Happened? BBC East Midlands Best Magazine Programme Countryfile: tx 3/2/08 BBC Vision Productions, Birmingham for BBC One Best Innovation and Multimedia Embarrassing Bodies Online www.chanel4.com/bodies Maverick TV for Channel 4 Best New Talent Luke David BBC East Midlands Baird Medal Bob Warman Student Television Awards Animation: Troubled University of Wolverhampton Factual: On the Edge University of Lincoln Drama: My Two Best Friends University of Wolverhampton North East & the Border February 2009 Best Factual Programme (2 Awards) Best Single Programme One Man and his Canoe True North Productions for ITV1 Best Series Kings of the Road Brilliant Trees Media for ITV Border Best Drama/ Entertainment Production (2 Awards) High Budget Place of Execution Coastal Productions for ITV1 Low Budget The Bobby Thompson Story Planet North for ITV Tyne Tees Best Promotion or Commercial Page 4 of 11 RTS Centre Awards 2008/9 Foster a Future Mere Mortals for Newcastle City Council Best Production for a Niche or Target Audience (2 Awards) Drama Shank Superkruch Films for Sunderland Youth Offending Services Non-Fiction Meningitis Matters Dene Films for Newcastle University Best New Media Production TheBigPix SilverLining with Fusebox Professional Excellence - Craft (2 Awards) Vision James Cook Director, twenty first century media Sound Peter Groom Dene Films Professional Excellence – Best Moving Image Journalist Dan Farthing Producer, Inside Out BBC North East & Cumbria Professional Excellence – Best Presenter Ian Payne ITV Tyne Tees The Centre Award 2008 David Baillie Wildcat Films The RTS Company of the Year Dene Films Best News Coverage Darwin Trial ITV Tyne Tees Regional Student Award: Factual Production The Art of Aggression The University of Sunderland Regional Student Award: Drama This Old Dog University of Cumbria Regional Student Award: Animation The Haunted House University of Cumbria Page 5 of 11 RTS Centre Awards 2008/9 Tony Pilgrim Award Tony Edwards North West November 2008 Best Regional News Programme: North West Tonight – Fake Photo Exclusive BBC North West for BBC One Best Current Affairs Programme Panorama – Teenage Sex for Sale BBC North West for BBC One Best Reporter on a Regional Programme Stephen Douglas Granada Reports ITV Granada Best Regional Programme Made in England: Michael J Browne Centini for BBC One Best Presenter on a Regional Programme Mike Hall Granada Reports ITV Granada Best Sports Programme (Network or Regional) Rugby League Raw PDI Media for BBC English Regions Best Children’s Programme Grange Hill Lime Pictures for BBC One Best Newcomer Award – Off Screen Angela Byrne, Producer & Nigel Hoar, Director Hitting Home: Carefree Salford University for Channel M Award for Outstanding Achievement in Craft Red Vision Animation Headcases ITV Productions for ITV1 Award for Innovation in Multiplatform The Passion BBC Manchester Multiplatform Productions for bbc.co.uk Best Network Factual Series Extreme Pilgrim BBC Religion and Ethics for BBC Two Page 6 of 11 RTS Centre Awards 2008/9 Best Network Features Programme Dragons’ Den BBC Entertainment Productions, Manchester for BBC Two Best Network Entertainment Programme The Comedy Map of Britain BBC Entertainment Productions, Manchester for BBC Two Best Network Single Documentary 21UP South Africa: Mandela’s Children Granada Factual North for ITV1 Best Comedy Programme You’ve Been Framed: Series 20 Granada Productions for ITV1 Best Performance in a Drama or Drama Series Matthew Kelly Cold Blood – The Last Hurrah ITV Productions for ITV1 Best Performance in a Continuing Drama Sean Gilder Shameless: Series 5 Company Productions North for Channel 4 Best Performance in a Comedy Sinead Matthews Ideal BBC Comedy North/Baby Cow Productions for BBC Three Best Single Drama or Drama Series The Street ITV Productions for BBC One Best Continuing Drama Shameless Company Productions North for Channel 4 Judges’ Award John Stevenson November 2008 Student Television Awards Animation: Mission Im-puss-able University of Central Lancashire Factual: Auntie Niecey Manchester Metropolitan University Drama: Get a Life Winstanley College Entertainment: Zeitgeist University of Salford Page 7 of 11 RTS Centre Awards 2008/9 Judges’ Award: University of Salford Celebrating 10 years of student production for Channel M Republic of Ireland March 2009 Student Television Awards Animation: My Day Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology Factual: Monto Dublin Institute of Technology Drama: Time Passing Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology Scotland January 2009 Student Television Awards Animation: Khoda Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee Factual: The Luminous Deep Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee Drama: Uncle Fergus Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama Southern February 2009 Best Editing Dan Sanders BBC South FA Cup Special, Inside Out, South Today BBC South Best Camerawork Joe Cooper Inside Out BBC South Best Sound Simon Marks South Today, Nature’s Top 40 BBC South Best Graphics and Animation Amanda Hall Thames Valley Tonight ITV Thames Valley Page 8 of 11 RTS Centre Awards 2008/9 Best Multi Skiller Rachel Hepworth ITV Thames Valley Best News Magazine Programme Meridian Tonight Special – Justice for Hannah Producer: Jon Ferraro ITV South Best Feature/Strand Production Family Fortunes Reshma Rumsey, Features Correspondent ITV Thames Valley Best Current Affairs Programme or Series Inside Out: The Vicar and the Drug Addict BBC South Best ‘Light Factual’ Series Monkey Business- Jim’s Legacy Athena Films for ITV Meridian Best Regional TV Journalist Glenn Campbell BBC South East Regional TV Personality of the Year Sally Taylor MBE South Today BBC South Best Programme or Series about the Region Focus: In from the Cold ITV Meridian Special Achievement Award Fred Dinenage Student Television Awards Animation: Great Race The Arts Institute at Bournemouth Drama: Ed and Tina The Arts Institute at Bournemouth Factual: Mark University of Portsmouth Entertainment: Give