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THE BRITISH ACADEMY TELEVISION AWARDS 2000
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WINNERS AND NOMINEES Continued from previous page
Actress Thora Hird - Lost For Words Maggie Smith – David Copperfield Francesca Annis – Wives & Daughters
Lindsay Duncan – Shooting The Past
Actor Michael Gambon – Wives & Daughters Aiden Gillen – Queer As Folk Pete Postlethwaite – Lost For Words
Timothy Spall – Shooting The Past
Entertainment Performance Graham Norton – So Graham Norton John Bird, John Fortune – Bremner, Bird & Fortune Sacha Baron Cohen – The 11 O’Clock Show Michael Parkinson – Parkinson
Comedy Performance Caroline Aherne – The Royle Family Dawn French – The Vicar Of Dibley Sue Johnston – The Royle Family Ricky Tomlinson – The Royle Family
Richard Dimbleby Award For Best Presenter Jeremy Paxman – Newsnight David Attenborough – Wildlife Special: Tiger Johnny Vaughan – The Big Breakfast Kirsty Wark – Newsnight, Words On Wark
Single Drama
The Murder of Stephen Lawrence
Dockers Sex‘N’Death Lost For Words
Drama Series
The Cops
Psychos Cold Feet Playing The Field
Lew Grade Award
as voted by readers of Radio Times
A Touch Of Frost
Ground Force Dinnerladies The Vicar of Dibley Walking With Dinosaurs
Soap
EastEnders
Brookside Emmerdale Coronation Street
Drama Serial
Warriors
Wives & Daughters Kid In The Corner Births, Marriages And Death
Factual Series
The Mayfair Set
Manhunt: The Search for The Yorkshire Ripper The Second World War In Colour
Comedy Performance, for its co-star and co-writer, Caroline Aherne.
A different kind of double was achieved by producer-director Peter Kosminsky, whose Warriors was named Best Drama Serial while he picked up the Alan Clarke Award for Outstanding Contribution to TV. Commenting how he’d already been fired three times during his distin- guished career, he dubbed his hon- our “the awkward bastard award”.
Tony Marchant (Holding On, Kid In The Corner, Great Expectations, Take Me Home, Goodbye Cruel World) won the Dennis Potter Writing Award, while the equally prolific Peter Bazalgette (Food & Drink, Ground Force, Changing Rooms etc) became BAFTA’s 51st Fellow.
There was an ovation when, while accepting the News and Current Affairs Journalism Award for the BBC’s coverage of the Kosovo con- flict, John Simpson dedicated it to the “return of ITV’s News At Ten in its proper place.” An exciting new category, Innovation, was scooped by the astonishing, high-tech Walking With Dinosaurs.
Programme for programme, the BBC was the evening’s big network winner – by three to one over Channel 4 – but when it came to the sole public vote (by Radio Times readers for the Lew Grade Award), ITV got it – for A Touch Of Frost. The David Jason-starring series pipped Dinnerladies, with Ground Force in third place. n Quentin Falk
Photos this page from top: Caroline Aherne who won for Comedy Performance with Harry Hill; Peter Bazalgette, the recipient of the Fellowship; Joanna Lumley and Honor Blackman - two of the Avengers ladies; David Morrissey with Tony Marchant recipient of the Dennis Potter Award; Michelle Collins with the Production team from The Cops, winner for Drama Series Award; Leigh Jackson, Peter Kosminsky and Nigel Stafford-Clark, win- ners of the Drama Serial Award; Nick Brett, Sarah Ewing from Radio Times; Mark Nicholas, Gary Franses, Thierry Henry and Jeff Foulser, celebrating the Sport Category.
Television Awards 2000 photographs by Sylvaine Poitau
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