Channel 4’s Ackley Bridge Takes Home 4 Awards as Royal Television Society Announces Winners Of RTS Yorkshire Programme Awards

• The RTS Yorkshire Centre Programme Awards took place on Friday 6 July at The Queen’s Hotel, Leeds. A full list of winners can be found here

• Channel 4’s popular drama series Ackley Bridge - produced by The Forge Entertainment - lead the way with four awards; Poppy Lee Friar scooped the award in the Actor category; Penny Woolcock took home the Director: Fiction prize; Tim Phillips triumphed in the Music: & Use of Music segment and the series won the Drama award (sponsored by York St John University).

• BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire’s Look North scooped two awards: with Phillip Norton winning best News Or Current Affairs Reporter and Peter Levy taking home the Presenter award; while BBC Yorkshire’s Look North won both best News Or Current Affairs Story for House Prices and best News Programme for Manchester Arena Bomb.

The Royal Television Society’s Yorkshire Centre – part of Britain’s leading forum for television and related media – has announced the winners of its annual RTS Yorkshire Centre Programme Awards at a ceremony held last night in Leeds. The ceremony was hosted by Googlebox stars Ellie and Izzi Warner.

Channel 4’s popular drama series Ackley Bridge - produced by The Forge Entertainment - lead the way with four awards; Poppy Lee Friar scooped the award in the Actor category; Penny Woolcock took home the Director: Fiction prize; Tim Phillips triumphed in the Music: & Use of Music segment and the series won the Drama award (sponsored by York St John University).

BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire’s Look North scooped two awards: with Phillip Norton winning best News Or Current Affairs Reporter and Peter Levy taking home the Presenter award; while BBC Yorkshire’s Look North won both best News Or Current Affairs Story for House Prices and best News Programme for Manchester Arena Bomb.

In the Documentary Series category, True Vision Yorkshire won with Catching a Killer (Channel 4); while the Single Documentary award went to Handmade in Hull (BBC Four). The Factual Entertainment & Features gong went to Shiver for Elton John: The Nation’s Favourite Song (for ITV) and in the Low Cost Factual category Air Television took home the gong for 999 Rescue Squad (for UKTV).

In the four Professional Excellence awards, Slung Low’s production team scooped the award for Flood: To the Sea in the Drama & Comedy Production segment; while Mammoth Screen’s Dubbing Mixers James Ridgway and Gareth Bull won the Drama & Comedy Post Production award for their work on Victoria 2 for ITV.

In the Professional Excellence: Factual Post Production category, The Yorkshire Vet Post Production Team (Daisybeck Studios for Channel 5) triumphed; while Catching a Killer: The Search for Natalie Hemming (True Vision Yorkshire for Channel 4) took home the Factual Production prize (sponsored by Individual Restaurants).

This year’s Animation award went to Troy Story (Fettle Animation for The Open University); while Charlie Swinbourne won the Writer award for Deaf Funny (Juggle / BSLBT, Community Channel / BSLBT); Larry and Paul: The Newsreader Nightmare (BBC and Online) received the Promotion or Commercial Production gong and My Glasto Lineup (Joi Polloi / BBC Creative for BBC) took home the Second Screen Award.

Air Television’s work was recognised with the Independent Spirit award (sponsored by Channel 4 Nations & Regions) and the One To Watch prize (sponsored by Daisybeck Studios) went to Kerry Maule of Made in Leeds.

The RTS Yorkshire 2018 Outstanding Achievement Award for contribution to television in Yorkshire was presented to Screen Yorkshire Chief Executive Sally Johnson.

The RTS Yorkshire Centre Programme Awards took place on Friday 6 July at The Queen’s Hotel, Leeds. A full list of winners can be found here.

WINNERS:

Actor

· Poppy Lee Friar - Ackley Bridge, The Forge Entertainment, Channel 4

Nominees:

· Jeff Hordley – Emmerdale, ITV Studios, ITV

· Jenna Coleman – Victoria 2, Mammoth Screen, ITV

Animation

· Troy Story, Fettle Animation, The Open University

Nominees:

· 1917: The Last Christmas, Fettle Animation, BBC Radio 5 Live

· My Life: My Dog Ears, Brass, CBBC

Director: Fiction

· Penny Woolcock - Ackley Bridge, The Forge Entertainment, Channel 4

Nominees:

· Tony Prescott – Emmerdale, ITV Studios, ITV

· Geoffrey Sax – Victoria 2: Warp and Weft, Mammoth Screen, ITV

Documentary Series

· Catching a Killer, True Vision Yorkshire, Channel 4

Nominees:

· The Yorkshire Vet, Daisybeck Studios / Motion Content Group, Channel 5

· The Yorkshire Dales & The Lakes, True North Productions, More 4

Drama

· Ackley Bridge, The Forge Entertainment, Channel 4

Nominees:

· Emmerdale, ITV Studios, ITV

· Victoria 2, Mammoth Screen, ITV

Factual Entertainment & Features

· Elton John: The Nation’s Favourite Song, Shiver, ITV

Nominees:

· The Pets Factor, True North Productions / Brass, CBBC

· Britain’s Abandoned Playgrounds, Salt Street Productions, Channel 4 / All4

Independent Spirit (Sponsored by Channel 4 Nations & Regions)

· Air Television

Nominees:

· True North Productions

· Salt Street Productions

· Daisybeck Studios

Low Cost Factual

· 999 Rescue Squad, Air Television, UKTV

Nominees:

· A New Life In The Sun, True North Productions, Channel 4

· The A1: Britain’s Longest Road, True North Productions, BBC One

Music & Use of Music

· Tim Phillips, Ackley Bridge, The Forge Entertainment, Channel 4

Nominees:

· Ruth Barrett, Victoria, Mammoth Screen, ITV

· Bob Bradley, The Mystery of the Man on the Moor, True North Productions, Channel 4

News or Current Affairs Reporter

· Phillip Norton, Look North, BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire

Nominees:

· Sam Casey, Calendar, ITV Yorkshire

· Jamie Coulson, Look North, BBC Yorkshire

News or Current Affairs Story

· House Prices, Look North, BBC Yorkshire

Nominees:

· Rooney Trial Investigation, Look North, BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire

· Manchester Arena Response, Inside Out, BBC Yorkshire

News Programme

· Manchester Arena Bomb, Look North, BBC Yorkshire

Nominees:

· Special Olympics Opening Ceremony, Calendar, ITV Yorkshire

· Rooney Trial Investigation, Look North, BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire

One To Watch

· Kerry Maule, Made in Leeds

Nominee:

· Holly Pywell, Air Television

Presenter

· Peter Levy, Look North, BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire

Nominees:

· Mark Kielesz-Levine, Decision Made – General Election 2017 Results Special, Made in Leeds TV

· Amy Garcia, Look North, BBC Yorkshire

Professional Excellence: Drama & Comedy Post Production

· James Ridgway and Gareth Bull – Dubbing Mixers, Victoria 2, Mammoth Screen, ITV

Nominee:

· Ben Drury – Editor, Victoria 2: Faith, Hope & Charity, Mammoth Screen, ITV

Professional Excellence: Drama & Comedy Production

· Slung Low Production Team - Flood: To the Sea, Slung Low, BBC

Nominee:

· Ackley Bridge Production Team, The Forge Entertainment, Channel 4

· Rosalind Ebbutt – Costume Design, Victoria 2, Mammoth Screen, ITV

Professional Excellence: Factual Post Production (2 nominations)

· The Yorkshire Vet – Post Production Team, Daisybeck Studios, Channel 5

Nominee:

· David Linford Smith - Picture Editor, Britain’s City of Culture, BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire

Professional Excellence: Factual Production

· Catching a Killer: The Search for Natalie Hemming, True Vision Yorkshire, Channel 4

Nominees:

· The Yorkshire Dales & The Lakes, True North Productions, More 4

· Smart China: Start-Up Revolution, Meridian Line Films, Discovery Asia

Promotion or Commercial Production

· Larry and Paul: The Newsreader Nightmare, BBC and online

Nominee:

· Ackley Bridge, The Forge Entertainment, Channel 4

Second Screen Award

· My Glasto Lineup, Joi Polloi / BBC Creative, BBC

Nominees:

· Animal Rescue Live: Supervet special, Joi Polloi / Blast Films, Channel 4

· The Pets Factor: Furry Friends, True North / Chunk, CBBC

Single Documentary

· Handmade in Hull, BBC Studios, BBC Four

Nominees:

· The Mystery of the Man on the Moor, True North Productions, Channel 4

· Bronx to Bradford: Friars on a Mission, BBC Religion & Ethics (BBC Studios), BBC One

Writer

· Charlie Swinbourne - Deaf Funny, Juggle / British Sign Language Broadcasting Trust, Community Channel / BSLBT

Nominees:

· Ayub Khan-Din - Ackley Bridge, The Forge Entertainment, Channel 4

· Daisy Goodwin – Victoria 2: Faith, Hope & Charity, Mammoth Screen, ITV

Outstanding Achievement Award

Sally Joynson, Screen Yorkshire

About The The RTS Yorkshire Centre Programme Awards
The RTS Yorkshire Centre Programme Awards celebrate excellence in content production across all platforms, formats and genres and reflect the exceptional quality, originality and skill in Yorkshire. To qualify for the awards, all programmes submitted for judging have been made by a company, broadcaster or individual based in the Yorkshire region, or the majority of the programme (at least 60%) was filmed in the region. 


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