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Dispatches (TV Programme)
''Dispatches'' is a British current affairs documentary programme on Channel 4, first broadcast on 30 October 1987. The programme covers British society, politics, health, religion, international current affairs and the environment, and often involves a spy who infiltrates organisations under journalistic investigation. Awards British Academy Television Awards The British Academy Television Awards are presented in an award show hosted by the BAFTA. They have been awarded annually since 1955. British Academy Television Craft Awards The British Academy Television Craft Awards are accolades presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, established in 2000 as a way to spotlight technical achievements. RTS Awards The Royal Television Society Awards are the gold standard of achievement in the television community. Each year six awards recognise excellence across the entire range of programme making and broadcasting skills. Notable episodes ''Young, Nazi and Pr ...
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Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network operated by the state-owned enterprise, state-owned Channel Four Television Corporation. It began its transmission on 2 November 1982 and was established to provide a fourth television service in the United Kingdom. At the time, the only other channels were the television licence, licence-funded BBC One and BBC Two, and a single commercial broadcasting network ITV (TV network), ITV. The network's headquarters are based in London and Leeds, with creative hubs in Glasgow and Bristol. It is publicly owned and advertising-funded; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA), the station is now owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation, a public corporation of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, which was established in 1990 and came into operation in 1993. Until 2010, Channel 4 did not broadcast in Wales, but many of its programmes were re-broadcast ...
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BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online news coverage. The service maintains 50 foreign news bureaus with more than 250 correspondents around the world. Deborah Turness has been the CEO of news and current affairs since September 2022. In 2019, it was reported in an Ofcom report that the BBC spent £136m on news during the period April 2018 to March 2019. BBC News' domestic, global and online news divisions are housed within the largest live newsroom in Europe, in Broadcasting House in central London. Parliamentary coverage is produced and broadcast from studios in London. Through BBC English Regions, the BBC also has regional centres across England and national new ...
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2020 British Academy Television Awards
The 2020 British Academy Television Awards were held on 31 July 2020, hosted by British director and comic actor Richard Ayoade. The nominations for the jury awards were announced on 4 June 2020, whilst the nominees for the audience award, "Virgin TV's Must-See Moments", were announced on 3 June 2020. '' The End of the F***ing World'', ''Stath Lets Flats'' and '' Chernobyl'' each won two awards, with ''The End of the F***ing World'' taking home the Best Drama mask and ''Stath Lets Flats'' winning Best Scripted Comedy. In the news coverage awards, ITV won two masks. The 2020 British Academy Television Craft Awards had been held on 17 July 2020. Both ceremonies were held during the COVID-19 pandemic with social distancing practices. The Craft Awards event was entirely virtual, while much of the Television Awards ceremony was connected by video call, though it was hosted and presented from an audience-less Television Centre in London. Combining wins from both events, ''Chernob ...
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2019 British Academy Television Awards
The 2019 British Academy Television Awards were held on 12 May 2019 at the Royal Festival Hall in London. The nominations were announced on 28 March 2019, whilst the nominees for the "Virgin TV’s Must-See Moments" were announced on 27 March 2019. The 2019 British Academy Television Craft Awards were held on 28 April 2019. Winners and nominees Programmes with multiple nominations The following is a list of programmes with multiple nominations at both the ''2019 British Academy Television Awards'' and the ''2019 British Academy Television Craft Awards''. Most major wins Ceremony Information On 2 April 2019, it was announced that following a 2 year break, Graham Norton would return to host the 2019 BAFTA Television Awards. Controversy The inclusion of ''Killing Eve'' attracted some controversy as BAFTA rules state that a programme must have its premiere in the UK before elsewhere in order to be eligible, and ''Killing Eve'' premiered on BBC America in the ...
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Callum Macrae
Callum Macrae is a Scottish filmmaker, writer and journalist currently with Outsider Television, which he had co-founded with Alex Sutherland in 1993. An Emmy, BAFTA and Grierson nominee, he has been making films for 20 years in the UK and around the world, including Iraq, Sri Lanka, Japan, Haiti and several in Africa, covering wars and conflicts in Côte d'Ivoire, Uganda, Mali, and Sudan. Biography Callum Macrae grew up in Nigeria and Scotland. He studied painting at Edinburgh College of Art for five years, was a dustman for two years, ran a pirate radio station for six months and was a teacher for seven years. He was a member of the Official Edinburgh Festival's governing Council and President of Edinburgh and District Trades Council. Writing For two years he produced a weekly satirical cartoon strip for the ''Times Educational Supplement''. He then became a full-time writer working initially for a variety of newspapers and magazines including ''The Scotsman'', '' The Heral ...
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2018 British Academy Television Awards
The 2018 British Academy Television Awards took place on 13 May 2018 at the Royal Festival Hall in London. The nominations were announced on 4 April, with ''Line of Duty'' leading with four awards. '' Black Mirror'', '' The Crown'' and '' Three Girls'' followed with three nominations. The 2018 British Academy Television Craft Awards were held on 22 April 2018. Winners and nominees Programmes with multiple nominations Most major wins In Memoriam * Ken Dodd * Rosemary Leach * Peter Hall * Elizabeth Dawn * Jim Bowen * Robert Hardy * Brian Cant * Liz MacKean * Barry Norman *Mark Milsome *Anthony Booth * Keith Chegwin *Rodney Bewes *William G. Stewart William Gladstone Stewart (15 July 1933 – 21 September 2017) was an English television producer, director, and television presenter, best known as the presenter and producer of the Channel 4 quiz show ''Fifteen to One'' from 1988 to 2003. Earl ... * Peter Sallis * Katie Boyle * Roy Barraclough * Sean Hu ...
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RadioTimes
''Radio Times'' (currently styled as ''RadioTimes'') is a British weekly listings magazine devoted to television and radio programme schedules, with other features such as interviews, film reviews and lifestyle items. Founded in May 1923 by John Reith, then general manager of the British Broadcasting Company (from 1 January 1927, the British Broadcasting Corporation), it was the world's first broadcast listings magazine. It was published entirely in-house by BBC Magazines from 8 January 1937 until 16 August 2011, when the division was merged into Immediate Media Company. On 12 January 2017, Immediate Media was bought by the German media group Hubert Burda. The magazine is published on Tuesdays and carries listings for the week from Saturday to Friday. Originally, listings ran from Sunday to Saturday: the changeover meant 8 October 1960 was listed twice, in successive issues. Since Christmas 1969, a 14-day double-sized issue has been published each December containing schedul ...
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2016 British Academy Television Awards
The 2016 British Academy Television Awards were held on 8 May 2016. The nominations were announced on 30 March, with '' Wolf Hall'' nominated for four awards. Winners and nominees Programmes with multiple nominations Most major wins In Memoriam * Victoria Wood * Terry Wogan * Val Doonican *Peter Dimmock * Tony Warren * Hugh Scully *Deborah Shipley *Stephen Lewis *Anthony Valentine * Warren Mitchell * Frank Kelly *Sue Lloyd-Roberts *Patrick Macnee *Jon Beazley * Hazel Adair * George Cole * Denise Robertson * Jimmy Hill *Garry Shandling * Paul Daniels * Jack Gold *Jim Pullin *Cilla Black * David Nobbs * Cliff Michelmore *Ray Fitzwalter * Ronnie Corbett ''Notes'' *''Strictly Come Dancing'' won its first BAFTA this year. References {{BAFTA Television Awards British Academy Television Awards The BAFTA TV Awards, or British Academy Television Awards are presented in an annual award show hosted by the BAFTA. They have been awarded annually since 1955. ...
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Marcel Mettelsiefen
Marcel Mettelsiefen (born 1978) is a documentary filmmaker, cinematographer, and producer. His documentaries have earned him critical appraisal and recognition. Among others, Mettelsiefen has won three BAFTA and three Emmy awards, and was nominated for an Oscar in 2017 for '' Watani: My Homeland'' in the category of Best Documentary Short. Mettelsiefen has a background in photojournalism and has reported from across the Middle East and Afghanistan. He is the co-founder of the magazine '' zenith'', one of the leading publications about the Middle East and the Arab world in Germany, and a founding member of the German non-for-profit organization '' Candid Foundation''. Mettelsiefen studied political science and medicine at the Humboldt University in Berlin and photographed within Syria more than twenty-five times. It was in Syria that he moved from photojournalism and then into documentary filmmaking. Professional career Marcel Mettelsiefen was born in Munich to a German fa ...
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2015 British Academy Television Awards
The 61st British Academy Television Awards nominations were announced on 8 April 2015. Winners and nominees Winners are listed first and emboldened. Programmes with multiple nominations Most major wins In Memoriam *Donald Sinden * Brian Clemens * Lance Percival *Geraldine McEwan * Francis Matthews * Joan Rivers *Zohra Sehgal * Julian Wilson * Lynda Bellingham * David Lomax * Keith Harris * Mike Smith * Jeremy Lloyd * Sam Kelly * Rebekah Gibbs *Terry Pratchett *Leonard Nimoy * John Bardon * Alan Howard *James Garner *Richie Benaud * Warren Clarke *Ross Burden * Anne Kirkbride * Shaw Taylor * Rik Mayall See also * British Academy Television Awards * BAFTA Scotland * BAFTA Cymru References External linksOfficial site at BAFTA.org {{BAFTA British Academy Television Awards British Academy Television Awards British Academy Television Awards, 2015 Annual television shows British Academy Television Awards British Academy Television Awards The BAFT ...
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2014 British Academy Television Awards
The 60th British Academy Television Awards nominations were announced on 7 April 2014. The awards ceremony sponsored by Arqiva was held on 18 May 2014 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London. Winners and nominations Winners are listed first and emboldened. Programmes with multiple nominations Channel 4 lead the most nominations for any network with 28, 9 ahead of BBC One who had 19. Channel 4's ''The IT Crowd'' and ''Southcliffe'' as well as ITV's ''Broadchurch'' lead the nominations for programming with four nods each. Most major wins In Memoriam * Bob Hoskins * Eddie Braben * John Fortune * David Frost * Felix Dexter * Edna Doré * Kate O'Mara * Mike Winters * Addison Cresswell * Roger Lloyd-Pack * Richard Thorp * James Ellis * Alan Whicker * Bill Pertwee * David Jacobs * Clarissa Dickson Wright * Paul Shane * David Coleman * Lewis Collins * Bernie Nolan * John Cole * Richard Broke * James Gandolfini * Jim Goddard * Cliff Morgan ...
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2011 British Academy Television Awards
The 2011 British Academy Television Awards were held on 22 May 2011. The nominations were announced on 26 April. Graham Norton hosted the ceremony. Nominations Winners are listed first and emboldened. Programmes with multiple nominations In Memoriam *TP McKenna *Mary Malcolm *Alan Plater *Margaret John *Edward Hardwicke *Trevor Bannister *Gilly Coman *Douglas Argent *Keith Fordyce *Claire Rayner *Alfred Burke *John Sullivan (writer), John Sullivan *Chris Sievey *Brian Hanrahan *Richard Holmes (military historian), Richard Holmes *Geoffrey Hutchings *Tom Bosley *Simon MacCorkindale *Anthony Howard (journalist), Anthony Howard *Graham Crowden *Gary Coleman *Henry Cooper *Louis Marks *Ken Taylor (scriptwriter), Ken Taylor *Tim Hetherington *Paul Marcus *Elisabeth Sladen References External linksBAFTA Television Awards
Official site {{BAFTA Television Awards 2011 awards in the United Kingdom British Academy Film Awards, Television 2011 2011 television aw ...
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