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Getty ImagesLONDON – ITV drama Broadchurch, which aired on BBC America and is set for a U.S. reboot on Fox, picked up three awards at the 40th Broadcasting Press Guild Awards here on Friday.
The nods, voted for by U.K. journalists who write about TV and radio, included a best actress nod for Olivia Colman for her turn in the show and a BPG writer award for the drama’s creator, Chris Chibnall. Broadchurch was also named best drama.
The BPG awards lunchtime ceremony, sponsored by Discovery Channel, was held at the Theater Royal Drury Lane.
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Two actors now well-known for big-screen roles won BPG awards for TV roles on Friday.
Chiwetel Ejiofor, BAFTA winner and Oscar nominee for 12 Years A Slave, picked up the BPG’s best actor award for his role in BBC Two’s Dancing on the Edge, about a jazz band in 1930s London. Meanwhile, the BPG breakthrough award, “for someone who attained a new level of success in 2013,” went to Fifty Shades of Grey star Jamie Dornan for his performance in The Fall on BBC Two, a crime drama set in Northern Ireland.
Channel 4 won all three awards for factual television. Syria: Across the Lines was voted best single documentary; Educating Yorkshire won the award for best documentary series; and the BPG award for best factual entertainment went to Gogglebox.
The Wipers Times on BBC Two, written by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman and starring Julian Rhind-Tutt and Michael Palin, was voted best single drama, while BBC One’s Strictly Come Dancing was named best entertainment program.
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BSkyB’s Sky Television won two awards with drama series The Tunnel, based on the Scandinavian series The Bridge, which was voted best multi-channel program.
Sky also won the innovation award for 25 years of innovation that has changed the face of TV in Britain, including the first 24-hour news, sport and arts channels.
Here are the winners in full:
Best Single Drama
The Wipers Times (BBC Two)
A Trademark Films Production for the BBC & Northern Ireland Screen in association with Goldcrest
Best Drama Series
Broadchurch
A Kudos & Imaginary Friends production for ITV
Best Single Documentary
Syria: Across the Lines
A Quicksilver Media production for Channel 4 & WGBH’s Frontline
Best Documentary Series
Educating Yorkshire
A Twofour Broadcast Ltd. production for Channel 4
Best Entertainment/Comedy
Strictly Come Dancing
A BBC In-house Entertainment production for BBC One
Best Multichannel Program
The Tunnel
A co-production of Kudos & Shine France Films in association with Filmlance for Sky Atlantic HD and CANAL+
Best Factual Entertainment
Gogglebox
A Studio Lambert Production for Channel 4
Radio Broadcaster of the Year
The Nick Ferrari Breakfast Show on LBC
Radio Program of the Year
Tweet of the Day
A BBC Natural History Unit production for BBC Radio 4
Best Actor
Chiwetel Ejiofor — Dancing on the Edge
A Ruby Film and Television & ITV Studios Global Entertainment co-production, in association with Endgame Entertainment & Playground, Creative England & LipSync Productions for BBC Two
Best Actress
Olivia Colman — Broadchurch
A Kudos & Imaginary Friends production for ITV
Best Writer
Chris Chibnall — Broadchurch
A Kudos & Imaginary Friends production for ITV
Breakthrough Award
Jamie Dornan — The Fall
A Fables production in association with Artists Studio for BBC Two
Innovation Award
Sky Television — for 25 years of innovation
Harvey Lee Award
Andrew Davies
