RTS North West Award Winners Unveiled

The winners of this year's Royal Television Society (RTS) North West Centre have been announced. The event was hosted by actor Ted Robbins.

The full list is below:

Best Best Animation / Puppetry
Winner:
Twirlywoos: Underneath
Nominees:
The Wise Man And His Beard
Strange Hill High
The Clangers

Best Children's Programme (Pre-School)
Winner:
Stargazing
Nominees:
Furchester Hotel
Justin's House: Granny Justina
Twirlywoos: Underneath

Best Children's Programme (School Age)
Winner:
Being Me – A Newsround Special
Nominees:
4 O'Clock Club
My Life – Coming to Britain
My Life – I Am Leo

Best Current Affairs Programme
Winner:
How Safe Are My Drugs?
Nominees:
Benefits and Bypasses: The Billion Pound Patients
Inside Out Northwest: MH17 – The Search For The Truth
Tonight – Backdoor Britain

Best Production (Craft)
Winner:
Sleeping Lions
Nominees:
Cucumber
Newzoids
Peter Kay's Car Share

Best Post Production (Craft)
Winner:
Peter Kay's Car Share
Nominees:
Cilla
Coronation Street: Minibus Crash & Fire
Idris Elba: No Limits – Drag Racing

Best Use Of Multiplatform
Winner:
FA People's Cup with BBC Get Inspired
Nominees:
Being Me: Newsround Interactive
Hollyoaks – The Gloved Hand Campaign: An Interactive Treasure Hunt
The Let's Go Club

Best Regional News Journalist
Winner:
Elaine Willcox
Nominees:
Clare Fallon
Dave Guest
Matt O'Donoghue

Best Regional News Programme
Winner:
BBC North West Tonight – Compilation
Nominees:
BBC North West Tonight – Stepping Hill
ITV News Granada Reports – Anne Kirkbride
ITV News Granada Reports – General Election Compilation

Best Regional Story
Winner:
The Alan Morris Trial
Nominees:
Inside Out North West: Alan Henning BBC
Mental Health Strand
The Jordan Begley Case

Best Sports Programme
Winner:
Arthur Ashe: More Than A Champion
Nominees:
Inside Out North West – Sir Stanley Matthews: The Wizard of Wembley
Match of the Day @50
Sporting Reds: Million Dollar Dreams, The Story Continues

Best Low Budget Programme
Winner:
Sporting Reds: Million Dollar Dreams
Nominees:
Crimes That Shook Britain: Jimmy Savile
Kickabout+
Nightmare in Suburbia: The Babysitter & The Cyber Killer

Best Script Writer
Winner:
Peter Kay/Sian Gibson/Paul Coleman/Tim Reid – Peter Kay's Car Share
Nominees:
Danny Brocklehurst – Ordinary Lies
Debbie Oates – Coronation Street
Russell T Davies – Banana

Best Performance in a Comedy
Winner:
Peter Kay – Peter Kay's Car Share
Nominees:
Morgana Robinson – House Of Fools
Sian Gibson – Peter Kay's Car Share
Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer – House Of Fools

Best Performance in a Continuing Drama
Winner:
Simon Gregson – Coronation Street
Nominees:
Kieron Richardson – Hollyoaks
Nikki Sanderson – Hollyoaks
Sally Dynevor – Coronation Street

Best Single Documentary
Winner:
Executed
Nominees:
How Safe Are My Drugs?
Hot Tub Britain
My Big Fat Asian Wedding

Best Performance in a Single Drama or Drama Series (Male)
Winner:
Fisayo Akinade – Banana
Nominees:
David Morrissey – The Driver
Jason Manford – Ordinary Lies
Vincent Franklin – Cucumber

Best Performance in a Single Drama or Drama Series (Female)
Winner:
Julie Hesmondhalgh – Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster
Nominees:
Jo Joyner – Ordinary Lies
Michelle Keegan – Ordinary Lies
Sorcha Groundsell – Sleeping Lions

Best Factual Series
Winner:
Scrappers
Nominees:
Children's Hospital: The Chaplains
Sacred Rivers with Simon Reeve
The Kids Hospital at Christmas

Best Factual Entertainment Programme
Winner:
Perspectives: Michael Jackson's Thriller with Ashley Banjo
Nominees:
Dragons' Den
Idris Elba: No Limits – Rally Driving
Marrying Mum and Dad

Best Entertainment Programme
Winner:
Sam and Mark's Big Friday Wind-up
Nominees:
Hip Hop Mastermind
Swashbuckle
You've Been Framed

Best Comedy Programme
Winner:
Peter Kay's Car Share
Nominees:
Hacker Time
House Of Fools
Newzoids

Best Single Drama or Drama Series
Winner:
Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster
Nominees:
Banana
Moving On: The Signature
Ordinary Lies

Best Continuing Drama Storyline
Winner:
Coronation Street – Steve's Depression
Nominees:
Coronation Street – Faye's Pregnancy
Hollyoaks – Justice For John Paul McQueen
Hollyoaks – Ste Hay: Living With HIV

Best Learning or Education Programme In Memory of Katy Jones
Winner:
BBC Ten Pieces
Nominees:
Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster
My Life, My Religion – Islam
Sleeping Lions

Judges' Award
Peter Salmon

Image: Sian Gibson.

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