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18/11/2016
Winners Announced For RTS NI Programme Awards 2016
The winners of this year's Royal Television Society (RTS) NI Programme Awards 2016 have been announced. The event was delivered in association with Performance Film and Media Insurance.
Those honoured on the night included Sports Personality Of The Year (BBC Sport), The Commute (Waddell Media), and Stephen Stewart from Green Inc Film and Television, who received an RTS NI Judges Award for his outstanding contribution to Northern Ireland's production sector.
Around 200 people attended the event, hosted by Adrian Chiles. Coleraine-born actress Bronagh Waugh was also on hand as guest presenter for the International Production award.
Steve Carson, RTS NI Chair, and Head of BBC Northern Ireland Productions, said: "This year's programme awards have been an outstanding success and we're extremely heartened to see the quality being produced in Northern Ireland. My thanks to the judging panel who had a tough job working through almost 70 entry submissions over the past 12 weeks. We're all looking forward now to a stronger, enhanced awards programme in 2017."
Gareth Graham, from headline sponsor Performance Film and Media Insurance, added: "I applaud everyone who entered these awards as they have demonstrated once again that Northern Ireland is capable of producing the very best televisual output."
The Royal Television Society Northern Ireland Programme Awards 2016 are delivered in partnership with BBC Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland Screen and Channel 4.
The full list of winners can be found below:
• Comedy and Entertainment – The Commute (Waddell Media)
• Factual Series – Find Me A Family (Erica Starling Productions)
• Factual Single – Patrick Kielty's Mulholland Drive (Green Inc Film & Television)
• Current Affairs – Dispatches, Channel 4, Kids in Crisis (Erica Starling Productions)
• News Coverage – EU Referendum Result (UTV: UTV Live at 6)
• Drama – The Secret (Hat Trick Productions)
• Children's and/or Animation – Lily's Driftwood Bay (Sixteen South)
• International Production – Sports Personality of the Year (BBC Sport)
In addition, Stephen Stewart, Managing Director of Green Inc, received the RTS NI Judges Award in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the production sector in Northern Ireland.
Image: (From left) – Adrian Chiles, RTS NI Chair Steve Carson, RTS NI Judges Award winner Stephen Stewart, and Gareth Graham from headline sponsor Performance Film and Media Insurance. Managing Director of Green Inc Stephen Stewart received the RTS NI Judges Award in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the production sector in Northern Ireland.
www.rts.org.uk/region/northern-ireland
(JP)
Those honoured on the night included Sports Personality Of The Year (BBC Sport), The Commute (Waddell Media), and Stephen Stewart from Green Inc Film and Television, who received an RTS NI Judges Award for his outstanding contribution to Northern Ireland's production sector.
Around 200 people attended the event, hosted by Adrian Chiles. Coleraine-born actress Bronagh Waugh was also on hand as guest presenter for the International Production award.
Steve Carson, RTS NI Chair, and Head of BBC Northern Ireland Productions, said: "This year's programme awards have been an outstanding success and we're extremely heartened to see the quality being produced in Northern Ireland. My thanks to the judging panel who had a tough job working through almost 70 entry submissions over the past 12 weeks. We're all looking forward now to a stronger, enhanced awards programme in 2017."
Gareth Graham, from headline sponsor Performance Film and Media Insurance, added: "I applaud everyone who entered these awards as they have demonstrated once again that Northern Ireland is capable of producing the very best televisual output."
The Royal Television Society Northern Ireland Programme Awards 2016 are delivered in partnership with BBC Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland Screen and Channel 4.
The full list of winners can be found below:
• Comedy and Entertainment – The Commute (Waddell Media)
• Factual Series – Find Me A Family (Erica Starling Productions)
• Factual Single – Patrick Kielty's Mulholland Drive (Green Inc Film & Television)
• Current Affairs – Dispatches, Channel 4, Kids in Crisis (Erica Starling Productions)
• News Coverage – EU Referendum Result (UTV: UTV Live at 6)
• Drama – The Secret (Hat Trick Productions)
• Children's and/or Animation – Lily's Driftwood Bay (Sixteen South)
• International Production – Sports Personality of the Year (BBC Sport)
In addition, Stephen Stewart, Managing Director of Green Inc, received the RTS NI Judges Award in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the production sector in Northern Ireland.
Image: (From left) – Adrian Chiles, RTS NI Chair Steve Carson, RTS NI Judges Award winner Stephen Stewart, and Gareth Graham from headline sponsor Performance Film and Media Insurance. Managing Director of Green Inc Stephen Stewart received the RTS NI Judges Award in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the production sector in Northern Ireland.
www.rts.org.uk/region/northern-ireland
(JP)
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