RTS North West Awards 2019

Awards Ceremony

Saturday, 23 November, 2019

This RTS North West Awards 2019 celebrate the nominations for the North West region, featuring the best of animation, factual, comedy & entertainment, news, short feature and drama.

 

Come and help us celebrate the best of TV talent in the North West region at the RTS North West Awards 2019.

The categories include News, Factual, Comedy and Entertainment, Drama and Short Feature and News.

The nominees were announced at the RTS North West Awards 2019 launch party, sponsored by Audio Network.

To book tickets please contact Rachel Pinkney.

Click here to download the table reservation form required for the evening.

Winners

Best Animation/Puppetry: Clangers

Production Company: Factory Create/Coolabi
Broadcaster: CBeebies
Nominees:
Danger Mouse
Go Jetters
Moon and Me

Best Children's Programme (Pre-School): YolanDa's Band Jam

Production Company: BBC Children’s In House Productions
Broadcaster: CBeebies
Nominees:
CBeebies Stargazing: Mission Moon
Clangers
Daisy & Ollie Christmas Special; 'What's so Great About Christmas Anyway?’

Best Children's Programme (School Age): My Life: Blood Sugar Brothers

Production Company: Nine Lives Media
Broadcaster: CBBC
Nominees:
My Life: I Will Survive
The Worst Witch
Finding My Family: Holocaust – A Newsround Special

Best Current Affairs Programme: Life After My Brother's Murder

Production Company: Blakeway North
Broadcaster: BBC Three
Nominees:
Dispatches: Skipping School - Britain's Invisible Kids
Watchdog Live
Sex Map of Britain: Polyamory – Just the Three of Us

Best Production (Craft): Ambulance

Production Company: Dragonfly
Broadcaster: BBC One
Nominees:
Years and Years – Director
The Bay
The Voice Kids – Director

Best Post Production (Craft): Mark Briscoe

Title: The ABC Murders – Audio
Production Company: Farm Manchester
Broadcaster: BBC One
Nominees:
Mark Briscoe - Gentleman Jack – Audio
Max Goldini - Ambulance – Grade
Mark Ryder - Ambulance – Audio

Best Digital Content: Granada Reports

Title: ITV News Granada Reports
Broadcaster: ITV
Nominees:
Hollyoaks – Celebrate Difference
CBeebies Get Creative
Super Movers

Best Regional News Journalist: Chris Hall

Title: ITV News Granada Reports
Broadcaster: ITV
Nominees:
Nina Warhurst - BBC North West Tonight
Abbie Jones - BBC North West Tonight
Matt O’Donoghue - ITV News Granada Reports

Best Regional News Programme: Granada Reports – Suicide Investigation

Title: ITV News Granada Reports
Broadcaster: ITV
Nominees:
Granada Reports – Compilation - ITV News Granada Reports
BBC North West Tonight – Compilation - BBC North West Tonight
North West Tonight – Police Special - BBC North West Tonight

Best Regional Story: BBC North West Tonight – The Church that Changed: Lizzie’s Legacy

Title: BBC North West Tonight
Broadcaster: BBC One
Nominees:
BBC North West Tonight – Lancashire Care - BBC North West Tonight
Granada Reports – Homeless Across the North West - ITV News Granada Reports
Granada Reports – Peter O'Reilly - ITV News Granada Reports

Best Sports Programme: The Kennedy Who Changed the World

Title: BBC Sport
Broadcaster: BBC Two
Nominees:
John McEnroe: Still Rockin' at 60 - BBC Sport
England’s World Cup Lionesses - BBC Sport
The Making of Tommy Fleetwood - BBC North West Tonight - BBC North West Tonight

Best Daytime Series: Moving On

Production Company: LA Productions
Broadcaster: BBC One
Nominees:
Home Is Where the Art Is
Judge Rinder
Pitching In

Best Script Writer: Nick Leather

Title: Mother’s Day
Production Company: BBC Studios
Broadcaster: BBC One
Nominees:
Tony Marchant - Butterfly
Jimmy McGovern and Gillian Juckes - Care
Russell T Davies - Years and Years

Best Performance in a Comedy: Samson Kayo

Title: Timewasters
Production Company: Big Talk Productions
Broadcaster: ITV2
Nominees:
Richard David-Caine - Class Dismissed
Justin Fletcher - Gigglebiz
Daniel Lawrence Taylor - Timewasters

Best Performance in A Continuing Drama: Rob Mallard

Title: Coronation Street
Production Company: ITV Studios
Broadcaster: ITV
Nominees:
Kieron Richardson - Hollyoaks
Katie McGlynn - Coronation Street
Lauren McQueen - Hollyoaks

Best Single Documentary: Farther and Sun – a Dyslexic Road Trip

Production Company: Platform Productions
Broadcaster: BBC Four
Nominees:
The Foreign Doctors are Coming
The Kennedy who Changed the World – BBC North West Tonight - BBC North West Tonight
Life After My Brother's Murder

Best Performance in a Single Drama or Drama Series (Male): Rory Kinnear

Title: Years and Years
Production Company: Red Production Company
Broadcaster: BBC One
Nominees:
Callum Booth-Ford - Butterfly
Russell Tovey - Years and Years
Mark Stobbart - Moving On

Best Performance in a Single Drama or Drama Series (Female): Jessica Hynes

Title: Years and Years
Production Company: Red Production Company
Broadcaster: BBC One
Nominees:
Anna Friel - Butterfly
Anne Reid - Years and Years
Emma Thompson - Years and Years

Best Factual Series: Ambulance

Production Company: Dragonfly
Broadcaster: BBC One
Nominees:
Murdertown
Bargain Loving Brits in the Sun
The Yorkshire Ripper Files: A Very British Crime Story

Best Factual Entertainment Programme: Teen Mom UK

Production Company: True North Productions
Broadcaster: MTV
Nominees:
The Dengineers
New Gino's Italian Coastal Escape
Sex on the Couch

Best Entertainment Programme: Sam and Mark’s Big Friday Wind Up

Production Company: BBC Children’s In House Productions
Broadcaster: CBBC
Nominees:
The Big Soap Quiz: Coronation Street vs Emmerdale
University Challenge
The Voice Kids

Best Comedy Programme: Timewasters

Production Company: Big Talk Productions
Broadcaster: ITV2
Nominees:
Class Dismissed
Gigglebiz
Smile Love It Might Never Happen

Best Single Drama or Drama Series: Years and Years

Production Company: Red Production Company
Broadcaster: BBC One
Nominees:
The Worst Witch
Butterfly
Care

Best Breakthrough Talent: Callum Booth-Ford

Title: Butterfly
Production Company: Red Production Company/Aenon
Broadcaster: ITV
Nominees:
Ella Marshall-Pinder - 4 O’Clock Club
Sadie Simm - Free Rein
Louisa Hollway - Clink

Best Continuing Drama Storyline: Coronation Street: Sinead's Cancer

Production Company: ITV Studios
Broadcaster: ITV
Nominees:
Coronation Street: Carla's Psychosis
Hollyoaks: Lily's Self-harm
Hollyoaks: Ste's Far-Right Radicalisation

Judges Award 2019: Russell T Davies

Nominees: