You will have spotted the rise in Bristol voices entertaining us on TV – Stephen Merchant’s The Outlaws, Daisy May Cooper in Rain Dogs and, airing this month, Ruby Speaking, co-created by and starring Jayde Adams.
They share more than just the vernacular and location. All three series are warmly wrapped in empathy for their characters’ less-than-straightforward lifestyles and draw strongly on the colourful and complicated city itself.
The four-part BBC One series took home four prizes: Natural History, Cinematography, Editing and Sound.
Narrated by Sir David Attenborough, The Green Planet explores the fascinating and often bizarre world of plants. It was hailed by the judges as “ground-breaking, innovative and brilliant – an important story about our world in these times of great change”.
Two programmes notched awards two years’ running. The second series of Stephen Merchant’s BBC One comedy thriller The Outlaws won in the Scripted category, repeating its triumph last year.
Merchant created the series alongside Elgin James, and it has so far followed the seven strangers from different walks of life as they are forced together and struggle to reform. In series one, a bag full of money threw them into the dark and dangerous Bristol underbelly.
The eagerly awaited second series of Stephen Merchant’s comedy thriller The Outlaws received its premiere in Bristol in front of a sell-out, home-town audience, ahead of its return to BBC One on 5 June.
The first episode of a series that follows the lives of seven minor felons completing a Community Payback sentence marked a hugely confident return, delivering big laughs and jeopardy as the characters try to escape the clutches of a violent drug lord.
