After weeks of intensive viewing and a day of enthusiastic and lively debate the experienced industry judges have delivered their final verdict in the fields of on-screen talent, craft, digital media, drama, regional television news and across a range of factual programming.
You can download the full press release, list of nominations and judges below.
BT’s Antonia Barton promised that “the new BT TV app is much better all round – it is much easier to use and gives you great TV shows to enjoy when you are out and about. Plus there’s so much more content.”
All BT TV customers can download the BT TV app which includes a dedicated kids' section of streamed on demand and catch up shows including SpongeBob SquarePants on Nickelodeon and Doc McStuffins from Disney Junior.
Prior to his success with the invention of the television, John Logie Baird was unlucky and struggled with a series of unsuccessful projects.
He had tried and failed to create artificial diamonds and attempted to create a cure of haemorrhoids which left him in considerable pain.
Who benefits from TV’s glut of poverty programmes? Is it the TV companies or the films’ protagonists? And what of the charities that are frequently involved in the making of this television sub-genre, which has been dubbed “poverty porn”?
These were some of the questions discussed at a conference held at the end of November and organised by the RTS, BBC, Joseph Rowntree Foundation and National Council for Voluntary Organisations.
Crime drama Happy Valley will be returning to screens later this year after being commissioned for a second series.
The Yorkshire-based six-part drama starring Sarah Lancashire focuses on a police sergeant searching for a kidnapped girl.
Happy Valley attracted an average of 7.2 million viewers during its first season, with its final episode in series one attracting 7.8 million.
Lancashire won the Female Actor award at the RTS Programme Awards in March this year.
Filming is set to begin for new BBC modern thriller One Of Us.
The series is written by Harry and Jack Williams, the duo behind gripping drama The Missing.
Set between Edinburgh and The Highlands, the four-part series explores the fragile relationship between the once-close Elliot and Douglas families in the aftermath of two murders.
Keeley Hawes is set to lead new ITV drama The Durrells.
The actress, who previously appeared in Line of Duty and Ashes to Ashes, is set to play Louisa Durrell the upcoming six-part series.
Set in 1935, the series is based on Gerald Durrell’s classic trilogy of Corfu memoirs including much-loved My Family and Other Animals.
Broadcasters, companies and individuals based or working in Northern Ireland are invited to submit entries to the following categories:
If you’ve ever fantasised about throwing away your phone and disappearing without leaving a digital footprint, look away now.
Channel 4’s new series Hunted is set to explore what it’s like to stay concealed in a society where being monitored is a daily reality and questions whether we ever truly can run away from 24/7 surveillance.
Part-documentary and part-thriller, this brand new format sees 14 ordinary participants on the run to evade capture from expert Hunters. Can they escape detection, avoid CCTV and even social media?
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