Disney+ Series ‘Rivals’ Scoops Royal Television Society Awards

Rivals, the Disney+ sequence about intercourse and scandal within the British tv trade within the Nineteen Eighties, was one of many huge winners on the Royal Television Society (RTS) Progamme Awards.

At a ceremony in London on Tuesday, Danny Dyer took house Supporting Actor – Male for his function as electronics businessman Freddie Jones within the Jilly Cooper adaptation. It is his second prize within the house of every week after he received Best Actor on the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards.

Rivals writers Dominic Treadwell-Collins and Laura Wade received finest Writer – Drama on the RTS awards, with judges praising the present’s “very distinctive tone and style.”

Elsewhere, HBO/BBC present Industry received finest Drama Series in its third season. “A series with feature film production values and brilliant performances in which every story detail had a purpose,” judges mentioned.

In different efficiency classes, Jessica Gunning continues her awards sizzling streak for Baby Reindeer, taking house Supporting Actor – Female. Anna Maxwell Martin received Leading Actor – Female for her function in ITV sequence Until I Kill You, whereas Lennie James was named finest Leading Actor – Male for BBC’s Mr Loverman.

The RTS opened the night by awarding a particular prize to journalists in Gaza after the award was controversially dropped from the Television Journalism Awards earlier this month. Other particular prizes included the Outstanding Achievement Award for The Traitors host Claudia Winkleman, whereas James Corden and Ruth Jones clinched the Judges’ Award after the success Gavin & Stacey: The Finale.

Full winners:

Arts

WINNER – My Sexual Abuse: The Sitcom (Swan Films for Channel 4)

“A profoundly compelling, challenging and genuinely innovative piece of work,” mentioned the judges.

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Breakthrough Award

WINNER – Josh Tedeku – Boarders (Studio Lambert for BBC)

The judges described the winner as “displaying all the characteristic hallmarks of a huge future star – a talent with a brilliant range that instantly draws the viewer in.”

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Children’s Programme

WINNER – Quentin Blake’s Box of Treasures (Eagle Eye Productions for BBC)

“A clever, engaging piece of children’s television produced to absolute perfection,” mentioned the judges.

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Comedy Drama

WINNER – Alma’s Not Normal (Expectation for BBC)

The profitable programme “navigates between the drama and comedy effortlessly, doing so with a refreshing and unique voice.”

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Comedy Entertainment

WINNER – Junior Taskmaster (Avalon UK for Channel 4)

The profitable present “is slick, fun and produced with great confidence and flair.”

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Comedy Performance – Female

WINNER – Sophie Willan – Alma’s Not Normal (Expectation for BBC)

“A triumphant performance that succeeds on so many levels…she has true star quality,” mentioned the judges.

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Comedy Performance – Male

WINNER – Oliver Savell – Changing Ends (Baby Cow Productions for ITV1)

“A perfect performance of real nuance…and he has really great timing!” mentioned the judges.

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Daytime Programme

WINNER – Loose Women (ITV Studios Daytime for ITV1)

The profitable programme “was highly informative, sensitively produced and showed a real respect for its audience.”

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Documentary Series

WINNER – The Push: Murder on the Cliff (Candour Productions for Channel 4)

The judges described the profitable sequence as “a deftly handled work which brought real emotional power to the story being told.”

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Drama Series

WINNER – Industry (Bad Wolf for BBC in affiliation with HBO)

“A series with feature film production values and brilliant performances in which every story detail had a purpose,” mentioned the judges.

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Entertainment

WINNER – The Traitors (Studio Lambert Scotland for BBC)

The profitable present was described by the judges as “a piece of genius executed absolutely flawlessly.”

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Entertainment Performance

WINNER – Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly – Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway (Lifted Entertainment (Part of ITV Studios) in co-production with Mitre Studios for ITV1)

“Polished, inclusive and with a complete commitment to the material and the audience,” mentioned the judges.

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Formatted Popular Factual

WINNER – Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams on Tour (South Shore Productions for BBC)

“This was audacious, ambitious and masterfully accomplished,” remarked the judges.

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History

WINNER – Atomic People (Minnow Films for BBC)

The judges described the profitable programme as “beautifully crafted…with interviews that were both intensely powerful and very moving.”

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Leading Actor – Female

WINNER – Anna Maxwell Martin – Until I Kill You (World Productions for ITV1)

“A compelling, perfectly pitched performance in a genuinely challenging role,” commented the judges.

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Leading Actor – Male

WINNER – Lennie James – Mr Loverman (Fable Pictures for BBC)

“An epic performance…what a masterclass in his craft he gave,” mentioned the judges.

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Limited Series and Single Drama

WINNER – This Town (Kudos, Nebulastar, co-produced with Mercury Studios, in affiliation with Stigma Films for BBC)

“Like nothing else on television,” mentioned the judges. “A multi-layered drama that was supremely well executed.”

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Live Event

WINNER – D Day 80: Tribute to the Fallen (BBC Studios Event Productions for BBC)

The profitable programme “got everything just right. A masterpiece of assured, high calibre television.”

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Presenter

WINNER – Liz Carr – Better Off Dead? (Burning Bright Productions co-produced with the OU for BBC)

The profitable presenter “showed tremendous honesty, candour and humour, genuinely immersing the viewer into their world.”

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Science & The Natural World

WINNER – Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story (Silverback Films for National Geographic and Disney+)

The judges known as the profitable programme “a piece of mesmerising television, which successfully combined epic scale with a sense of intimacy in telling the story of its subject.”

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Scripted Comedy

WINNER – Things You Should Have Done (Roughcut TV for BBC)

The judges have been drawn to what they known as “a piece which felt fresh, distinctive and very funny.”

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Single Documentary

WINNER – Hell Jumper (Expectation for BBC)

“Viewers were taken on an unforgettable journey through brilliant, immersive storytelling,” mentioned the judges.

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Soap and Continuing Drama

WINNER – Casualty (BBC Studios Drama Productions for BBC)

The profitable programme “has its own visual style and tells its stories with beautiful pace and emotional impact.”

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Sports Presenter, Commentator or Pundit

WINNER – Rose Ayling-Ellis and Clare Balding – Paris 2024 Paralympics (Whisper for Channel 4)

“An incredible level of consummate professionalism combined with utterly unique insight,” mentioned the judges. 

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Sports Programme

WINNER – Paris 2024 Paralympics (Whisper for Channel 4)

“The coverage had three standout qualities,” mentioned the judges. “It was innovative, inspirational and extraordinary.”

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Supporting Actor – Female

WINNER – Jessica Gunning – Baby Reindeer (Clerkenwell Films for Netflix)

“A spectacular tour-de-force,” mentioned the judges. “A performance that stays with the viewer for a long time.”

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Supporting Actor – Male

WINNER – Danny Dyer – Rivals (Happy Prince, a part of ITV Studios for Disney+)

The winner “gave a captivating performance of both real heart and vulnerability.”

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Writer – Comedy

WINNER – Sophie Willan – Alma’s Not Normal (Expectation for BBC)

The judges described this work as “laugh-out-loud funny and richly written, where comedy was found in the smallest details.”

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Writer – Drama

WINNER – Dominic Treadwell-Collins and Laura Wade – Rivals (Happy Prince, a part of ITV Studios for Disney+)

The writing was described by judges as “bold and totally assured in its very distinctive tone and style.”

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Judges’ Award

WINNER – James Corden and Ruth Jones

Presented by screenwriter, producer and director Richard Curtis

This is one of the best job on this planet. It is actual honour to current the Judges Award for “an outstanding contribution to British television with a particular focus on the impact made during the year”. And to current it – for his or her extraordinary work on Gavin & Stacey this yr – to Ruth Jones & James Corden.

“Gavin & Stacey” is likely one of the nice British sitcoms, and it reached its epic climax on Christmas Day final yr. The acquired knowledge is that when sitcoms stray from their regular, beautiful half hour size, they’ll get very woolly certainly – typically that includes a vacation to Ibiza – however this Christmas Special  stored & ratcheted up all the things that has been great in regards to the present that the general public have cherished since 2007 – ever funnier, deeper, extra intense

Ruth & James – what a factor you may have made. Always so many humorous strains – huge chunky comedy set-pieces – and such an epic vary of characters, all humorous & true and completely  memorable – and this Christmas you accomplished everybody’s lengthy, satisfying emotional story curve – even Chinese Alan bought his second. It’s  among the finest acted & forged reveals I’ve ever seen – and two of probably the most sensible performances have been yours. But you additionally wrote the entire rattling factor – and it feels just like the work of actually humorous associates. James from London, Ruth from Wales – you mixed these two cultures so completely, so adversarially, so comically. I feel you’re keen on one another –  and make one another chuckle – and what has been on display is an actual reflection of the right mixture of you.

I like comedies with romance at their hearts – and Gavin and Stacey isn’t solely an awesome British sitcom – it’s the biggest British romantic comedy of all time. And it’s an training in acceptance, kindness, loyalty, and the significance of Indian takeaways.

It’s additionally lasted 17 years – how did you do this, keep associates, keep humorous and find yourself with such a blissful bang?

The factor I most wish to say is that this – within the aggressive world we stay in, plenty of us generally neglect to have fun our primary job – which is to make individuals or exhilarated or simply plain blissful. TV is such a tremendous filler of our time. Even the least watched TV programmes in all probability entertain extra individuals than have ever watched the performs of Harold Pinter. We’re a mass media – and most of you all right here tonight do a massively good job. In obsessing about viewing figures and aggressive platforms and awards – though I like awards, clearly – we neglect there are not any actual winners or losers – there’s simply inventive individuals giving individuals issues to chuckle at, be moved by, be educated by, be comforted by – morning, afternoon and evening. So when the Gavin & Stacey finale went out – thousands and thousands of us seemed ahead to it, and watched it – and by quite simple maths – you and your group gave individuals within the UK 27 and three-quarter million blissful hours. That’s an enormous factor – that’s a lot happiness – so many merry Christmas days hyper-charged and so many ghastly Christmas Day fastened proper on the finish.

Outstanding Achievement Award

WINNER – Claudia Winkleman

The Outstanding Achievement Award is introduced to somebody who has captured our hearts and has accomplished so with a simple heat, wit, and, let’s be sincere, a stage of appeal that makes the remainder of us really feel like we’ve unintentionally proven as much as a black-tie occasion in our gardening pyjamas. I’m speaking about Claudia Winkleman.

We all know Claudia, or suppose we all know her. She’s the host of The Traitors – a present that mixes thriller, deception, and betrayal with the form of emotional depth that has you questioning your complete social circle. Then, after all, there’s Strictly Come Dancing, the place she’s been a stunning fixture for over 15 years, twice so long as Morecambe and Wise labored on the BBC, bringing pleasure to thousands and thousands on Saturday nights. If Strictly have been a film, she could be the heartwarming character that everybody roots for – not the one who journeys over the dance flooring, however the one who makes you imagine that, sure, even I may pull off an ideal foxtrot with simply the correct amount of willpower and perhaps a little bit of assist from the wardrobe division.

But Claudia’s journey didn’t begin there. If you hint again by the years, you’ll discover that Claudia has been part of British tv for many years. She didn’t simply land on our screens like some form of magical TV fairy. She labored her method up, quietly crafting a profession that’s as various as it’s spectacular. She’s appeared on all the things from This Morning to Talking Telephone Numbers to Liquid News and my favorite, God’s Gift. She’s hosted Sport Relief, Comic Relief, even The Great British Sewing Bee. She’s coated the Oscars, been the Nation’s movie critic when she slipped effortlessly into Barry Norman and Jonathan Ross’s sneakers. Over the final 30 years we’ve all come to depend on her distinctive voice and perspective. Which is extraordinary contemplating she remains to be solely 27 years outdated.

Through all of it, there’s been a consistency to Claudia’s presence. She doesn’t simply “do” tv. She brings one thing to it. It’s not solely her easy appeal, or her wit, or her enviable capacity to make each second appear to be it’s stuffed with risk – although, frankly, these are all arduous to disregard. It’s the way in which she connects with individuals, the way in which she appears to grasp that one of the best TV isn’t about being the loudest or the flashiest – it’s about being actual. She makes the viewers really feel like they’re a part of the dialog, like we’ve all simply been invited into her lounge, and we couldn’t be happier about it. And she makes the individuals in reveals like Strictly and Traitors really feel protected – her off digital camera care and a focus for forged and crew equally as vital as her work on display.

And then, after all, there’s that fringe. It’s probably the most well-known fringe on tv, a superb metaphor for the way in which Claudia herself exists on this planet: effortlessly trendy, undeniably iconic, however at all times with simply sufficient thriller to maintain you intrigued.

But greater than something, Claudia’s appeal lies in her capacity to take the work critically with out ever taking herself too critically. She’s keen to chuckle at herself, to make gentle of her personal errors, disguise her deep intelligence, however with out diminishing the standard of what she does. She has that uncommon capacity to make us chuckle and suppose, to entertain and transfer us, all on the identical time.

Television Journalism Awards – Special Award

WINNER – Journalists in Gaza

For information organisations, the Middle East disaster poses an extremely advanced and fast-moving problem.

With worldwide journalists unable to function in Gaza, masking this vital information story has fallen to the native media groups primarily based there. These people typically face extraordinary hazard reporting on occasions as they unfold.

This award isn’t devoted to 1 individual, one group or perhaps a single information organisation, however recognises the braveness and dedication of journalists risking their lives daily. Therefore, the Society want to make the RTS Special Award for News and Journalism to Journalists in Gaza.