A drama about the serial killer Fred West and a social worker connected with his case has taken three top gongs at this year's BAFTA TV Awards.
Dominic West took the award for best lead performance by a male for his role of Fred West in the chilling mini-series Appropriate Adult. He beat a strong field including Sherlock actor Benedict Cumberbatch, a favourite with even those in West's camp, as it transpired.
"Even my sister was rooting for Benedict – she’s watching with eyes filling up with tears," West remarked as he received his statuette.
West's co-star Emily Watson took the award for best lead performance by a female, while Monica Dolan won the best supporting female gong for her role of Rose West in the same drama.
The YouTube Audience Award, the only one voted for by the public, went to Celebrity Juice - the quiz show hosted by Keith Lemon,...
Dominic West took the award for best lead performance by a male for his role of Fred West in the chilling mini-series Appropriate Adult. He beat a strong field including Sherlock actor Benedict Cumberbatch, a favourite with even those in West's camp, as it transpired.
"Even my sister was rooting for Benedict – she’s watching with eyes filling up with tears," West remarked as he received his statuette.
West's co-star Emily Watson took the award for best lead performance by a female, while Monica Dolan won the best supporting female gong for her role of Rose West in the same drama.
The YouTube Audience Award, the only one voted for by the public, went to Celebrity Juice - the quiz show hosted by Keith Lemon,...
- 5/28/2012
- by The Huffington Post UK/PA
- Huffington Post
A drama about the serial killer Fred West and a social worker connected with his case has taken three top gongs at this year's BAFTA TV Awards.
Dominic West took the award for best lead performance by a male for his role of Fred West in the chilling mini-series Appropriate Adult. He beat a strong field including Sherlock actor Benedict Cumberbatch, a favourite with even those in West's camp, as it transpired.
"Even my sister was rooting for Benedict – she's watching with eyes filling up with tears," West remarked as he received his statuette.
West's co-star Emily Watson took the award for best lead performance by a female, while Monica Dolan won the best supporting female gong for her role of Rose West in the same drama.
The YouTube Audience Award, the only one voted for by the public, went to Celebrity Juice - the quiz show hosted by Keith Lemon,...
Dominic West took the award for best lead performance by a male for his role of Fred West in the chilling mini-series Appropriate Adult. He beat a strong field including Sherlock actor Benedict Cumberbatch, a favourite with even those in West's camp, as it transpired.
"Even my sister was rooting for Benedict – she's watching with eyes filling up with tears," West remarked as he received his statuette.
West's co-star Emily Watson took the award for best lead performance by a female, while Monica Dolan won the best supporting female gong for her role of Rose West in the same drama.
The YouTube Audience Award, the only one voted for by the public, went to Celebrity Juice - the quiz show hosted by Keith Lemon,...
- 5/28/2012
- by The Huffington Post UK/PA
- Aol TV.
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts announced Tuesday (April 24) the nominations for its 2012 television awards. British miniseries "Appropriate Adult," which chronicles the real-life serial killer Fred West, leads the way with four nominations.
Other notable nominations include Dame Maggie Smith up for Supporting Actress for her work on "Downton Abbey" - it's the only nomination "Downton" received, after earning two nominations the previous year. "Modern Family" also earned a nomination in the International category.
The full list of nominations:
Leading Actor
Benedict Cumberbatch - Sherlock (BBC One)
Dominic West - Appropriate Adult (ITV)
John Simm - Exile (BBC One)
Joseph Gilgun - This is England '88 (Channel 4)
Leading Actress
Emily Watson - Appropriate Adult (ITV1)
Nadine Marshall - Random (Channel 4)
Romola Garai - The Crimson Petal and the White (BBC Two)
Vicky McClure - This is England '88 (Channel 4)
Supporting Actor
Andrew Scott - Sherlock...
Other notable nominations include Dame Maggie Smith up for Supporting Actress for her work on "Downton Abbey" - it's the only nomination "Downton" received, after earning two nominations the previous year. "Modern Family" also earned a nomination in the International category.
The full list of nominations:
Leading Actor
Benedict Cumberbatch - Sherlock (BBC One)
Dominic West - Appropriate Adult (ITV)
John Simm - Exile (BBC One)
Joseph Gilgun - This is England '88 (Channel 4)
Leading Actress
Emily Watson - Appropriate Adult (ITV1)
Nadine Marshall - Random (Channel 4)
Romola Garai - The Crimson Petal and the White (BBC Two)
Vicky McClure - This is England '88 (Channel 4)
Supporting Actor
Andrew Scott - Sherlock...
- 4/24/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
The full list of winners at the Broadcast Awards 2012, held last night at London's Grosvenor House Hotel, is as follows: Best Entertainment Programme
Celebrity Juice (ITV2)
Dynamo: Magician Impossible (Watch) - Winner!
Strictly Come Dancing (BBC One)
The Apprentice: You're Fired (BBC Two)
The Million Pound Drop Live (Channel 4)
The Only Way Is Essex (ITV2) Best Documentary Programme
My Brother The Islamist (BBC Three)
Panorama 2011 - Undercover Care: The Abuse Exposed (BBC One) - Winner!
Poor Kids (BBC One)
Sri Lanka's Killing Fields (Channel 4)
Terry Pratchett: Choosing To Die (BBC Two)
For Neda (More4) Best International Programme Sales
Jamie's 30 Minute Meals
Big Fat Gypsy Weddings - Winner!
Doctor Who series six
Merlin series three
The Week The Women Went
Torchwood: Miracle Day Best Popular (more)...
Celebrity Juice (ITV2)
Dynamo: Magician Impossible (Watch) - Winner!
Strictly Come Dancing (BBC One)
The Apprentice: You're Fired (BBC Two)
The Million Pound Drop Live (Channel 4)
The Only Way Is Essex (ITV2) Best Documentary Programme
My Brother The Islamist (BBC Three)
Panorama 2011 - Undercover Care: The Abuse Exposed (BBC One) - Winner!
Poor Kids (BBC One)
Sri Lanka's Killing Fields (Channel 4)
Terry Pratchett: Choosing To Die (BBC Two)
For Neda (More4) Best International Programme Sales
Jamie's 30 Minute Meals
Big Fat Gypsy Weddings - Winner!
Doctor Who series six
Merlin series three
The Week The Women Went
Torchwood: Miracle Day Best Popular (more)...
- 2/3/2012
- by By Catriona Wightman
- Digital Spy
Hello everyone! So, there's some pretty exciting stuff to talk about today. My oh my, what programmes we've been watching on TV lately!
Pajiba Readership: Tell us! Tell us, Caspar! What programme have you seen? Should we watch it too?
Caspar: Ssshhhh. Come a little closer, my dears. Let me tell you what I watched this week.
Various Pajiba readers (to each other): Oooh, this is going to be good. I can't wait to find out what Caspar's been watching. It's going to be the new "Misfits"! Rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb!
Caspar (huddling with the Pajiba readership; whispering): Ok. The programme I'll mostly be discussing this week...
Pajiba Readership: Yes?
Caspar: ...is.....
Pajiba Readership (breathlessly): Fucking tell us!
Caspar (whispering, excitedly): It's "Springwatch"!!!!!!!
Pajiba Readership (stepping back, rolling its eyes, and doing a 'black body language' hand-sign): Yo sister, say what now?
Caspar: I'm here to...
Pajiba Readership: Tell us! Tell us, Caspar! What programme have you seen? Should we watch it too?
Caspar: Ssshhhh. Come a little closer, my dears. Let me tell you what I watched this week.
Various Pajiba readers (to each other): Oooh, this is going to be good. I can't wait to find out what Caspar's been watching. It's going to be the new "Misfits"! Rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb!
Caspar (huddling with the Pajiba readership; whispering): Ok. The programme I'll mostly be discussing this week...
Pajiba Readership: Yes?
Caspar: ...is.....
Pajiba Readership (breathlessly): Fucking tell us!
Caspar (whispering, excitedly): It's "Springwatch"!!!!!!!
Pajiba Readership (stepping back, rolling its eyes, and doing a 'black body language' hand-sign): Yo sister, say what now?
Caspar: I'm here to...
- 6/17/2011
- by Dustin Rowles
Britain's BBC has been flooded with hundreds of complaints following the screening of Sir Terry Pratchett's controversial film about assisted suicide on Monday.
In TV documentary Terry Pratchett: Choosing To Die, the writer, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease and is known for his outspoken views on euthanasia, met a terminally ill man who arranged his own death.
The unnamed 71-year-old motor neurone disease sufferer is seen dying on camera after arranging the legally-assisted suicide and flying to Switzerland to carry it out.
The show caused an outcry before it aired this week (beg13Jun11), with campaigners and politicians criticising bosses at the British network for planning to broadcast the harrowing TV special.
But chiefs went ahead and aired the show - and 900 viewers have now complained to the network, with campaigners accusing Pratchett and the BBC of "cheerleading" a change in U.K. legislation over euthanasia.
Dr Peter Saunders, director of Care Not Killing, says, "This latest move by the BBC is a disgraceful use of licence-payers' money and further evidence of a blatant campaigning stance."
But Pratchett has defended the programme, saying, "I was appalled at the current situation. I know that assisted dying is practised in at least three places in Europe and also in the United States. The government here has always turned its back on it and I was ashamed that British people had to drag themselves to Switzerland, at considerable cost, in order to get the services that they were hoping for."...
In TV documentary Terry Pratchett: Choosing To Die, the writer, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease and is known for his outspoken views on euthanasia, met a terminally ill man who arranged his own death.
The unnamed 71-year-old motor neurone disease sufferer is seen dying on camera after arranging the legally-assisted suicide and flying to Switzerland to carry it out.
The show caused an outcry before it aired this week (beg13Jun11), with campaigners and politicians criticising bosses at the British network for planning to broadcast the harrowing TV special.
But chiefs went ahead and aired the show - and 900 viewers have now complained to the network, with campaigners accusing Pratchett and the BBC of "cheerleading" a change in U.K. legislation over euthanasia.
Dr Peter Saunders, director of Care Not Killing, says, "This latest move by the BBC is a disgraceful use of licence-payers' money and further evidence of a blatant campaigning stance."
But Pratchett has defended the programme, saying, "I was appalled at the current situation. I know that assisted dying is practised in at least three places in Europe and also in the United States. The government here has always turned its back on it and I was ashamed that British people had to drag themselves to Switzerland, at considerable cost, in order to get the services that they were hoping for."...
- 6/15/2011
- WENN
The season two climax of Glee entertained more than 1.2m on Monday night, while Sir Terry Pratchett's controversial assisted suicide film had 1.6m, according to the latest audience data. Glee, which was recently snapped up by Sky, concluded with 1.24m (5.1%) on E4 in the 9pm hour, down 300k on the finale of season one. A further 391k (2.2%) watched the episode on E4 +1. Terry Pratchett: Choosing To Die, featuring footage of the assisted death of a British motor neurone sufferer, was watched by 1.64m (6.7%) on BBC Two from 9pm. Afterwards, a special Newsnight debate on the issue of assisted suicide stimulated 1.11m (5.6%). Case Histories mustered 3.99m (16.3%) on BBC One in the 9pm hour, but was outperformed by The Waltons Sextuplets: Moving On, which took 5.52m (22.6%) on ITV1 and 244k (1.3%) on +1. Earlier, Saints and Scroungers (more)...
- 6/14/2011
- by By Andrew Laughlin
- Digital Spy
British author Sir Terry Pratchett broke down in tears watching a man take his own life as part of his controversial film about assisted suicide.
The writer, an outspoken campaigner for the legalisation of euthanasia in the U.K., met a terminally ill man who arranged his own death, as part of TV documentary Terry Pratchett: Choosing To Die, which aired in the U.K. on Monday.
Peter Smedley, who was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, can be seen drinking a cocktail of drugs to end his life at the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland, with doctors and his wife Christine at his side in the compelling TV special.
An emotional Pratchett appears wiping away tears as the 71 year old coughs and splutters, before falling into a deep sleep and passing away.
The novelist later tells the camera, "This has been a happy event. We've seen a man die peacefully, more or less, in the arms of his wife. Quite quietly, so that we never were actually certain exactly when he passed away. And when one thinks of all the other ways a person can die and in what circumstances, that would count, as they say, as a result."
Pratchett, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease and has been candid about his own assisted suicide plans, then reveals his fears for arranging his own death.
He adds, "I was in the presence of the bravest man I've ever met. I'm not certain that I could do that. I'm not certain that my hand wouldn't shake. But then I'm not certain what I would really do if I were really there.
"I want to stay around as long as I can to see assisted dying done properly in the U.K. When I die - and all men die - I would like to die out in the sunshine. I suppose sometimes the sun shines in Switzerland."...
The writer, an outspoken campaigner for the legalisation of euthanasia in the U.K., met a terminally ill man who arranged his own death, as part of TV documentary Terry Pratchett: Choosing To Die, which aired in the U.K. on Monday.
Peter Smedley, who was diagnosed with motor neurone disease, can be seen drinking a cocktail of drugs to end his life at the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland, with doctors and his wife Christine at his side in the compelling TV special.
An emotional Pratchett appears wiping away tears as the 71 year old coughs and splutters, before falling into a deep sleep and passing away.
The novelist later tells the camera, "This has been a happy event. We've seen a man die peacefully, more or less, in the arms of his wife. Quite quietly, so that we never were actually certain exactly when he passed away. And when one thinks of all the other ways a person can die and in what circumstances, that would count, as they say, as a result."
Pratchett, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease and has been candid about his own assisted suicide plans, then reveals his fears for arranging his own death.
He adds, "I was in the presence of the bravest man I've ever met. I'm not certain that I could do that. I'm not certain that my hand wouldn't shake. But then I'm not certain what I would really do if I were really there.
"I want to stay around as long as I can to see assisted dying done properly in the U.K. When I die - and all men die - I would like to die out in the sunshine. I suppose sometimes the sun shines in Switzerland."...
- 6/14/2011
- WENN
Beloved British author and health campaigner Sir Terry Pratchett has applied for paperwork which could lead to his own assisted suicide in Switzerland.
The Discworld novelist, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, is known for his outspoken views on euthanasia and has previously urged health officials in Britain to establish a system so people with incurable diseases can apply for assistance in ending their life.
Currently in the U.K., a person faces up to 14 years in jail if they are convicted of helping in a suicide.
Switzerland is one of the few countries in Europe where lawmakers have legalised assisted suicide along with Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands - and Pratchett has started the formal process which could lead to his own assisted suicide at the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland.
However, Pratchett is holding off from signing the papers to finish a book project and see his film, Terry Pratchett: Choosing To Die, which follows a 71-year-old sufferer of motor neurone disease as he travels to the Dignitas clinic.
Speaking at Britain's Doc/Fest event, which brings documentary-makers together, he said, "The only thing stopping me (signing them) is that I have made this film and I have a b**ody book to finish."
Terry Pratchett: Choosing To Die is set to air in the U.K. on Monday.
The Discworld novelist, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, is known for his outspoken views on euthanasia and has previously urged health officials in Britain to establish a system so people with incurable diseases can apply for assistance in ending their life.
Currently in the U.K., a person faces up to 14 years in jail if they are convicted of helping in a suicide.
Switzerland is one of the few countries in Europe where lawmakers have legalised assisted suicide along with Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands - and Pratchett has started the formal process which could lead to his own assisted suicide at the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland.
However, Pratchett is holding off from signing the papers to finish a book project and see his film, Terry Pratchett: Choosing To Die, which follows a 71-year-old sufferer of motor neurone disease as he travels to the Dignitas clinic.
Speaking at Britain's Doc/Fest event, which brings documentary-makers together, he said, "The only thing stopping me (signing them) is that I have made this film and I have a b**ody book to finish."
Terry Pratchett: Choosing To Die is set to air in the U.K. on Monday.
- 6/12/2011
- WENN
Commissioning editor Charlotte Moore favours quality and craft over feelgood and populist
Sheffield Doc/Fest supplement: full coverage of the festival
Charlotte Moore, the BBC commissioning editor for documentaries, is fresh from a hat trick of wins at last month's Bafta TV awards. But she has no time to rest on her laurels, with Terry Pratchett's controversial euthanasia documentary about to air.
Moore says it is not her job to get "massive viewing figures" and that she favours quality and craft over feelgood and populist. There is certainly not much feelgood about Terry Pratchett: Choosing to Die, which will be broadcast on BBC2 on 13 June and feature footage of the Discworld author witnessing the assisted death of a man with advanced motor neurone disease in Switzerland's Dignitas clinic. The BBC has faced negative press coverage over the documentary, accusing it of being "a cheerleader for assisted suicide". Moore suggests...
Sheffield Doc/Fest supplement: full coverage of the festival
Charlotte Moore, the BBC commissioning editor for documentaries, is fresh from a hat trick of wins at last month's Bafta TV awards. But she has no time to rest on her laurels, with Terry Pratchett's controversial euthanasia documentary about to air.
Moore says it is not her job to get "massive viewing figures" and that she favours quality and craft over feelgood and populist. There is certainly not much feelgood about Terry Pratchett: Choosing to Die, which will be broadcast on BBC2 on 13 June and feature footage of the Discworld author witnessing the assisted death of a man with advanced motor neurone disease in Switzerland's Dignitas clinic. The BBC has faced negative press coverage over the documentary, accusing it of being "a cheerleader for assisted suicide". Moore suggests...
- 6/6/2011
- by Ben Dowell
- The Guardian - Film News
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