BBC leads UK success at Banff
- Published: 11 June 2008 10:30
- Author: Chris Curtis
- More by this Author
- Last Updated: 11 June 2008 10:49
- Reader Responses
A bumper performance by the BBC led a strong night for British television at the 29th Banff World Television Festival Award.
BBC programmes won in 11 categories and former BBC head of comedy Jon Plowman picked up the lifetime achievement award.
In-house BBC winners included Cranford for best mini-series and Top Gear, which won a special jury prize; while Love Productions' BBC3 show The Baby Borrowers on Holiday was named best youth programme and Neal Street Productions's Stuart: A Life Backwards (BBC2) picked up two awards – best made for TV movie and the special jury award for best drama.
Channel 4 also put in a strong performance, winning four awards. The successful indies were Company Pictures (Skins), Touch Productions (Human Footprint), October Films (Dispatches: Meeting the Taliban) and Maverick (How to Look Good Naked).
Five picked up the popular science & technology award for My Brilliant Brain, its Windfall Films-made co-pro with Nat Geo Channels International.
