SpooksInteractive won the top iTV accolade at last week's Bafta Games and Interactive Awards.
SpooksInteractive won the top iTV accolade at last week's Bafta Games and Interactive Awards.

The red-button offering picked up Bafta's best interactive TV award and was among three trophies that the BBC won at the Café Royal, London.

The interactive game ran alongside the last series of Spooks ,allowing viewers to participate in counter-terrorism missions on BBCi. Spooks Interactivebeat Challenge TV's Playalong Casino Casinoand ITV's Great British Spelling Testto pick up the award.

The BBC scooped a further two awards for breaking technology with best news for its online coverage of England's exit from Euro 2004 and the online entertainment honour with Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Adventure Game ' 20th Anniversary Edition.

Grant Dean, chair of Bafta's interactive entertainment committee, said: "Many of the top awards have gone to companies we most commonly associate with traditional entertainment, showing how the gap between new media, film and television is closing."

Maverick TV's Dan Jones was presented with the interactive new talent award for his work with Channel 4's IdeasFactory. The online initiative aims to help 14 to 34-year-olds get involved in the creative industries. Through Jones' screenplay initiative, four aspiring screenwriters were commissioned to produce short dramas broadcast on primetime C4.