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FeaturesBest multichannel programme: Love Island
“The production team’s bold willingness to tear up plan and react to events in the villa paid off in spades”
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FeaturesBest international programme sales: This Time Next Year
“The show has put the UK back on the front foot in the formats business”
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FeaturesBest comedy programme: Catastrophe
“Unlike anything else on TV right now. Fresh, funny and real”
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FeaturesBest children's programme: Horrible Histories
“It’s got its swagger back. They’ve taken the format and revitalised it with a real energy”
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FeaturesBest single drama: Black Mirror: San Junipero
“Science fiction with heart. Beautiful, original, funny and touching”
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FeaturesBest daytime programme: Extreme Cakemakers
“Never for a second does it look like anything less than a show four times the budget”
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FeaturesBest popular factual programme: Who Do You Think You Are?
“The Danny Dyer episode was surprising, funny and unmissable”
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FeaturesBest soap or continuing drama: Hollyoaks
“I don’t think any other show could have told this story as well as Hollyoaks did”
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FeaturesBest music programme: Four To The Floor
“A programme made with obvious love a passion for its subjects”
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FeaturesBest documentary series: Planet Earth II
“Visually beautiful, technically astounding and utterly life-affirming. It shos what television can do”
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FeaturesBest sports programme: Anthony Joshua V Wladimir Klitschko
“This huge event was matched every step, every punch and every minute of the bout by an outstanding production by Sky Sports”
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FeaturesBest pre-school programme: Apple Tree House
“These terrific performers were really exceptional and they never made any part of the show seem worthy”
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FeaturesBest entertainment programme: Taskmaster
“Highly original, innovative, fun and just plain silly. The best series yet”
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FeaturesBest news/current Affairs programme: Jo Cox: Death Of An MP
“The film succeeded in shining a light on extremism in the UK during a time of political upheaval”
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FeaturesBest original programme: Old People's Home For 4 Year Olds
“A smart and seductive way of tackling a sad and heavy subject”
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FeaturesBest drama series or serial: Three Girls
“The most powerful indictment of a system that failed these girls”
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FeaturesSpecial recognition: Sir David Attenborough
“Among the most influential producers in British TV”
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FeaturesWhy content rules the world
With the likes of Facebook and Apple joining the fray, the battle for the best sport, drama and entertainment is intensifying