BBC and Doctor Who Win Major Awards

Saturday, 25 August 2007 - Reported by R Alan Siler

BBC News Online reports that Doctor Who has been awarded the Programme of the Year title at the Edinburgh International Television Festival, with its broadcaster BBC One being acclaimed as Channel of the Year.

According to the report, "the winner of the best programme prize was chosen from the shortlist by almost 200 young people who were invited to attend the festival as a way of showcasing the next generation of TV talent." Producer Phil Collinson said that to receive the award "from young people coming into this industry is a particular honour". He also praised the BBC, saying that without it, "Doctor Who would never be made, would never be so good and would never be so well supported".

The other nominees in the terrestrial channel award were BBC Two, ITV1,Channel 4 and Five.

Doctor Who took its award over E4's programme Skins, plus fellow BBC One series Life on Mars and Planet Earth.

FILTER: - Series 3/29 - Awards/Nominations

SyFy Genre Awards

Tuesday, 10 July 2007 - Reported by Marcus

The Doctor Who genre has received several nominations for the SyFy Genre Awards, presented by the websiteSyFyPortal.com, an industry leader in science fiction and fantasy news. The SyFy Genre Awards honor the best in television and the silver screen that premiered to American audiences between June 1, 2006 and May 31, 2007. Among the nominations are Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant for Best Actor, Billie Piper for Best Actress,The Parting of the Ways for Best Episode, Doctor Who for best series, and Russell T Davies for their Gene Roddenberry Lifetime Achievement Award, named after the late creator of "Star Trek". Christopher Eccleston is also nominated for his guest appearances on Heroes.

And, incidentally, Outpost Gallifrey is one of the five nominees for Best Website.

Readers can visit SyFy Portal beginning July 25 to vote once per day per e-mail address on the complete ballot, with the poll closing Aug. 25. In the past seven years, more than 2 million ballots have been cast.

Click on the spoiler tag below for the complete list of nominees (no spoilers included, we've only tagged it to shorten this news story on the news page!)

BEST ACTOR/Television
Christopher Eccleston, "Doctor Who"
Joe Flanigan, "Stargate: Atlantis"
Matthew Fox, "Lost"
Edward James Olmos, "Battlestar Galactica"
David Tennant, "Doctor Who"

BEST ACTRESS/Television
Evangeline Lilly, "Lost"
Mary McDonnell, "Battlestar Galactica"
Jacqueline McKenzie, "The 4400"
Billie Piper, "Doctor Who"
Amanda Tapping, "Stargate SG-1"

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR/Television
James Callis, "Battlestar Galactica"
Michael Hogan, "Battlestar Galactica"
Lennie James, "Jericho"
Masi Oka, "Heroes"
Terry O'Quinn, "Lost"

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS/Television
Tricia Helfer, "Battlestar Galactica"
Ali Larter, "Heroes"
Lucy Lawless, "Battlestar Galactica"
Elizabeth Mitchell, "Lost"
Katee Sackhoff, "Battlestar Galactica"

BEST ACTOR/Movie
Gerard Butler, "300"
Johnny Depp, "Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At World's End"
Doug Jones, "Pan's Labyrinth"
Clive Owen, "Children of Men"
Brandon Routh, "Superman Begins"

BEST ACTRESS/Movie
Ivana Baquero, "Pan's Labyrinth"
Kate Bosworth, "Superman Returns"
Lena Headey, "300"
Keira Knightley, "Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At World's End"
Julianne Moore, "Children of Men"

BEST YOUNG ACTOR
Ivana Baquero, "Pan's Labyrinth"
Noah Gray-Cabey, "Heroes"
Conchita Campbell, "The 4400"
Thomas Dekker, "Heroes"
Hayden Panettiere, "Heroes"

BEST WEB PRODUCTION
Episode 1, "Sanctuary"
To Serve All My Days, "Star Trek: New Voyages"
Webisode 9, "Battlestar Galactica"
Webisode 10, "Battlestar Galactica"
World Enough and Time, "Star Trek: New Voyages"

BEST WEB SITE
Dark Horizons
GateWorld
Outpost Gallifrey
SciFi Wire
Whedonesque

BEST SPECIAL GUEST/Television
Richard Dean Anderson, "200," Stargate SG-1
Christopher Eccleston, "Distractions," Heroes
Christopher Eccleston, "The Fix," Heroes
Nathan Fillion, "I Do," Lost
George Takei, "Landslide," Heroes

BEST EPISODE/Television
"Company Man," Heroes
"Crossroads Part 2," Battlestar Galactica
"Exodus Part 2," Battlestar Galactica
"Maelstrom," Battlestar Galactica
"The Parting of the Ways," Doctor Who

BEST SERIES/Television
Battlestar Galactica
Doctor Who
Lost
Heroes
Jericho

BEST MOVIE
300
Children of Men
Pan's Labyrinth
Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At World's End
The Prestige

GENE RODDENBERRY
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Gene Coon
Russell T. Davies
James Doohan
Ronald D. Moore
Edward James Olmos

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National Television Awards Voting Begins

Tuesday, 10 July 2007 - Reported by Shaun Lyon

Early voting has been opened for the 2007 National Television Awards, sponsored by ITV. Both David Tennant and Freema Agyeman are among the long list of nominees for Most Popular Actor and Actress, respectively, while Doctor Who is once again up for Most Popular Drama.Torchwood also receives the Most Popular Drama nomination, while its star John Barrowman is nominated for Most Popular Actor. John Simm from the last three episodes of this past series is also nominated as Most Popular Actor for his work on "Life on Mars".

The NTA preliminary vote carries over to the final vote later in the year as the nominees' list is whittled down, with the presentation of the awards to take place in November. Doctor Who has been a big winner at the past two years' NTAs, the series taking both drama series awards and Tennant, Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper all winning in their categories.

Voting takes place at the National Television Awards website.

FILTER: - Series 3/29 - Billie Piper - Awards/Nominations

UKTV: Who Is the Greatest Doctor Who?

Sunday, 8 July 2007 - Reported by Marcus

The UKTV Drama channel asks Who is the Greatest Doctor Who? next weekend, when it shows stories featuring each of the ten Doctors.

The channel's website features clips, fact files and a voting form to register your choice.

Stories being shown are An Unearthly Child, The Chase (episodes 1 and 5),Inferno (episodes 1 and 7), The Three Doctors, The Deadly Assassin, The Caves of Androzani, Attack fo the Cybermen, The Two Doctors, The Curse of Fenric, the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie, Rose, The Empty Child, The Doctor Dances, The Parting of the Ways, New Earth, School Reunion, Army of Ghosts and Doomsday.

The Sunday Times, in reviewing the weekend, says William Hartnell's portrayal of the Doctor is a wonderfully cantankerous antidote to David Tennant's jovial space-prankster. It lists among the weekend's other treats, repeat outings for 1970's brilliantly sinister Inferno, Peter Davison's finest adventure (The Caves of Androzani) and the genuinely unnerving The Deadly Assassin, in which Tom Baker loses his marbles

(Thanks to 'Terry')

FILTER: - Awards/Nominations - Classic Series

TV Guide picks top cult series

Friday, 29 June 2007 - Reported by DWNP Archive

The American listings magazine TV GUIDE has named its top 30 Cult TV series of all time. Doctor Who comes in at number 22 after Freaks and Geeks and before the original Dark Shadows. For the full list go to
TV GUIDE.

FILTER: - Awards/Nominations - Press

Gongs For Classic Who Actors

Saturday, 16 June 2007 - Reported by DWNP Archive

A number of actors from the classic era of Doctor Who have received awards in the 2007 Queen's Birthday Honours List.

Peter Sallis, 87, who played Penley in The Ice Warriors, has been awarded an OBE for services to drama. Sallis is famous for voicing Wallace in the Wallace and Gromit films co-written by classic series writer Bob Baker.

Carmen Munroe, who was Fariah in The Enemy of the World, also receives an OBE for services to drama.

Sylvia Syms, 73, who portrayed Mrs Pritchard in Ghost Light, gets an OBE for services to drama and charity.

Glen Murphy, who was Dibber in The Trial of a Time Lord, is made an MBE for charitable services.

Footnote: Original series producer Verity Lambert was awarded an OBE for services to film and television production in the 2002 New Year Honours List. Also receiving an OBE in that list was Roy Clarke, creator of BBC comedy seriesLast of the Summer Wine, which stars . . . Peter Sallis!

Additional information from David Masters and Daniel Clements.

FILTER: - People - Awards/Nominations

Glamour Awards - Best Newcomer

Thursday, 7 June 2007 - Reported by Marcus

Freema Agyeman has won the Best Newcomer award at Glamour magazine's Women of the Year Awards, attended by the likes of Sienna Miller, Victoria Beckham, Katherine Jenkins and Girls Aloud.

Speaking at the awards, Agyeman denied rumours in the tabloid press that she had been sacked fromDoctor Who saying "I'm not axed, I haven't been sacked."

She spoke of how the reports had initially upset her "For about five minutes as you do think oh no, but then you know you're not going to have 100 per cent of people all the time. It’s just life. What is important is that the fans are enjoying it and I just decided to focus on that and it didn't bother me anymore."

FILTER: - People - Awards/Nominations

EW puts Who in top 25

Friday, 4 May 2007 - Reported by DWNP Archive

Entertainment Weekly has chosen Doctor Who as one of the top 25 moments in sci-fi over the past 25 years. It credits the show as "an ecstatically tangled, infinitely renewable story line" for its success and compliments it for being "unerringly progressive, but wary, dark, and full of doubts about human goodness." It's placed at number 23, but refers toChristopher Eccleston as the latest Doctor.

FILTER: - Awards/Nominations - Press

Doctor Who sweeps Welsh BAFTAs

Saturday, 28 April 2007 - Reported by Anthony Weight

Doctor Who has dominated the BAFTA Cymru Awards for the second year in succession, winning eight of the thirteen categories in which it was nominated. As reported earlier this month on Outpost Gallifrey, both Doctor Who and its spin-off series Torchwood were nominated for a slew of the awards, given by the Welsh branch of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, which celebrates achievements by Welsh productions for the big and small screens.

The winners were announced at a ceremony held in the Cardiff International Arena this evening. Doctor Who won the categories for Best Actor (David Tennant), Best Screenwriter (Russell T Davies), best lighting director - not camera (Mark Hutchings); best editor (Crispin Green); best original music soundtrack (Murray Gold); best make-up (Sheelagh Wells, Neill Gorton); best costume (Louise Page), and best director: drama (Graeme Harper).

However, the series lost out to Torchwood for Best Drama, with the spin-off also picking up the Best Actress award (Eve Myles), best director of photography: drama (Mark Waters), and best design (Edward Thomas).

In the BBC News report, Controller of BBC Wales Menna Richards is quoted as saying: "I'm very proud indeed of the success of all those who've made such wonderful programmes for BBC Wales. It's great to see BAFTA Cymru recognising the talents of all those who make programmes of the highest possible standards."

(Thanks to Graham Brown.)

FILTER: - Murray Gold - Awards/Nominations - Series 2/28

BAFTA Cymru nominations

Sunday, 8 April 2007 - Reported by Anthony Weight

icWales reports that Doctor Who and its BBC Three spin-off seriesTorchwood have between them earned 21 nominations at the BAFTA Cymru Awards. The awards, given by the Welsh branch of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, celebrate achievements by film and television productions produced in Wales. Doctor Who won the Best Drama Series category at the same ceremony last year, where the show also won several other categories including Best Director and an Oustanding Contribution to Network Television Award was given to Russell T Davies.

This year, both Doctor Who and Torchwood are nominated in the Drama Series category, with David Tennant andJohn Barrowman nominated for the Best Actor award and Billie Piper and Eve Myles both in the running in the Best Actress category.

The winners will be announced at a ceremony in Cardiff later this month.

FILTER: - Awards/Nominations - Series 2/28

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