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Regional Television Society award winners
Several shows made in Bristol have been honoured at the Royal Television Society West of England Awards at a ceremony that took place at Bristol Old Vic.
Mini-series The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies filmed on location in Clifton and at the Bottle Yard Studios became the night’s biggest winner, taking home five awards out of seven possible categories including Best Drama and On Screen Performance.
Historical miniseries Wolf Hall – in which Bristol Cathedral doubled for Westminster Abbey – won the categories for Best Director (Peter Kosminsky) and Best Composer (Debbie Wiseman).
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BBC Features won awards for TV shows Fake or Fortune and DIY SOS: Homes for Veterans, and for Anita Rani’s work on Countryfile.
Drummer TV on Whiteladies Road collected two awards for CBBC shows Ice Stars and the searing documentary Where am I Sleeping Tonight?
Silverback Films, based in St Augustine’s Yard on Gaunts Lane behind the Hippodrome, won Best Natural History Programme for their BBC One series The Hunt voiced by David Attenborough; while Pets – Wild at Heart saw a win for the show’s editors and for Will Gregory of Goldfrapp, creator of its musical score.
See Hear, a BBC Features series for the deaf, won a special award from RTS Bristol. Reporter Fiona Lamdin of BBC Points West won two awards in the News category for her work on the Becky Watts case, and the team behind the Points West abuse scandal story also took home a prize.
Steve Humphries, managing director of Testimony Films on Great George Street off Park Street, won the Sir Ambrose Fleming Memorial Award for outstanding contribution to television.
Read more: Behind the scenes at the Bottle Yard Studios
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