12 September 2018
Drive to Digital final line up announced with Hits Radio presenter Gethin Jones hosting
Gethin Jones will oversee the day’s events discussing the future of digital radio.
The stars were out in force on the red carpet at The Dorchester on Park Lane last night, for the event that is one of the highlights of the showbiz calendar. The TV Choice Awards 2018 celebrated the best of the last twelve months in TV. And the glitzy ceremony saw some of Britain’s biggest celebrity names scoop the coveted trophies, as voted by the British viewing public.
As the Awards celebrated its 22nd year of honouring TV’s best stars and shows we welcomed back Pointless brainbox Richard Osman for a second stint as our host for the night.
For a number of TV favourites tonight meant another TVChoice award for the trophy cabinet – as Call The Midwife, Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway, Strictly Come Dancing and I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! added to their haul, along with This Morning, celebrating another victory as they prepare to celebrate the show’s 30th birthday next month. Meanwhile there was a second trip to the winner’s podium for DIY SOS: The Big Build and C4’s Sunday Brunch. And while Benidorm has also tasted victory before, this year’s prize was especially sweet, as it was for the hit comedy’s tenth and final series.
There’s always a tough battle in the drama categories, and this year the BBC’s stylish gangland drama Peaky Blinders finally triumphed with its fourth series, landing the Best Drama prize and Best Actor for Cillian Murphy. However this wasn’t a first win for our Best Actress. Michelle Keegan scooped the prize for her military drama Our Girl, having previously landed a TVChoice Award for Best Soap Newcomer.
Undoubtedly ITV’s Liar, starring Ioan Gruffudd and Joanne Froggatt was one of the year’s most talked-about shows and our readers gave it the stamp of approval in the form of our Best New Drama award.
Having swept the board in the soap categories last year, Emmerdale still has plenty to celebrate, as Emma Atkins and Ned Porteous were honoured. But their rivals didn’t go home empty-handed, as EastEnders’ Danny Dyer was again named Best Soap Actor while Coronation Street takes the Best Soap trophy back to Manchester.
Full list of winners and presenters are detailed below.
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Award |
Winner |
Presenter |
|
Best Soap |
Coronation Street
|
Nicholas Parsons |
|
Best New Drama
|
Liar |
Siobhan Finneran |
|
Best Drama Series
|
Peaky Blinders |
Charles Venn & Dr Ranj |
|
Best Actor |
Cillian Murphy, Peaky Blinders
|
Caroline Catz |
|
Best Actress
|
Michelle Keegan, Our Girl |
Stephen Tompkinson |
|
Best Family Drama
|
Call The Midwife |
Don Gilet & Julia Bradbury |
|
Best Reality Show
|
I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! |
Gethin Jones & Gemma Atkinson |
|
Best Talent Show
|
Strictly Come Dancing |
Hugh Dennis |
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Best Entertainment Show
|
Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway |
Andrea McLean & Linda Robson |
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Best Lifestyle Show
|
DIY SOS: The Big Build |
Rebecca Front |
|
Best Daytime Show
|
This Morning |
Keith Lemon & Paddy McGuinness |
|
Best Food Show
|
Sunday Brunch |
Kate Garraway and Charlotte Hawkins |
|
Best Factual Show
|
Blue Planet II |
Ryan Hawley & Fiona Wade |
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Best Comedy
|
Benidorm |
Anne Hegerty, The Chase |
|
Best Soap Actor
|
Danny Dyer, EastEnders |
Kelly Brook & Lisa Snowdon |
|
Best Soap Actress
|
Emma Atkins, Emmerdale |
Matthew Wright |
|
Best Soap Newcomer
|
Ned Porteous, Emmerdale |
Sunetra Sarker and Jo Joyner |
Photo credit: Nicky Johnson/TV Choice
10 September 2018
Bauer Media is to Publish TV Years: The Eighties, from the Makers of TV Choice Magazine
The team behind Bauer media’s best-selling weekly TV listing title TV Choice magazine are to launch a brand new magazine dedicated to the Eighties, containing a treasure trove of telly memories no TV fan will want to miss.
