It’s going to be a virtual get together this year, as for the first time, winners of the 24th TV Choice Awards are announced in special online and radio shows.

While some much-loved favourites are taking home more gongs, there are plenty of new winners lifting their first TV Choice trophies.

Martin Clunes has been a big star since before our awards started in 1997, but tonight he celebrates his first win as Best Actor for Doc Martin.  Great news on the day ITV have announced the 10^th and final series of the hit drama.

There is also a first win for the Bake Off team, who’ve always faced stiff competition in the Best Talent Show category.  Bradley Walsh and son Barney are rewarded for their US travel series Breaking Dad, which viewers have taken to their hearts.  And the man who has helped the nation with their finances in the most challenging times, Martin Lewis, is a very worthy winner.

Last year’s Best Comedy winner Ricky Gervais’s outstanding After Life makes it two in a row, as does our Best Actress winner, Jodie Comer.

And while perennial champions like I’m A Celebrity…, Saturday Night Takeaway and This Morning add to their bulging trophy cabinets, the biggest winner of the night is Coronation Street.

In the year that the soap stalwart celebrates its 60^th anniversary, all three of our soap prizes are headed to Weatherfield, as Jack P Shepherd and Shelley King win the acting prizes and the show is named Best Soap.

A new style of presentation for this year, hosted by Greatest Hits Radio’s Simon Mayo, allows fans to join in the excitement of seeing the winners presented with their awards for the first time.

Cash for Kids is the official charity of the TV Choice Awards 2020.

For Awards enquiries please contact Linda Steventon on 020 8643 4479 linda@thetvawards.co.uk or Tricia Martin on 020 8398 0479 tricia@thetvawards.co.uk

For all other media enquiries please contact susie.asbury@bauermedia.co.uk on 07754 758322

WINNERS LIST

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About TV Choice

TV Choice is the No.1 magazine in the UK – selling over 1 million copies every week. It is packed with highlights from all the best programmes, a great movie guide and the latest on all of the soaps. It’s a great-value, trusted magazine for the whole family.  The annual TV Choice Awards, now in their 24^th year, celebrate the best of the year’s TV shows and acting talent voted for entirely by the magazine’s readers. 

About Greatest Hits Radio

At Greatest Hits Radio it’s all about the music and the unique feeling that hearing a great song gives you, with listeners able to discover an upbeat, authentic, fun and entertaining format where the ‘Good Times Sound Like This’. Targeting an audience of 40+, the station plays the biggest songs of the 70s, 80s and 90s including music from iconic artists such as Blondie, Queen, George Michael, Madonna, Fleetwood Mac, David Bowie, Elton John and Whitney Houston.

Featuring a presenter line-up of legendary broadcasters including; Mark Goodier, Simon Mayo, Pat Sharp, Paul Gambaccini, Janice Long and many more, Greatest Hits Radio is part of the Hits Radio Brand Network. Find the station on your radio, mobile or ask your smart speaker to play ‘Greatest Hits Radio.’

About Cash for Kids

Cash for Kids is the cause related marketing arm for the Bauer Media’s network of local radio stations. In 2019 Cash for Kids raised over £20.9 Million and supported more than 1 Million sick and underprivileged children in local communities across the UK. Every penny raised stays in the community within which it was raised.

Bauer Radio’s Cash for Kids Charity (England) 1122062 Registered Charity (Scotland): sco41421