BBC NEWSAmericasAfricaEuropeMiddle EastSouth AsiaAsia PacificArabicSpanishRussianChineseWelsh
BBCiCATEGORIES  TV  RADIO  COMMUNICATE  WHERE I LIVE  INDEX   SEARCH 

BBC NEWS
 You are in: Entertainment: TV and Radio
News image
Front Page 
World 
UK 
UK Politics 
Business 
Sci/Tech 
Health 
Education 
Entertainment 
Showbiz 
Music 
Film 
Arts 
TV and Radio 
New Media 
Reviews 
Talking Point 
In Depth 
AudioVideo 
News image


Commonwealth Games 2002

BBC Sport

BBC Weather

SERVICES 
Tuesday, 11 September, 2001, 07:54 GMT 08:54 UK
EastEnders triumph at TV awards
Natalie Cassidy
Best actress Natalie Cassidy stars in EastEnders
BBC soap EastEnders swept the board with five trophies at a top TV awards ceremony on Monday.

Comic Jack Dee presented the TV Quick awards ceremony, which saw EastEnders win best UK soap, best storyline, best actress, best actor and best newcomer.

Martin Kemp
Former Spandau Ballet guitarist and actor Martin Kemp
Rival soap ITV's Coronation Street took three titles in last year's awards, including best soap, but this year managed none.

EastEnders' Steve Owen, played by Martin Kemp, picked up the best soap actor award.

Kemp, who is to leave EastEnders next year for a new contract with ITV, played a key role in the Who Shot Phil Mitchell? storyline this year.

EastEnders fever gripped the nation earlier in the year as viewers were teased and tormented about the identity of Phil Mitchell's would-be assassin.

Craig Phillips
Big Brother winner Craig picked up the best reality show award
The plot won the best soap storyline award.

This is the first time Coronation Street has not won that award in the ceremony's five-year history.

Natalie Cassidy - aka Sonia Jackson - won the best soap actress prize after a year in which viewers saw her become a teenage mum and give up her baby for adoption.

Big Brother fought off competition from a burgeoning number of reality TV shows. The winner of the first season, Craig Phillips, was on hand to pick up the award.

Bafta-winning host Graham Norton won yet another award for his Channel 4 chat show.

Lucy Benjamin and Steve McFadden
Steve McFadden - Phil Mitchell - starred in the best storyline
David Jason was named best actor for the second year running for his role as grumpy police inspector in ITV's ever-popular A Touch Of Frost.

Other winners were The Royle Family, which won the best comedy show titled for the second year and Ant and Dec's ITV Saturday morning show SM:tv Live, which was named best children's show.

BBC One's Ground Force picked up a third consecutive award as best lifestyle show.

The winners were voted for by readers of TV Quick magazine and the celebrity ceremony was held in aid of the charity Breakthrough Breast Cancer.

See also:

11 Sep 01 | TV and Radio
In Pictures: TV Quick awards
26 May 01 | TV and Radio
Picture gallery: British Soap Awards
01 Mar 00 | Entertainment
Street drama wins praise
26 Sep 99 | Entertainment
Soaps criticised for divorce rates
16 Feb 00 | Entertainment
Happy Birthday EastEnders
28 May 00 | Entertainment
EastEnders cleans up soap awards
04 May 01 | TV and Radio
Richard and Judy quit ITV
26 May 01 | TV and Radio
Street stars face pay cut
22 May 01 | TV and Radio
Queen honours Street stalwart
04 Sep 00 | Entertainment
Ali G takes top TV award
06 Sep 99 | Entertainment
Square win for Eastenders
Internet links:


The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites

Links to more TV and Radio stories are at the foot of the page.


E-mail this story to a friend

Links to more TV and Radio stories



News imageNews image