EE wins BAFTA

[sarah21]

Actor Shane Richie poses in the Awards Room with the award for Continuing Drama for Eastenders at the Pioneer British Academy Television Awards 2006 at the Grosvenor House Hotel on May 7, 2006 in London, England.

[Richie_lecturer]

Personally I didn't think they deserved to win it but I shall offer them my congratulations nonetheless. :)

[alan45]

They definatley didnt deserve to win. Emmerdale was by far the best soap last year

Bafta TV Awards 2006: The winners
Here is the list of winners and other nominees from the 2006 British Academy Television Awards ceremony:

Actor
Winner: Mark Rylance - The Government Inspector (Channel 4)
Bernard Hill - A Very Social Secretary (More4)
Denis Lawson - Bleak House (BBC One)
Rufus Sewell - The Taming Of The Shrew (BBC One)



Actress
Winner: Anna Maxwell Martin - Bleak House (BBC One)
Gillian Anderson - Bleak House (BBC One)
Lucy Cohu - The Queen's Sister (Channel 4)
Anne-Marie Duff - Shameless (Channel 4)



Entertainment performance
Winner: Jonathan Ross - Friday Night With Jonathan Ross (BBC One)
Jeremy Clarkson - Top Gear (BBC Two)
Jack Dee - Jack Dee Live At The Apollo (BBC One)
Noel Edmonds - Deal Or No Deal (Channel 4)



Comedy performance
Winner: Chris Langham - The Thick Of It (BBC Four)
Peter Capaldi - The Thick Of It (BBC Four)
Ashley Jensen - Extras (BBC Two)
Catherine Tate - The Catherine Tate Show (BBC Two)



Single drama
Winner: The Government Inspector (Channel 4)
Much Ado About Nothing (BBC One)
The Queen's Sister (Channel 4)
Red Dust (BBC Two)


Drama serial
Winner: Bleak House (BBC One)
Fingersmith (BBC One)
Funland (BBC Three)
To The Ends Of The Earth (BBC Two)

Drama series
Winner: Doctor Who (BBC One)
Bodies (BBC Three)
Shameless (Channel 4)
Spooks (BBC One)


Continuing drama
Winner: EastEnders (BBC One)
Casualty (BBC One)
Coronation Street (ITV1)
Holby City (BBC One)


Factual series
Winner: Jamie's School Dinners (Channel 4)
49 Up (ITV1)
Cocaine (Channel 4)
Coast (BBC Two)


Lew Grade Award for entertainment programme/series
Winner: The X Factor (ITV1)
Friday Night With Jonathan Ross (BBC One)
Have I Got News For You (BBC Two)
Strictly Come Dancing (BBC One)


Situation comedy
Winner: The Thick Of It (BBC Four)
Extras (BBC Two)
Peep Show (Channel 4)
The Worst Week Of My Life (BBC One)


Comedy programme or series
Winner: Help (BBC Two)
The Catherine Tate Show (BBC2)
Creature Comforts (ITV1)
Little Britain (BBC One & Three)


Huw Wheldon award for specialist factual
Winner: Holocaust, A Music Memorial Film From Auschwitz (BBC Two)
The Boy With The Incredible Brain (Five)
Life In The Undergrowth (BBC One)
No Direction Home - Bob Dylan (BBC Two)


Flaherty award for single documentary
Winner: Make Me Normal (Channel 4)
Children of Beslan (BBC Two)
The Real Sex Traffic (Channel 4)
Taxidermy: Stuff The World (BBC Two)


Features
Winner: The Apprentice (BBC Two)
Dragon's Den (BBC Two)
Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares (Channel 4)
Top Gear (BBC Two)


Sport
Winner: The Ashes: England v Australia (Channel 4)
Champions league final: AC Milan v Liverpool (ITV1)
Formula One - US Grand Prix (ITV1)
The Open golf championship - final round of Jack Nicklaus (BBC Two)


News coverage
Winner: BBC Ten O'Clock News - 7 July 2005, London bombs (BBC One)
Channel 4 News - the Attorney General story
ITV Evening News - the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes (ITV1)
Sky News - 7 July bombings


Current affairs
Winner: Dispatches: Beslan (Channel 4)
Panorama Special - Undercover Nurse (BBC One)
Dispatches: Iraq - The Reckoning (Channel 4)
Storyville: A Company of Soldiers (BBC Four)


Interactivity
Winner: Coast (BBC Two)
Channel 4 News/Breaking The News (Channel 4)
Not Forgotten/Lost Generation (Channel 4)
Shakespeare's Stories (BBC)

[Jojo]

I think i only agree with one or two of the winners there, but definitely not Eastenders

[JustJodi]

BAFTA is more focused on TV.. so It would be like America's EMMY awards :searchme:

[alan45]

I think i only agree with one or two of the winners there, but definitely not Eastenders

Perhaps they should be named DAFTas. After all who did tey have picking up the award Shane Richie (left show) and Nigel Woodman who plays the Late Dennis Wickman. Perhaps they didnt notice he was dead, after all his performances mad it difficult to distinguish. :lol:

[JustJodi]

Perhaps they should be named DAFTas. After all who did tey have picking up the award Shane Richie (left show) and Nigel Woodman who plays the Late Dennis Wickman. Perhaps they didnt notice he was dead, after all his performances mad it difficult to distinguish. :lol:

Good one Alan !!!:cheer: Wonder why Leita Dean was not there presenting?? Guess she was busy that day getting her hair extensions put in or getting a new layer of fake orange tan :rotfl:

[alan45]

Surely only the most rose tinted blinkered EE fanatic could honestly say that EE deserved to win the BAFTA this year. Corrie fanatic I may be but I dont think it deserved it either. IMO Emmerdale should have been nominated and should have won.

However c'est la vie

[Siobhan]

In Ireland we just had the SMART Telecom awards.. EE won nothing.. Corrie and Emmerdale came out tops in the soaps with Corrie winning best soap award

[Chloe O'brien]

I don't believe EE should not have won the award should have went to Casualty or Holby city instead

[JustJodi]

I don't believe EE should not have won the award should have went to Casualty or Holby city instead

I agree Chloe one of those two would have been a better choice , yup yup

[alan45]

In Ireland we just had the SMART Telecom awards.. EE won nothing.. Corrie and Emmerdale came out tops in the soaps with Corrie winning best soap award

Thats why they are called SMART awards then Siobhan :D

[no1abbafan]

Who decides the winners of this - is it the public?

[Florijo]

How the hell did EE win? EE has had a few good episodes but on the whole it is nowhere near high quality stuff.

[Siobhan]

Who decides the winners of this - is it the public?

No sure about the BAFTAS but the award we recently had in Ireland was all public choice

[Siobhan]

Here are some winners that you would know from the Smart awards:

Favourite Soap – Coronation Street
Favourite Female Soap Star – Patsy Kensit (we are not 100% SMART Alan)
Favourite Soap Couple – Bruce Jones & Wendi Peters (Coronation Street)
Lifetime Achievement Award – Louis Walsh

[xcutiekatiex]

well congratulations ee! i think they did well

[big bro fan]

Go eastenders best soap on the box in my opinion.

[x Amby x]

Yay! Im glad EastEnders beat Corrie! I thought that 2005 was a great year for them! Also im glad about X Factor winning too! lol I think Deal or No Deal should have won something, that show is quality!

[?????]

okay they didn't deserve it, but what the hell they won. as for Richie collecting the awards.... was just plain disgusting. Shane Richie should remember he left for 'hollywood roles'. Poor thing, he probably thinks its an oscar! and also someone should tell him he's left.

i didn't watch it but i'm guessing it went summin like this.

He probably rushed to the microphone.

'Thanks guys!'

Make some snidey remark to Coronation Street then walk off holding it in the air. As happy as I am that they won, I hate Shane Richie with a passion.
and look who's holding the award....someone should tell him he's left.

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[alan45]

Here are some winners that you would know from the Smart awards:

Favourite Soap – Coronation Street
Favourite Female Soap Star – Patsy Kensit (we are not 100% SMART Alan)
Favourite Soap Couple – Bruce Jones & Wendi Peters (Coronation Street)
Lifetime Achievement Award – Louis Walsh

I think these are a truer reflection than the DAFTA's (lol about Patsy Botox)

[Xx-Vicky-xX]

So glad Eastenders won it dont think any other soap deserved it more than them because they managed to come back from a complete low

[alan45]

Reading on this board and many others it now seems that EE is catering more for a younger audience than any of the other soap's. The storylines, characters and actors bear this out. In fact most of its core audience were not even around when EE was created. This policy has certainly gained EE more viewers from the 13 - 20 age group at the expense of alienating some of the older viewers. That explains why EE does so well in the tabloid soap magazine votes. EE IMO was NOT the best soap , sorry continiuing drama. It had some ridiculous storylines especially those featuring the return of a dead man, and two on the run criminals. Charcters who had an overnight personality change only to have it changed again a few weeks or even days later when someone new penned the latest story.

Sorry folks but EE was not a worthy winner.

[Siobhan]

Reading on this board and many others it now seems that EE is catering more for a younger audience than any of the other soap's. The storylines, characters and actors bear this out. In fact most of its core audience were not even around when EE was created. This policy has certainly gained EE more viewers from the 13 - 20 age group at the expense of alienating some of the older viewers. That explains why EE does so well in the tabloid soap magazine votes. EE IMO was NOT the best soap , sorry continiuing drama. It had some ridiculous storylines especially those featuring the return of a dead man, and two on the run criminals. Charcters who had an overnight personality change only to have it changed again a few weeks or even days later when someone new penned the latest story.

Sorry folks but EE was not a worthy winner. I am a huge EE fan, and I have been around since it start but I agree with Alan.. it didn't deserve to win the BAFTA, it needs alot more work to get even close to the standard it was back in its days.. I feel that EE, if it doesn't improve, will be axed like Brookside.. BBC are capable of much better work as is proven by the other Dramas they have..

[dddMac1]

Eastenders has been good lately but Emmerdale or corrie should of won it

[littlemo]

Eastenders has always been my favourite soap, so I'm glad they won! I'm loyal to it, it's difficult to be objective.

There weren't many of the EE cast at the awards, were there? I saw Nigel on the red carpet at the beginning, but I didn't actually see him inside. Maybe sitting at the back? All I saw inside was Shane Richie, Jessie Wallace, Kacey Ainsworth, James Alexandrou, and the guy who plays the doctor. But he was just there with Tamzin Outhwaite. He didn't go to pick up for EE with the rest of them.

It was strange to think that all the cast that went to pick up the award, had either left already or had announced they were quitting. You'd think there'd be a few of the newer members of the cast there. I thought they would have jumped at the chance to be there. It would have been the first award ceremony for a lot of them.

[Richie_lecturer]

Eastenders has been good lately but Emmerdale or corrie should of won it
Emmerdale definately deserved to win it as it was great last year, the highlight being the exit of Zoe Tate after 16 years in Emmerdale. How it didn't even get nominated is beyond me.

Corrie lost its way a bit at the start of last Spring after an outstanding couple of years, and was awful in Summer 2005 with panto OTT comedy etc. It did turn around towards the end of last year and has much improved into this year, and I hope this is recognised in next year's BAFTAs.

EE after picking up a bit last year, has failed to push on and has IMO got worse once more. I personally would have had no hesitation in nominating Emmerdale over EE for this year's awards.

[shannisrules]

were emeerdale even nominated? i watched them last night and 1 of the awards i saw eastenders won and the nominees were eastenders corrie holby and casulty

[DaVeyWaVey]

Congratulations EE! It was a good year for them in 2005 but i thought Casualty and Corrie should have won it:)

[Richie_lecturer]

were emeerdale even nominated?
Nope they weren't and I don't think think they were nominated last year either. :eek: Incredible considering 2004 and 2005 were very strong years for the show with the likes of Zoe and Charity Tate's great storylines and exits.

EE wasn't nominated last year either, which raised the most eyebrows - even though that snub was truly deserved IMO. Therefore Corrie was the only one of the 'big three' to be nominated last year!

[Layne]

Congratulations to EE and all that but i don't know whether the did deserve to win or not.

EDITING (because i have chnaged my mind :p ) I personally think Chrissie was fab last year along with a few other storylines, but apart from that EE wasn't that fab!

[DaVeyWaVey]

Congratulations to EE and all that but i don't know whether the did deserve to win or not. Actually no thinking about it they did deserve i thik 2005 was a fab year for EE (apart from all the alfir

Chrissie was the best thing in EE in 2005.

[Chris_2k11]

Chrissie was the best thing in EE in 2005.Totally agreed. :clap:

[alan45]

Congratulations to EE and all that but i don't know whether the did deserve to win or not. I think you have just summed up todays EE viewers

[Richie_lecturer]

Totally agreed. :clap:
Shows how bad the show was last year then. :rolleyes:

[Chris_2k11]

Richie, Chrissie was brilliant.

[Richie_lecturer]

She started out OK, but her character was wrecked by murdering webcam man. She totally bored me after that, her and Sam Mitchell and Zoe Slater - the plot just kept going round and round in circles, and one could've driven a tank through the plotholes in the storyline. :rolleyes:

[alan45]

She started out OK, but her character was wrecked by murdering webcam man. She totally bored me after that, her and Sam Mitchell and Zoe Slater - the plot just kept going round and round in circles, and one could've driven a tank through the plotholes in the storyline. :rolleyes:Tracey Ann Dobermans character was not only wrecked by Den 'two deaths' Watts but also by the ridiculous ramblings of the scriptwriters who changed her personality on a daily basis

[Richie_lecturer]

Indeed, totally ridiculous, but sadly a common event in EE these days, these numerous personality transplants. :rolleyes:

[Pixie]

I don't think EE deserved to win either.
Also think that Strictly Come Dancing should have won over Xfactor for best entertainmetn as i think its brilliant!

[littlemo]

I don't think EE deserved to win either.
Also think that Strictly Come Dancing should have won over Xfactor for best entertainmetn as i think its brilliant!

Really?! I can't stand it! X Factor's much better in my opinion.