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UK National Television Awards 2022: winners

A win for Britain's Phillip & Holly, just weeks after a controversy -and a message from King Charles to Emmerdale.

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Winners of the UK National Television Awards, Britain’s publicly-voted popularity awards, were announced yesterday.

Wins went to Trigger Point, Peaky Blinders, After Life and Beat the Chasers.

Ant and Dec won the TV presenter award for the 21st consecutive time but were unable to collect the prize in person as they had both recently tested positive for Covid.

ITV’s This Morning was announced as the winner for the Daytime category, just weeks after hosts Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby had endured a backlash around “queue-gate” in which they were accused of skipping the queue to view Queen Elizabeth II laying in state. ITV denied the claims, saying the duo were there in a ‘professional capacity as accredited journalists to cover the event.’

It was even reported that the crowd around them audibly booed, picked up by viewers watching the glitzy event live on ITV. Scott Bryan, a TV critic and broadcaster, tweeted: “A source at the ceremony says that there were some boos in the room when This Morning won an #NTAs, but boos stopped during the speech.”

Phillip, 60, said: “Don’t think we ever get complacent and please don’t think we ever take this for granted. This means so much to us every year, especially this year. We have the most amazing team. I have the best friend, we have the best boss.”

King Charles also sent a congratulatory video to Emmerdale for its 50th anniversary.

New Drama
Heartstopper
This Is Going To Hurt
Time
Trigger Point 

Talent Show
Britain’s Got Talent
RuPaul’s Drag Race
Strictly Come Dancing 
The Masked Singer

Authored Documentary
Julia Bradbury: Breast Cancer and Me
Kate Garraway: Caring For Derek 
Katie Price: What Harvey Did Next
Paddy and Christine McGuinness: Our Family and Autism

Returning Drama
Bridgerton
Call The Midwife
Peaky Blinders
The Split

TV Presenter
Alison Hammond
Ant and Dec 
Bradley Wash
Graham Norton

Factual Entertainment
Clarkson’s Farm
Gogglebox 
Paul O’Grady: For The Love Of Dogs
The Great British Bake Off

Drama Performance
Cillian Murphy – Peaky Blinders 
Jonathan Bailey – Bridgerton
Nicola Walker – The Split
Vicky McClure – Trigger Point

The Bruce Forsyth Entertainment Award
Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway
I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! 
Taskmaster
The Graham Norton Show

Serial Drama
Coronation Street
EastEnders
Emmerdale
Neighbours

Expert
Jay Blades
Kaleb Cooper
Martin Lewis 
Sir David Attenborough

Serial Drama Performance
Gillian Wright – Jean Slater, EastEnders
Mark Charnock – Marlon Dingle, Emmerdale
Paige Sandhu – Meena Jutla, Emmerdale
Rose Ayling-Ellis – Frankie Lewis, EastEnders

Quiz Game Show
Beat the Chasers 
In for a Penny
Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel
The 1% Club

Rising Star
Charithra Chandran – Edwina Sharma, Bridgerton
Joe Locke – Charlie Spring, Heartstopper
Kit Connor – Nick Nelson, Heartstopper
Paddy Bever – Max Turner, Coronation Street 

Daytime
Loose Women
The Chase
The Repair Shop
This Morning

Comedy
After Life
Derry Girls
Not Going Out
Sex Education

Talent Show Judge
Anton Du Beke 
David Walliams
Mo Gilligan
RuPaul

Source: Manchester Evening News

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  2. I live in constant hope that the trend and fad of constantly calling out people publicly on what they don’t agree, are not happy with or make a blooper gets shuffled of to be landfill, all humans have faults and foibles, it’s part of our fabric that makes us humans. What happened to forgive, move on and forget: Holly and Phil are great and sensitive with their guest., that’s England we’re Australian “no biggie” accept these things and move forward.

  3. Deserved wins for Strictly Come Dancing and Peaky Blinders.

    Strange that the BBC’s rival Morning Live show never even gets a nomination despite its superior ratings to This Morning.

    Beat The Chasers is an interesting new format for prime time but nowhere near as good as The Chase which oddly never wins despite being the highest-rated daytime programme,

    1. I’m thinking it’s quality and the high profile of Phil and Holly over quantity of BBC ratings. BBC gets a bit more in the ratings, but the popularity of Phil, Holly and friends is quite significant. Even with ‘queuegate’, they are popular enough to weather that storm.

      BBC are trying to take Holly due to popularity and she might be hosting the new UK Gladiators reboot.

    2. The Chase usually wins something but gets moved around categories as ITV see fit. Won the daytime award in 2016/17 and the Quiz Show award in 2019. Was put in the Entertainment category in 2020, then represented by Beat the Chasers in Quiz since 2021. Agree though it is odd the main show is not in the quiz category now – they seem to not allow shows to appear in more than one category.

  4. I think the issue with Phil and Holly is that they aren’t considered overly as news media, so it was odd for them to be in the news media section of Queen Elizabeth Lying-in-State and get priority access. It was a misreading of the situation. To put it into perspective, it’s like the equivalent of letting in Larry and Kylie from The Morning Show alongside the major news channels, programs and news journalists that are more earnest than light-hearted. Many thought that it looked like they were jumping the queue or getting undue VIP treatment.

    1. Exactly. You’ve got that spot on. The reason the issue lingers is that ITV have never really addressed that and stuck to the line they had a right to “queue jump” rather than acknowledge they perhaps shouldn’t have been in the queue jumping media queue in the first place, especially as they were off air from that point until after the unreal. An acknowledgement that their may have been an error of judgement would have gone a long way.

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