Skins wins ‘Best Continuing Series’ award from BANFF

Skins and Extras were among the British productions honoured at this year’s Banff World Television Awards on Monday.
The Channel 4 teen drama was named best continuing series.
Extras, specifically the episode featuring Daniel Radcliffe, was named best comedy. The show, from Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, also won the Special Jury prize for entertainment.
The Special Jury prize for best overall programme was shared between Top Gear and US-German collaboration 51st Birch St.
BBC production Cranford won best mini-series while Stuart, A Life Backwards took the honours in the made-for-TV movie and Special Jury drama categories.
This year’s Lifetime Achievement award went to BBC comedy producer Jon Plowman, whose credits include Absolutely Fabulous, The Ben Elton Show, The League of Gentlemen and Extras.
Sex And The City star Kim Cattrall attended to receive the NBC Universal Award of Distinction.
The coveted Grand Jury prize went to US-produced documentary White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

SOURCE: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/a98850/skins-extras-lead-uk-winners-at-banff.html

Skins Wins "Fancy" Award

Congratulations guys!

SOURCE: http://www.e4.com/blog/skins-news/post/09vdxubrmlynpefbjumggg/view.e4

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Skins has won yet another award. And this is one of the most prestigious so far! Skins won the Golden Rose d’Or in the Drama category which basically means we were awarded best Drama, in Rose d’Or terms.
The judges described Skins as "an offbeat comedy/drama series about a group of teenagers who push boundaries, both at home and abroad. The action is enhanced by an irreverent comedic approach, which in no way reduces its emotional impact".

Check out the Rose d’Or winners list here, or a more easy to read abbreviated version with a picture of April and Mike courtesy of MSN.

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Skins Cast at BAFTAs

I really like Tony’s shirt, very old school with the rounded collars.

Larissa looks stunning.

Mike really needs to get a haircut!

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Danny from Skinsonline took some pictures of Nich presenting an award:

Skins Up For FIVE Bafta Craft Awards

Well done all!

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BBC1 period drama Cranford has received seven nominations in this year’s Bafta craft awards, which reward the behind-the-scenes talent on Britain’s most popular TV shows.

Other shows in the running for Bafta craft awards include Channel 4 drama Boy A, E4’s teen hit Skins and BBC1’s Doctor Who, which each garnered five nominations.

Social networking site Bebo has received three nods in the new media categories, with online drama Kate Modern up for the interactive content gong, against Spooks Interactive, Emmerdale Online and Skins.

Kate Modern’s channel profile, which enables users to interact with the cast, and Bebo’s open media platform are both up for the interactive innovation award, along with the BBC iPlayer and Channel 4’s Big Art Mob.

Jimmy McGovern received his seventh nomination in the writer category for gritty BBC1 drama The Street. His competition includes five-time nominee Tony Marchant for Channel 4’s The Mark of Cain, Steven Moffat for Doctor Who and Heidi Thomas for Cranford.
Cranford’s other nominations came for costume design, editing, make-up, music, production design and sound.

In the breakthrough talent category, Skins’ group approach to writing is nominated, alongside Jezza Neumann, the maker of Channel 4’s undercover investigation China’s Stolen Children.

Also nominated in this category are Mark O’Rowe for Boy A and Patrick Reams for his drama documentary A Very British Sex Scandal.

BBC1 was the most nominated channel with 28 nods to Channel 4’s 19 and six each for BBC2 and ITV1.

This year’s special award has been given to veteran comedy scriptwriters David Croft and Jimmy Perry, the team behind Dad’s Army, It Ain’t Half Hot Mum and Hi-de-Hi!

The awards will be presented at a ceremony on May 11 at the Dorchester hotel in central London.

SOURCE: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/mar/26/television3

Skins Cast at RTSPA

Here’s Picture’s of some of the Skins Cast that were at The Royal Television Society Programme Awards.

Dev Petal, Hannah Murray & Joe Dempsie

Dev Petal, Hannah Murray & Joe Dempsie

Hannah Murray

Hannah Murray

Hannah Murray

Joe Dempsie

Peter Capaldi (Mark Jenkins/Sid’s Dad)

Peter Capaldi (Mark Jenkins/Sid’s Dad)

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Skins Up For Bafta TV Award

In the Drama Series catagory, Skins is up against:

•  Life on Mars
• The Street
• Rome

This year’s British Academy Television Awards take place at London’s Palladium on Sunday, April 20.

Source: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/a91782/bafta-tv-awards-2008-the-nominees.html

Skins Wins Advertising Innovation Award

I’ve blogged before about Skins advertising ventures. £1.2m was well spent and The Guardian have awarded them an award for it. Congratulations.

Skins won best advertising campaign for the way it used social networking sites alongside more traditional media to build its brand.

The judges said the campaign, by 4Creative, Holler and Naked Communications, was "the first TV series to truly harness the power of online engagement to provide passionate advocacy for a show before it had even had an airing on TV".

"This was an interesting new way of advertising and selling a TV programme," the judges said. "It was a very integrated approach and really seemed to break new ground."

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/mar/07/marketingandpr.advertising1

Nich and Larissa Present NME Award

I love Larissa’s dress.

Fuck me that was exciting..

Thanks to Owen at Skins Media for the video

Hannah Murray (Cassie) Nominated For Glamour Award

She faces competition from the likes of Ashley Jensen (Extras), Catherine Tate (Doctor Who), Billie Piper (Secret Diary of a Call Girl) and Emma Watson (Harry Potter).

SOURCE: http://www.snitchseeker.com/harry-potter-news/jk-rowling-emma-watson-jany-temime-nominated-glamour-awards-54119/

Nicholas Hoult (Tony) Wins Style Award

Nicholas Hoult won Best Male TV Star at the Elle Style Awards 2008 last night. Well done.

SOURCES: Sky and Getty Images

Thanks to Skinsonline for finding the images