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BAFTA Television Awards announced

It was a night of surprise awards, and not very subtle comments directed toward the great and good of the television world who were sat in the audience at the London Palladium.

Handing out the award for Single Documentary - to True Vision's Evicted - Janet Street Porter praised all four nominated films, and made an impassioned plea for more slots for single documentaries in TV schedules. Earlier that evening, as he collected the award for News Coverage, the producer of the Granada Reports piece Morecambe Bay noted that it was the first time that a regional news programme had won the BAFTA, and praised the quality of an often overlooked sector. He then went on to call for the re-instatement of the BAFTA award for Current Affairs, in recognition of the UK's journalists.

Evicted, directed by Brian Woods, reveals the plight of the UK's homeless families through the young people affected. It beat three other high-profile films, including Paul Watson's acclaimed documentary about alcoholism Rain in my Heart.

Elsewhere, Channel 4's Nuremberg: Goering's Last Stand beat the favourite, BBC's Planet Earth (which left the evening empty handed) to win the award for Specialist Factual, while Sky One got a nod for its series Ross Kemp on Gangs. The full list of factual winners and nominees is below:

Factual Series

Ross Kemp On Gangs - Clive Tulloh, Amelia Hann, Ross Kemp (Tiger Aspect Productions/Sky One)
Stephen Fry - The Secret Life Of The Manic Depressive - Production Team (IWC Media, part of the RDF Media Group/BBC Two)
Tribe - James Smith, Steve Robinson, Bruce Parry, Sam Organ (BBC/BBC Two)
Who Do You Think You Are? - Alex Graham, Lucy Carter (Wall To Wall/BBC Two)

Huw Wheldon Award for Specialist Factual

Nuremberg: Goering's Last Stand - Peter Nicholson, Simon Berthon, Dan Korn, Piers Vellacott (3BM Television/C4)
Munich: Mossad's Revenge - Anthony Geffen, Tom Whitter, Peter Miller, Calum Walker (Atlantic Productions Ltd/C4)
Planet Earth - Alistair Fothergill, Mark Linfield (BBC/BBC One)
Simon Schama's Power Of Art - Clare Beavan, Simon Schama, Basil Comely, Mark Harrison (BBC London Arts/BBC Two)

Robert Flaherty Award for Single Documentary

Evicted - Brian Woods, Deborah Shipley, Jeremy Wales, Katy Sheppard (True Vision/BBC One)
Breaking Up With The Joneses - Ursula Macfarlane, Saskia Wilson, Dave Nath, Gregor Lyon (betty/C4)
9/11: The Falling Man - Henry Singer, John Smithson, Sue Bourne, Julian Ware (Darlow Smithson Productions/C4)
Rain In My Heart - Paul Watson (BBC/BBC Two)

News Coverage

Granada Reports: Morecambe Bay - Production Team (Granada/ITV)
BBC Ten O'clock News - Terrorism Plot At Heathrow - BBC Ten O'Clock News Team (BBC News/BBC One)
Channel 4 News - News From Iran - Jon Snow, Deborah Rayner, Ben Monro-Davies, Martin Collett (ITN/C4)
ITV Evening News - The Israel/Lebanon Crisis - Julian Manyon, Mark Austin, Geoff Hill, Rob Bowles (ITN/ITV1)

Features

The Choir - Jamie Isaacs, Ludo Graham, Drew Hill, Sam Grace (Twenty Twenty/BBC Two)
The Apprentice - Dan Adamson, Sanjay Singhal, Martyn Smith, Sir Alan Sugar (TalkbackThames/Mark Burnett Productions/BBC Two)
Dragons' Den - Helen Bullough, Dominic Bird, Paul Mackay (BBC Entertainment/BBC Two)
The F Word - Production Team (Optomen Television/C4)

For a full list of winners, see the BAFTA website.

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