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Royal Television Society Awards - Winners Announced

The 2006 RTS Programme Awards were announced in a ceremony last night at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London. Hosted by Mark Austin, the evening was the latest chance for the industry to pat itself on the back.

Florence Ayisi and Kim Longinotto's multi-awardwinning film Sisters in Law came out on top once again, winning the award for Single Documentary and earning praise from the judges: "In a very strong field, ... this programme was one of the freshest and most genuinely revelatory the jury had seen for years. It was ground-breaking in every respect and offered a real and fascinating insight into a subject very rarely given airtime."

DFG Films' Holloway Hairdo lost out to the Inside Out film Iceman, but so did Charlie Brooker's Screen Wipe (in the Digital Channel Programme award), so the team were in good company.

Other winners included BBC's Planet Earth in the Science and Natural History category, and Wall to Wall's Who Do you Think You Are?, which was awarded the Best History programme.

The full list of factual winners is:

Arts

9/11: Out Of The Blue Silver River Productions for five

Nominees
Peter And The Wolf BreakThru Films for Channel 4
Simon Schama's Power Of Art: Bernini BBC London Arts for BBC Two

History
Who Do You Think You Are? Wall to Wall for BBC Two

Nominees
Nuremberg: Nazis On Trial BBC for BBC Two
The War Of The World Blakeway Productions for Channel 4

Single Documentary - General
True Stories: Sisters In Law A Vixen Film for More4

Nominees
The Falling Man A Darlow Smithson Production for Channel 4
Rain In My Heart BBC Documentaries for BBC Two

Documentary Series - General
Anatomy Of A Crime BBC Bristol Features and Documentaries for BBC Two

Nominees
Stephen Fry - The Secret Life Of The Manic Depressive IWC for BBC Two
Cult Of The Suicide Bomber II Many Rivers Films for Channel 4

Science & Natural History
Planet Earth: From Pole To Pole BBC, JVP, NHK & BBC Worldwide for BBC One

Nominees
Horizon: Bye Bye Planet Pluto BBC for BBC Two
How William Shatner Changed The World Handel Productions, Mentorn, Discovery Canada, History US & ARTE for five

Nations & Regions Programme
Iceman - Inside Out BBC Yorkshire

Nominees
Holloway Hairdo DFG Films for ITV London in association with Film London
Life's Too Short Tern Television for BBC One Scotland

Digital Channel Programme Award
Death Of A President Borough Films for More4

Nominees
Charlie Brooker's Screen Wipe Zeppotron for BBC Four
Manchester Passion BBC Classical Music TV for BBC Three

Features & Factual Entertainment
The Apprentice talkbackTHAMES/Mark Burnett Productions for BBC Two

Nominees
Dragons' Den BBC for BBC Two
The Real Hustle Objective Productions for BBC Three

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