Billie Piper’s call girl leads British charge at Europe’s top TV awards
March 21st, 2008 admin Posted in News |
Billie Piper’s turn as a high-class hooker in the television series Secret Life of a Call Girl last year failed to impress the critics for both its dramatic content and rose-tinted look at prostitution. But the judges at this year’s Golden Rose television festival in Switzerland beg to differ. Both Piper and the series have been nominated for an award in the annual jamboree which is dominated by British programming.
UK productions account for almost half the nominations from around the world – 37 out of 83 – for awards that are widely considered to be as prestigious as an Oscar or Bafta in the world of television.
It is Britain’s public-sector broadcasters, the BBC and Channel 4, that do the best. The UK has six out of 11 nominations for arts documentary, including Channel 4’s A Boy Called Alex about a gifted young musician who battles cystic fibrosis. In the drama category, British titles take six out of 10 nominations. The BBC’s Jekyll starring James Nesbitt will battle it out with ITV’s Secret Life of a Call Girl and the BBC’s The Street, written by Jimmy McGovern and starring Timothy Spall. Both Nesbitt and Piper are also nominated in the best entertainer category, along with comedian Peter Serafinowicz.
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