British Academy Television Awards 1997

WINNERS

Best Actor

---Winner: Nigel Hawthorne — '' The Fragile Heart '' ( ITV )

---Other nominees: Christopher Eccleston — '' Our Friends In The North '' ( BBC2 ); Albert Finney — '' Karaoke '' / '' Cold Lazarus '' ( BBC1 / Channel 4 ); Peter Vaughan — ''Our Friends in the North'' (BBC2)

Best Actress

---Winner: Gina McKee — ''Our Friends in the North'' (BBC2)

---Other nominees: Alex Kingston — '' Moll Flanders '' (ITV); Helen Mirren — '' Prime Suspect 5 '' (ITV); Pauline Quirke — '' The Scupltress '' (BBC1)

Best Comedy (Programme or Series)

---Winner: '' Only Fools And Horses '' ( BBC / BBC1)

---Other nominees: '' Absolutely Fabulous '' (BBC / BBC1); '' Father Ted '' ( Hat Trick Productions / Channel 4 ); '' Game On '' (Hat Trick Productions / BBC2)

Best Comedy Performance

---Winner: David Jason — ''Only Fools and Horses'' (BBC1)

---Other nominees: Martin Clunes — '' Men Behaving Badly '' (BBC1); Joanna Lumley — ''Absolutely Fabulous'' (BBC1); Nicholas Lyndhurst — ''Only Fools and Horses'' (BBC1)

Best Drama Serial

---Winner: ''Our Friends in the North'' (BBC / BBC2)

---Other nominees: '' The Crow Road '' ( BBC Scotland / Union Pictures Productions / BBC2); ''The Fragile Heart'' ( Carnival Films / London Weekend Television / ITV); '' Gulliver's Travels '' ( Jim Henson Productions / RHI Entertainment Inc / Channel 4)

Best Drama Series

---Winner: '' EastEnders '' (BBC / BBC1)

---Other nominees: '' Ballykissangel '' ( Ballykea / BBC Northern Ireland / World Productions / BBC1); '' Hamish Macbeth '' ( BBC Scotland / Skyline Films / Zenith Entertainment Ltd ); '' This Life '' (World Productions / BBC2)

Best Single Drama

---Winner: '' Hillsborough '' ( Granada Television / ITV)

---Other nominees: '' Crossing The Floor '' (??? / BBC2); '' The Precious Blood '' (BBC Northern Ireland / BBC2); '' Some Kind Of Life '' (Granada Television / ITV)

Best News Coverage

---Winner: '' Newsnight — BSE Coverage '' (BBC / BBC2)

---Other nominees: ''Newsnight — Dunblane Massacre '' (BBC / BBC2); '' News At Ten — Dunblane Massacre'' ( ITN / ITV); '' Channel 4 News — Refugee Crisis in Zaire and Rwanda '' (ITN / Channel 4)

Best Light Entertainment Performance

---Winner: John Bird & John Fortune — '' Rory Bremner - Who Else? '' / '' The Long Johns '' (Channel 4)

---Other nominees: Caroline Aherne — '' The Mrs Merton Christmas Show '' (BBC1); Rory Bremner — ''Rory Bremner - Who Else?'' (Channel 4); Paul Merton — '' Have I Got News For You '' (BBC2)

Best Factual Series

---Winner: '' The House '' (??? / ???)

---Other nominees: '' Cutting Edge '' (??? / ???); '' People's Century '' (BBC / WGBH / BBC2); '' The System '' (??? / ???)

Flaherty Award for Single Documentary

---Winner: '' Horizon — Fermat's Last Theorem '' (BBC / BBC2)

---Other nominees: '''' ( Rocket Pictures / BBC?); ''Cutting Edge — The Home'' (??? / ???); '' Timewatch — Remember Aberfan '' (BBC / BBC2)

Huw Wheldon Award for Arts Programme or Series

---Winner: '' Leaving Home '' (??? / ???)

---Other nominees: '''' (??? / BBC2)

Light Entertainment Programme or Series

---Winner: '' Shooting Stars '' (BBC / BBC2)

---Other nominees: '' The Fast Show '' (BBC / BBC2); ''Rory Bremner - Who Else?'' ( Kudos Film & Television / Channel 4); '' Ruby Wax Meets '' (BBC / BBC1)

Best Talk Show

---Winner: ''The Mrs Merton Christmas Show'' (Granada Television / BBC1)

---Other nominees: '' Esther '' (??? / BBC2); '' Late Review '' (BBC / BBC2); '' Weekly Planet '' (??? / ???)

Best Sports / Events Coverage in Real Time

---Winner: '' Euro 96 Coverage '' (BBC / BBC1)

---Other nominees: '' Formula One Grand Prix Racing '' (BBC / BBC2); ''Monday Night Football '' ( Sky Sports ); '' Remembrance Sunday — The Cenotaph '' (BBC / BBC1)

Foreign Programme Award

---'' Murder One ''

The Lew Grade Award

---'' Coronation Street ''

The Dennis Potter Award

--- Peter Flannery

The Alan Clarke Award

--- Michael Wearing

The Richard Dimbleby Award

--- Robert Hughes

Special Awards

--- Charles F. Wheeler

REFERENCES

Archive of winners on official BAFTA website (retrieved March 26 2006 ).

British Academy Television Awards 1997 at the Internet Movie Database

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