The ceremony was hosted by Catriona Shearer and Sanjeev Kohli at the Oran Mor, Glasgow. A special mention went to Jim McColl for the 1000th episode of his gardening show Beechgrove Garden, for which he picked up The RTS Scotland Award.
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The Judges’ Award recognises an outstanding contribution to the UK’s television and media industry and the actor, writer, comedian and producer collected the Award in recognition of his work to raise awareness of issues surrounding diversity within the television industry.
Cheeky TV duo Ant and Dec were among the guests, and arrived looking very dapper and excited about their nomination of Entertainment Performance.
Other guests included Desert Island Discs' star Kirsty Young and Humans actor Gemma Chan who both looked stunning as they walked the carpet in elegant gowns.
The gents turned out in style too with Jack Whitehall, also has a nomination for Entertainment Performance, and Sports Presenter David Coulthard both look great in stylish suits.
See more from the red carpet below.
The RTS Programme Awards 2016 in partnership with Audio Network, honour excellence across all genres of television programming and recognise exceptional actors, presenters, writers and production teams as well as the programmes themselves.
Suranne Jones fought off stiff competition from Claire Foy (Wolf Hall) and Claire Rushbrook (Home Fires) to pick up the award for Female Actor for her performance in BBC One drama Doctor Foster, while Anthony Hopkins won the Male Actor award for BBC Two’s The Dresser.
Hello and thank you all for coming. If you are slightly bewildered at finding yourself at the British Museum on a Tuesday evening, I know how you feel. I’m a reluctant interviewee and an even more reluctant speechmaker. Tonight though I have no one to blame but myself. I chose to be here. I chose to be here because I wanted to speak for the first time about something that has mattered as much to me as anything I’ve put on the air at 4. I’m not going to bore you to death on terms of trade reform or the importance of Channel 4’s unique model.
The audience at “An evening with Kirsty Wark” saw a clip from early in her career, pre-Newsnight, when, thanks to thorough research, she caused then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to stumble. “I love the prep for an interview – it’s so important,” she said.
Joining the RTS Board of Trustees are Jane Turton, CEO of All3Media, and Rob Woodward, CEO of STV Group plc.
“These appointments are part of the Royal Television Society’s strategy for continued growth”, says RTS CEO Theresa Wise.
“The strength of our board is vital in ensuring we make the most effective use of our resources and with Jane and Rob’s extensive experience and industry knowledge they will make fantastic additions.”
Also announced are a number of new Fellows of the RTS.
The Society is offering 20 bursaries to students studying Television Production and Broadcast Journalism courses at accredited universities. A further five technology bursaries are also available to students studying Computing and Engineering at some of the top courses at British universities.
Writer/director John Morton explained to a packed London Centre event at the end of January that the show’s forerunner, London Olympics mockumentary Twenty Twelve, was initially poorly received by the BBC.
“Twenty Twelve had a bit of a bumpy start – it wasn’t always liked very much in the BBC,” revealed Morton. “When it went out and did okay the music changed from ‘We don’t think this is very good’ to ‘Can we have more of these wonderful characters?’.”
