National TV Awards 2008: Two for Who?

[Si Hunt]

Doctor Who has picked up three nominations at the National TV Awards for the third consecutive year.

The hit show faces competition from Life On Mars, The Bill and Shameless in the Most Popular Drama category.

David Tennant has been shortlisted for Most Popular Actor for the third time, where he will compete against Coronation Street's Anthony Cotton, Hollyoaks' James Sutton and EastEnders' Charlie Clements.

Co-star Freema Agyeman will take on Corrie's Sue Cleaver as well as Lacey Turner and Kara Tointon from EastEnders for Most Popular Actress, which has been won by Billie Piper for the last two years.

Any Dream Will Do, Dancing on Ice, Strictly Come Dancing, Britain's Got Talent and The X Factor will battle for the new Best Talent Show gong.

ITV and BBC have each received 18 nominations for the awards, which are voted for by the public. The winners will be announced at a ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall on October 31.

Host Trevor McDonald said: "It has been a controversial year for the TV industry which has rarely been out of the news, but the National Television Awards are a celebration of TV programming at its most popular. The variety of nominees this year shows the remarkable range and diversity of the programmes we all watch."

The awards in full:

Most Popular Entertainment Programme
An Audience With Take That Live
Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
Deal Or No Deal
Friday Night With Jonathan Ross
8 Out Of 10 Cats

Most Popular Entertainment Presenter
Ant and Dec
Fern Britton
Graham Norton
Jonathan Ross
Paul O'Grady

Most Popular Drama
Doctor Who
Life On Mars
Shameless
The Bill

Most Popular Actress
Freema Agyeman (Doctor Who)
Kara Tointon (EastEnders)
Lacey Turner (EastEnders)
Sue Cleaver (Coronation Street)

Most Popular Actor
Anthony Cotton (Coronation Street)
Charlie Clements (EastEnders)
David Tennant (Doctor Who)
James Sutton (Hollyoaks)

Most Popular Newcomer
Gemma Merna (Hollyoaks)
Jo Joyner (EastEnders)
Joseph Gilgun (Emmerdale)
Kym Ryder (Coronation Street)

Most Popular Serial Drama
Coronation Street
EastEnders
Emmerdale
Hollyoaks

Most Popular Comedy Programme
Harry Hill's TV Burp
My Family
The Catherine Tate Show
Ugly Betty

Most Popular Factual Programme
Gordon Ramsay's F word
The Jeremy Kyle Show
This Morning
Top Gear

Most Popular Talent Show
Any Dream Will Do
Britain's Got Talent
Dancing On Ice
Strictly Come Dancing
The X Factor

Most Popular Reality Programme
Big Brother
I'm A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!
Shipwrecked: Battle Of The Islands
The Apprentice

In particular:

Co-star Freema Agyeman will take on Corrie's Sue Cleaver

It's a contest we'd all cheer on. Who keeps nominating Cleaver? Is it a joke?

Si.

[Pip Madeley]

I'll be voting for Drew, David and Freema.

Vote here - http://www.nationaltvawards.com - you've got till 31st October!

[Larry]

of the 3 i'd say David has the best chance of winning .

[Si Hunt]

Would I be a traitor if I voted for Sue?

Si.

[Si Hunt]

I've also betrayed Marsh and gone for rough-bit-of-totty Joseph Gilgun.

Si.

[Lissa]

Aren't these awards just a depressingly shallow waste of time? Awards used to celebrate the "best" of things but now we're giving prizes for the most popular programmes. Has Britain become an American high school? If so, why has no one pointed me in the direction of the changing rooms?

And Trevor McDonald, bless him, has pissed away what little shreds of credibility he had left by claiming "the variety of nominees this year shows the remarkable range and diversity of the programmes we all watch". That would explain why almost all the acting nominations come from soaps. Because you don't get much more diverse than soap operas set in Liverpool, Manchester and London.

As for the factual category, when Top Gear is the most intelligent show nominated you know you're in trouble. Just because it encourages people to stop dragging their knuckles and start using them to drive too quickly doesn't make it The World at War.

Frankly, Doctor Who should be ashamed to be part of such squalid nonsense.

[Pip Madeley]

Frankly, Doctor Who should be ashamed to be part of such squalid nonsense.

It'd be even worse if it couldn't win an award from such nonsense...

[Lissa]

Why? Because websites and forums got people to vote for Doctor Who, probably several times? That proves nothing except that Doctor Who has a more organised fanbase than the soaps. It's hardly being honoured by your peers.

David Tennant will win, Freema won't win because the public don't like her and Doctor Who will beat off its eclectic opposition.

David Tennant will win many awards in his career and whatever piece of plastic he gets from the sponsors of these awards will go in a box at the back of a cupboard with whatever is the second least prestigious trophy on top of it.

[Si Hunt]

Freema won't win because the public don't like her

Maybe Freema won't win because of a late surge of votes for Sue Cleaver.

Si.

[Larry]

I voted yesterday but I have to be honest best drama was difficult choice as I enjoyed Life on Mars just as much as I did Doctor Who.

[Milky Tears]

Tonight's the night when Antony Cotton, Sue Cleaver, Kym Ryder and Corrie sweep all before them at the National/ITV Television Awards.


WORSHIP THEM!!!

[Dirk Gently]

Don't you mean this is the night that Doctor Who sweeps all before it?

[Milky Tears]

Doctor What?

[Dirk Gently]

Change of name?

[Si Hunt]

Tenant's just won Best Actor!

Si.

[Simon R]

Pity the Freema. Sat on by Racey Lacey Knickers Turner.

We didn't watch the show but I did catch Tennant's speech and near falling over. Bless hit cottons. It was sweet that he dedicated the award to his mother.

[Milky Tears]

Looking good.




The Backstage/Aftershow stuff with Jack 'n' Kelly on ITV2 was just about as bad as Sam 'n' Mick at the 1989 Brit Awards!

The whole Osbourne clan should be shot.

At least Cotton didn't win!

[Dave Tudor]

Tate won Most Popular Comedy Show!

[WhiteCrow]

Looking good.

Is it me, or does he look like he's trying to inch his hand up to cop a feel?

Bad Doctor - I think we've another Tom Baker on our hands ...

[Pip Madeley]

Yay!

Glad to wake up to the news that Doctor Who won best drama & Tennant won best actor.

Both rightly deserved!

[Larry]

am I correct in thinking that Doctor Who has now won best drama award in the National TV Awards 3 years running as well as best actor.

[Pip Madeley]

You are. Chris Eccleston in 2005, David Tennant in 2006 and 2007.

[Larry]

when you consider how embarrassing you felt to be a Doctor Who, fan back in the 1980's and how bad people considered the programm to be it dose give me a warm feeling of smug satisfaction at all these awards we are now constantly winning.

[WhiteCrow]

Lets keep a bit of perspective here ... Ant and Dec were given awards for their contribution.

Do you think that's deserved? Ring our hotline now, calls cost £10 a minute, and may not even be counted ...

[Larry]

Lets keep a bit of perspective here ... Ant and Dec were given awards for their contribution.

Do you think that's deserved? Ring our hotline now, calls cost £10 a minute, and may not even be counted ...

contribution to what - tacky cheap tv.