Byker Grove up for children’s Bafta despite cancellation
Axed BBC show Byker Grove has been nominated for best drama at this year’s Bafta Children’s awards.
The programme, which was made by production company Zenith North and finished last year after 17 years, is up for the award against Jackanory - The Magician of Samarkand, made by CBBC and narrated by Ben Kingsley, That Summer Day, produced by Hat Trick Productions for CBBC, and Feelgood Fiction’s My Life as a Popat, which was aired on CITV.
Charlie Martin, the director of My Life as a Popat, has been nominated in the breakthrough talent category alongside Hannah Pescod, producer of That Summer Day, a drama about the events of July 7, 2005.
Meanwhile, production houses Aardman, The Foundation, Tiger Aspect Productions and Twenty Twenty Television will battle it out for the title of independent production company of the year, while CBeebies, Nickelodeon UK, its pre-school channel Nick JR UK and on-demand offering Scamp will compete for the title of channel of the year.
The awards will be announced at a ceremony on November 25 at the London Hilton.
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External links
- Entry for Byker Grove in IMDB
- BAFTA Children's Awards nominations 2007
- British Academy of Film and Television Arts
- Entry for Byker Grove in Wikipedia
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