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Britain's prestigious Royal Television Society Programme Awards is abandoning plans to hold the event in front of a small audience of winners and RTS representatives. Deadline revealed last week that the Grosvenor House Hotel event will be live-streamed online, with only an intimate audience of winners and organizers…

EXCLUSIVE: Britain’s prestigious Royal Television Society Programme Awards are to be held behind closed doors next week amid coronavirus concerns. The awards, one of the pinnacles of the RTS calendar, are due to take place on March 17 at central London’s Grosvenor House Hotel, which can host up to 2,000 people. But…

The BBC led the pack at the UK's Royal Televsion Society Programme Awards, taking 13 awards for shows including Fleabag, Happy Valley and Undercover. The RTS Programme Awards, which took place in London on Wednesday night and was hosted by comedian Sandi Toksvig, saw the BBC scooped 13 awards including the newly…

Channel 4's mini-series National Treasure leads the pack in the Royal Television Society nominations this year. The drama, which has been nominated in four categories including Best Mini-Series, stars Julie Walters and Robbie Coltrane and follows a television comedian who is accused of raping a 15 year-old girl…

BBC One's Tom Hiddleston/Hugh Laurie-starrer The Night Manager won big at the Royal Television Society's Craft and Design Awards last night, taking three prizes for Costume Design (Signe Sejlund), Make-Up Design (Jenna Wrage) and Music (Victor Reyes). BBC mini War And Peace earned two prizes for Special Effects (Jens…

Britain's Royal Television Society, which represents major television execs, has appointed Virgin Media CEO Tom Mockridge as chair of its new board of trustees. He'll succeed ITN CEO John Hardie, who has reached the end of his term. RTS has also appointed Simon Pitts as its new vice chair. He's managing director of…

Attention, Human Beings of Britain: Community‘s Season 6 is coming to the UK courtesy of Sony less than 24 hours after it debuts on Yahoo Screen in the U.S. Sony Entertainment Television will air the first double-bill episode of the new season on March 18 at 10:05 PM. After Dan Harmon’s cult comedy was cancelled by…

The Royal Television Society has announced its shortlist for the RTS Craft & Design Awards. The prizes are spread across 25 categories, recognizing the variety of skills and processes involved in program production. Among the most-nominated are Channel 4 series Utopia (not to be confused with the recently cancelled Fox…