11.03.02
Cast
your vote for the TV programme of the year
Voting
begins today to decide the viewers' TV programme of the year at
next month's British Academy Television Awards.
The
shortlist for The Lew Grade Audience Award, sponsored by Radio Times,
consists of the 20 shows which attracted the biggest audiences in
2001, excluding films, news, repeats and sport - and votes can be
cast by phone or online at www.radiotimes.com.
In
the running are soaps including EastEnders, Coronation Street and
Emmerdale; documentaries such as The Blue Planet and Walking With
Beasts; and the dramas Heartbeat, London's Burning and Buried Treasure.
In
the past four years, David Jason and the late John Thaw have each
received the trophy twice. Both are nominated this year - David
Jason in A Touch of Frost and Only Fools and Horses, and John Thaw
for Buried Treasure.
The
award is the only one voted for by the British viewing public. The
winner will be announced at the ceremony in the Theatre Royal, Drury
Lane on Sunday 21 April. The full shortlist reads:
- A
Touch of Frost
- My
Family
-
Airline
- Only
Fools and Horses
- The
Blue Planet
- Popstars
-
The British Soap Awards
-
The Royal Variety Performance
- Buried
Treasure
- Soapstars
Special
- Coronation
Street
- Stars
In Their Eyes Coronation St Special
- EastEnders
- Walking
With Beasts
- Emmerdale
- Weakest
Link
- Heartbeat
- Who
Wants To Be A Millionaire?
- London's
Burning
- Who
Wants To Be A Millionaire Celebrity?
There
are full details in this week's Radio Times or at .
One voter will win a JVC 32in widescreen colour TV, worth 拢1,400.
Lines
close on Thursday 21 March and the top five programmes go through
to a second (final) round of voting, to begin on Tuesday 9 April.
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