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[SteveManfred]

"Doctor Who" has picked up 3 Hugo Award nominations in the "Best Dramatic Presentation: Short Form" category, specifically one for episode 6 ("Dalek"), one for episode 8 ("Father's Day") and one for the 2-part story that is episodes 9 and 10 ("The Empty Child" & "The Doctor Dances"). My money's on 9/10. :)

http://www.emcit.com...ion.php?nom.htm

[MC_Hamster]

Surely 9/10 is a cheat, though, since it comes to about an hour and a half in total?

Anyway, I'm not sure that it's a good thing that the show should get so many different episodes nominated - it means that the Doctor Who block vote could be split three ways, allowing one of the others to pull in front.

[dalek]

90 minutes is the divide between long and short form. I think short form is 90 minutes or less and long form is 90 minutes or more, so it was just a matter of where the committee felt it should go. Since short form was originally created so that quality tv would not keep losing out to big budget movies, I'm guessing the committee's reasoning was "it's tv, put it in the short form category."

[MC_Hamster]

I see! Thanks!

Edited by MC_Hamster, Mar 22, 2006 @ 12:00 PM.

[payndz]

Hopefully RTD or whoever will do what J Michael Straczynski did some years back when several Babylon 5 episodes were nominated for the same Hugo - arrange for only one episode to get the final nomination so as not to split the vote.

What a tough choice to make, though! (And interesting that none of them are RTD-penned episodes.)

[dalek]

Also, on the "split three ways" issue, the Hugo finalist vote is one of those weighted voting things where you rank from 1 to 5, so if you put all the Dr Who episodes as your top three, they wouldn't necessarily cancel each other out and cause Pegasus to win

[Nuallain]

The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances is 84' 49" long including two sets of titles and credits, so it definitely comes under the 'short form' side of the Hugo rule.

[NickBarlow]

The show's also got one BAFTA TV Awards (the British equivalent of the Emmys) - the full nominations aren't out yet, but it's been nominated for the Pioneer Award, which is voted for by the public rather than the members of the academy.

[lastro]

The show has been nominated for 2 Viewers Choice "06.Spaceys" (award run by Canada's equivalent to the SciFi channel).

* "Favourite TV Show" - Doctor Who
* "Favourite New TV Character" - Rose Tyler

Their website is open to voters between March 23 to May 8.

http://www.spacecast...ites/spaceys06/

Edited by lastro, Mar 24, 2006 @ 3:13 PM.

[Paul Hayes]

To add to the good news of last week's Hugo nominations, today it was revealed that Doctor Who has been nominated in the Best Drama Series category at the 2006 British Academy Television Awards (BAFTAs).

This is by far and away the most prestigious and high-profile award the show has ever been shortlisted for, as the BAFTAs are the British equivalent of the Emmy Awards in the United States. Its opposition in the category is Spooks (not as good as it has been, bagged the award in 2003, probably the outsider); Shameless (won the category last year, could get it again but they don't tend to do that unless it's been really outstanding, and while good it hasn't quite been as good as its first two years); and Bodies (a big critical favourite, cancelled by the BBC recently for low ratings but beat Who in the equivalent category at the recent Royal Television Society awards - probably the main contender).

Doctor Who is also up for the only viewer-voted BAFTA, the Pioneer Award, the nominations for which were announced last week.

Overall this is a great, great honour for the show, and a fine recognition of the achievements and efforts not just of this production team, but all the others who worked on the show down the decades.

Fingers crossed for May 7th!

Some more info on the BAFTAs generally, for those who'd like to read up on them:
http://en.wikipedia....levision_Awards

This year's full nominations:
http://news.bbc.co.u...ent/4848666.stm

Edited by Paul Hayes, Mar 27, 2006 @ 1:02 PM.

[Nuallain]

Doctor has been nominated for 14 awards by the BAFTA Cymru Film, Television and New Media Awards. Linked the BAFTAs, but specifically for TV and films made in Wales DW was always pretty much a shoe-in here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk.../30/30792.shtml

[EnglishMuffin]

DW has won five of those Bafta Cymru awards, and Russell T Davies also received an award for outstanding contribution to network television. Well deserved, I think.

Edited by EnglishMuffin, Apr 22, 2006 @ 3:39 PM.

[PollyQ]

Dang, English Muffin beat me to the draw! Anyway, it seems that these awards are still being handed out (at posting time), so there may be more to come.

[Paul Hayes]

Well, the main BAFTAs are being handed out tonight, so let's keep our fingers crossed and hope the show can land the Drama Series category. Alison Graham's BAFTA predictions in this week's Radio Times have it picked as the winner, but then again given that in the same magazine she claims that The Girl in the Fireplace is "silly and I didn't understand a word of it", perhaps her views can't be taken all that seriously...

[Paul Hayes]

http://news.bbc.co.u...ent/4982648.stm

It won. It bloody won!

The little show that was a dead and buried joke has won the most prestigious award it is possible for it to win in British television.

I love Doctor Who.

[payndz]

That is, to coin a phrase, fantastic! For a science fiction series even to be BAFTA nominated is remarkable, but to win? Hee!

What's that saying? "First they ignore you. Then they mock you. Then they fight you. Then you win." Something like that. I guess that becoming as much a part of the British cultural heritage as Dickens has its advantages. The long game, indeed!

[Paul Hayes]

Of course, it should be mentioned that not only did it win the Best Drama Series category, but also the audience voted Pioneer Award, and Russell T Davies was given the honorary Dennis Potter Award for Outstanding Writing for Television for his work across his entire career.

[NikkiH]

Congratulations to all involved with the show!

I could never see a sci-fi show winning an Emmy or even being nominated.

[payndz]

I could never see a sci-fi show winning an Emmy or even being nominated.

Star Trek: TNG got a Best Drama nomination for season 7. Which was kind of ironic, since S7 was very weak compared to its previous few years. I think it was rather like when they nominate somebody really old for a Best [Whatever] Oscar, on the grounds that they'll be dead soon and it'd seem weird if they never got any recognition for their career.

[krob]

And Buffy was nominated for a writing Emmy 2000 (ironically, for "Hush" which had practically no dialogue.) But it does seem that these things are rare.

Edited by krob, May 7, 2006 @ 6:26 PM.

[NikkiH]

Well, I guess I was wrong then. Heh.

I guess it's just so rare that I never noticed.

[PollyQ]

It also depends on how strictly you define "science fiction": Lost actually won the Emmy last year for best drama (along with 5 other wins & 6 noms), and Alias has been nominated for a number of Emmy Awards over the years.

Back on topic ... uh ... yay Dr. Who and congrats to Russell Davies!

[Tirtzah]

I agree some acting nominations would be nice. Too bad CE wasn't nominated as he did do a fantastic job. (Fantastic is just the standard superlatative that I use now.) Though I do recall Billie Piper winning some other award a while back for her role in the series. Can't recall exactly what it was though.

None the less congrats to all involved. Definitely some validation for the genre and for RTD and Julie Gardner who took the risk of bringing the show back to tv. Great ratings and critical eclaim, can't get much better than that.

[Paul Hayes]

Though I do recall Billie Piper winning some other award a while back for her role in the series. Can't recall exactly what it was though.

She won the Most Popular Actress award at the audience-voted National Television Awards back in October, and also another audience-voted gong, the Breakthrough Award, at the South Bank Show Awards, a general arts awards ceremony, in January.

[Nuallain]

And of course, the Best Actress was Anna Maxwell Martin. Although it was for her role in Bleak House, it was nice to see after her work in Long Game as Suki/Eva.

[Chorusgirl]

Congrats to everyone involved. Quite an achievement!

Is this similar to the Emmys in that specific episodes need to be submitted for consideration? The season was uniformly excellent but there were several eps that I thought were just outstanding. I was wondering which were submitted.

[Sultana]

I'm pretty sure the award is for the series as a whole.

[Ocipital]

When Red Dwarf won te Bafta for best comedy in 1994, it was for the specific episode Gunman of the Appocalypse. That may well have changed or be different for dramas

[Paul Hayes]

Series do indeed submit one episode for judgement by the academy. The submitted episode was The Parting of the Ways.