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Event Information:
The
National Television Awards is
to be held in January at the O2
Arena. The National Television
Awards is a British television
awards ceremony, broadcast by the
ITV network and initiated in 1995.
The National Television Awards are
the most prominent ceremony for
which the results are voted on by
the general public. Because of the
way the awards are decided, winners
are not given the title "Best", but
rather "Most Popular". The ceremony
was traditionally held annually in
October and hosted by Sir Trevor
McDonald. However, after no ceremony
was held in 2009, McDonald stepped
down from the role, which passed to
Dermot O'Leary.
Categories at the 2006 Awards
ceremony, which was held on the
evening on 31 October were:
Entertainment Presenter, TV
Contender, Entertainment Programme,
Reality Programme, Drama, Serial
Drama (soap opera), Newcomer, Actor,
Actress, Quiz Programme, Daytime
Programme, Comedy and Factual
Programme. Viewers can vote for the
short-list of nominees from an
initial long list prepared by ITV,
and then later can vote by text
message, the official website and
phone for which of the nominees in
each category should win. The awards
ceremony, held at the Royal Albert
Hall, (until 2010 when it moved to
the O2 Arena) is shown in full by
ITV. This is sometimes live, but has
also been the evening after it takes
place, by which time the results
have usually been widely reported in
the British media.
Unlike
the BAFTAs and other similar awards
ceremonies, the National Television
Awards allow foreign programmes to
be nominated, providing they have
been screened on a British channel
during the eligible time period. For
example, American series Desperate
Housewives was nominated in the 2005
Most Popular Drama category. The O2
Arena (visually typeset in branding
as The O2 arena, referred to as
North Greenwich Arena in context of
the Summer Olympics and
Paralympics) is a multi-purpose
indoor arena located in the centre
of The O2, a large entertainment
complex on the Greenwich peninsula
in London, England.
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