Awards
Editor is John Phillipson
Winner Casualty stood out in its category, offering “everything you could want from a soap”.
For almost 40 years Casualty has endeavoured to reflect the challenges faced by NHS staff while offering entertainment, emotion and authenticity.
In the submitted episode, a Christmas special, the programme tackled the issue of blood donation, and, in particular, blood shortages around Christmas time.
The episode interspersed its scripted narrative, in which a well-loved character’s life hung in the balance due to a car crash, with real-life testimonies related to blood donation. One judge praised the programme’s “clever blending of fact and fiction which produced a genuinely moving episode”, while another added that “mixing real-life stories made this even more compelling rather than taking away from the story”.
