The British viewing public have voted and Doctor Who has cleaned up three prizes at the National Television Awards: it won most popular drama, most popular actress for Billie Piper and most popular actor for David Tennant.
If you think that’s a reflection on the excellent taste of the viewing public, just remember they voted Big Brother housemate Nikki Grahame the winner of the new category, “TV contender”. She can only be a contender if you vote for her, you fools!
I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
