TWO TV shows produced in Manchester are in the running for honours at a glitzy awards ceremony.
City Centre Social, and The Lancashire Cricket Show, both produced by the M.E.N's sister station
Channel M
, have been nominated in the Royal Television Society North Awards which are being hosted by actors Kym Ryder and Bradley Walsh.
City Centre Social, Gerry McLaughlin, is in the running for Best Regional Programme.
It features live music, celebrities and music insider-chat and has broadcast the television debut of bands including The Enemy, Cherry Ghost and Mercury Music Prize nominated Maps.
The Lancashire Cricket Show, which was only launched in May, has quickly become established as a `must' for sports fans.The weekly programme gives viewers unprecedented access and coverage of all things at the club, featuring previews and reviews of all Lancashire's fixtures, exclusive interviews with players and celebrities and coaching tips.
Hosted by Martin Hindley on location each week The Lancashire Cricket Show for the first time provides viewers with a programme solely dedicated to their club.
Exclusive interviews have included joining Freddie Flintoff on a trek in the Pennines as he recovered from injury.
Coronation Street, New Street Law and Shameless will all be battling it out for Best Drama Series, and the casts of the shows are expected to turn out in force for the ceremony at the city's Hilton Hotel on November 17.
Star actors John Thomson, Sue Cleaver and David Threlfall are competing for the Best Performance in a Continuing Drama or Drama Series, for their performances in New Street Law, Coronation Street and Shameless.
Johnny Vegas, Carl Rice and Steve Edge are all nominated for Best Performance in a Comedy and Gerard Kearns, Shaun Dooley and Matthew McNulty who all starred in the Mark of Cain, are nominated for Best Performance in a Drama.
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Channel M in running for honours
November 09, 2007
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Mark, South Manchester (09/11/2007 at 11:02)
OK not all the programmes work - but I really like their News bulletins. Andy Crane and the Channel M reporters are refreshingly informative, entertaining & down-to-earth. Not the usual middle-class, sarcastic, sneering types we come to expect from the BBC etc. They're always out there on the streets too - and I like the way Channel M has discovered & promoted fresh new talent! People we haven't seen before - except for that "dreaded" BBC Radio Manchester lot that is! Yes, if there's one main criticism I have of of Channel M - it's why they take on all those BBC RADIO MANCHESTER presenters?
BBC Radio Manchester is the only dedicated news & sport radio station in Manchester - yet is a dismally failing station with no track record of discovering new talent. Yet amazingly nobody gets sacked and they all seem to get offered "even more" jobs & opportunities in the Manchester media industry. Its "matey" employment practises - reek of cronyism & nepotism.
So keep finding & promoting "fresh new" talent Channel M - and please, no more of those BBC presenters! (Except maybe for Jack Dearden, who is exceptional.)
Laura Norder, Didsbury (09/11/2007 at 11:45)
It's fresh and focused on local issues. And, it's approachable and amenable, insofar as a call to the news desk often results in a camera crew being allocated to a story of genuine local interest. Keep it up!
(I have no links to the 'Station', but have experienced their aspiring professionalism.)