National Treasure Wins Program of the Year at Edinburgh TV Awards

The Edinburgh International Television Festival, sponsored by YouTube and BT, has revealed the winners from each of the categories at its TV Awards, honoring National Treasure as program of the year.

National Treasure, produced by The Forge Entertainment for Channel 4, comes from screenwriter Jack Thorne and is directed by BAFTA-winning director Marc Munden. The cast is led by Robbie Coltrane, Julie Walters and Andrea Riseborough.

The channel of the year award went to BBC One, while Left Bank Pictures took home the win for production company of the year.

The honor of best international co-production went to The Tunnel: Sabotage, a Sky Atlantic and CANAL+ co-production from Kudos and Shine France Films. Employable (BBC Two, Optomen Television) won for best factual program.

The outstanding achievement award was presented to Russell T. Davies.

The TV moment of the year, as voted for by delegates exclusively via the Festival app, went to AJ’s priceless reaction to new football boots in Rich House, Poor House.

The ones to watch live pitch award was presented to Oliver Martin, digital producer and YouTube manager, BBC Earth.

Festival Director Lisa Campbell said: “It’s been another year of tough competition, so huge congratulations to our winners. This passionate drive to create and produce programs of such exceptional quality continues to make our decision that much harder. This is British and global television at its best.”