Banff Announces Nominees

CANNES,
April 16: At an event in Cannes yesterday, the Banff World Television Festival
unveiled the nominees for this year’s awards, which attracted more than 800
entries across 20 categories.

The award winners will be announced at the 28th Banff
World Television Awards Show, presented in partnership with CanWest MediaWorks,
at the Fairmont Banff Springs, in Banff Canada, on Monday, June 11. Nominees
were culled from 38 countries, led by the U.S., with the U.K. a close second.
Several nominees also came from Australia, Canada, France and Germany, and
Russia received nominations for the first time. Other countries represented
include Argentina, Denmark, India, South Africa and Switzerland.

Besides the 107 nominees for the Banff “Rockie”
Awards, an additional 85 programs have been selected for out of competition
recognition.

The list of nominees includes:

Animation Programs

Arthur: Unfinished; D.W.
Bossy Boots (Cookie Jar)

Catscratch: Clan-Destiny (Nickelodeon)

I Swear I Saw It: Matinta Perera (Multirio –
Empresa Municipal de Multimeios)

Peter And The Wolf (Channel
4)

Pocoyo: A Little Something Between Friends (Granada
International)

SpongeBob Squarepants: Dunces and Dragons (Nickelodeon)

Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!: A Tale of Tails/Special Delivery
(Starz)

The Wrong Trainers (BBC)

Arts Documentaries

Eternal Talent of Jimmy Rosenberg (Netherlands
Public Broadcasting)

Hitler's Museum (ARTE GEIE)

Knowledge is the Beginning (EuroArts
Music International)

La Pathétique (13 Production)

Prisoners of Beckett (NFB)

Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski (TVP)

Children's Programs

Eva's Winterplaster: "Sleep" (Sveriges
Television)

Jackanory: The Magician of Samarkand (BBC)

Mortified: The Talk (ACTF)

Nine-and-a-Half: Middle East Conflict
(Westdeutscher Rundfunk)

Numberjacks: Nine Lives (Beyond)

Run after the Recorder (NHK)

This is Emily Yeung: This is Emily Yeung at a Farm
(marblemedia)

Comedy

Green Wing (Channel 4)

The Knights Of Prosperity: Pilot (ABC)

Little Mosque on the Prairie: Pilot (WestWind
Pictures)

Pulling (BBC)

Rick Mercer Report: Episode 5 (Island
Edge)

The Vicar of Dibley: The Handsome Stranger (Tiger
Aspect)

Continuing Series

Brothers & Sisters: Mistakes Were Made (ABC
Television Studio)

Dirt: Pilot (ABC Television Studio)

Les hauts et les bas de Sophie Paquin: Episode 1 (Sphère
Média Plus)

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip: Pilot (Warner
Bros.)

The Street: Episode 1 (Granada)

The Wire: Boys of Summer (HBO)

Family & Youth Programs

Alaska Teen Rescue (A&E)

Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway: Episode 1 (ITV)

Heartlines: The Good Provider (Curious
Pictures)

Ithuteng: Never Stop Learning (HBO)

South Of Nowhere: That's The Way The World Crumbles
(The N)

You Are My Destiny (Munhwa
Broadcasting Corporation)

Feature Length Documentaries

37 Uses For A Dead Sheep
(Tigerlily Films)

American Experience—Jonestown: The Life and
Death of Peoples Temple (WGBH)

My Father the Turk
(Suedwestrundfunk)

Rain in my Heart (BBC)

Welcome Europa (ARTE France)

History & Biography Programs

Battle of Chernobyl
(Discovery)

Bergman Island (Sveriges Television)

The Fabric of a Dream: The Fletcher Jones Story (Film Australia)

The Island of Death (NHK)

Jonestown Paradise Lost
(Cineflix)

Nuremberg: Goering's Last Stand (Channel
4)

Woman See Lot of Things (ARTE
France)

Lifestyle Programs

Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie: China (WGBH)

Life's a Trip: Japan (Tricon
Films and Television)

Making It Big (Making It Big Productions)

Style By Jury: Kelly of the Night
(Planetworks)

VIP Weekends With Ian Wright: UK – The Earl and
Countess of Canarvon (Discovery)

Made for TV Movies

Curtin (Apollo Films)

Death of a President (Channel
4)

Dracula (Granada)

Heartlines (Curious

What We Did On Our Holiday (ITV)

The Wind in the Willows (Muse
Entertainment Enterprises)

Mini-Series

Broken Trail (AMC)

The First Circle (TV Channel Russia)

Mistake (Moskito Television)

See No Evil: The Moors Murders (ITV)

Stalin's Wife (Studio Mirabel)

Popular Science & Natural History Programs

Animals in the Womb (Channel
4)

Cuttlefish – The Brainy Bunch (Kaufmann
Productions)

The Meadow (nautilusfilm)

NATURE: Christmas in Yellowstone
(Thirteen/WNET New York)

Warplane (Thirteen/WNET New York)

Wolverines—Hyenas Of The North (Gulo
Film Productions, Germany)

Reality Format Programs

Dog the Bounty Hunter: To Love and To Cherish (A&E)

Dragons' Den (BBC)

Fat Men Can't Hunt (BBC)

Intervention: Sylvia (A&E)

The Prison Choir (TVE)

Social & Political Documentaries

Breaking Up with the Joneses (Betty
TV)

Frontline: The Age of AIDS
(Frontline)

Frozen Angels (ZDF)

Gamer Revolution (Red Apple)

Hercules Ventures into the World (TVP)

When The Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (HBO)

Telenovela & Drama Serial Programs

Coronation Street (ITV)

Eastenders (BBC)

Home Affairs (Penguin Films)

Love In Difficult Times: The Cave (TVE)

Sturm der Liebe (Bavaria Media)