{"id":15391,"date":"2018-11-26T10:52:19","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T15:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/hey-duggee-wins-big-british-academy-childrens-awards\/"},"modified":"2018-11-26T11:20:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T16:20:31","slug":"hey-duggee-wins-big-at-british-academy-childrens-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvkids\/hey-duggee-wins-big-at-british-academy-childrens-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey Duggee Wins Big at British Academy Children’s Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"
The recipients of this year’s British Academy Children’s Awards were revealed during a ceremony hosted by Marvin and Rochelle Humes at the Roundhouse in London yesterday.<\/p>\n
Hey Duggee<\/em> (Studio AKA\/CBeebies) secured a total of three BAFTA wins, including for preschool animation. The show was also victorious in the digital category for its companion app Hey Duggee: The Counting Badge<\/em> (Scary Beasties\/BBC Studios\/Studio AKA), while Grant Orchard took home the award for best director.<\/p>\n The best channel prize went to CBeebies. Clive Juster, who has produced such hit kids’ series as Mr Benn<\/em>, King Rollo<\/em> and Towser<\/em>, won the special award for his outstanding contribution to children’s media.<\/p>\n The winner in the comedy category was So Awkward<\/em> (Channel X North\/CBBC), while Joe All Alone<\/em> (Zodiak Kids Studios\/CBBC) was named best drama. The entertainment and factual awards went to Prosiect Z<\/em> (Boom\/S4C) and Mumbai Street Strikers<\/em> (My Life)<\/em> (Drummer TV\/CBBC), respectively.<\/p>\n The inaugural content for change prize was given to What Do You Mean I Can’t Change the World?<\/em> (CTVC\/TrueTube). Paddington 2<\/em> (STUDIOCANAL\/HeyDay Films) won for feature film, while Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle<\/em> (Ubisoft Paris\/Milan) was chosen as best game.<\/p>\n The victors in the international animation, preschool and live action categories were SpongeBob SquarePants<\/em> (Nickelodeon Animation Studio\/Nicktoons), Tumble Leaf<\/em> (Amazon Studios\/Bix Pix Entertainment\/Prime Video) and Nowhwere Boys: Two Moons Rising<\/em> (Matchbox Pictures\/CBBC), respectively.<\/p>\n Best performer went to Tom Courtenay for BBC One’s Grandpa’s Great Escape<\/em>;\u00a0the presenter prize went to Justin Fletcher for CBeebies’ Something Special<\/em>; and Chloe Lea was named best young performer for CBBC’s Katy<\/em>.<\/p>\n The preschool live action winner was Get Well Soon Hospital<\/em> (Kindle Entertainment\/CBeebies). The short form award went to Origins<\/em> (CTVC\/TrueTube). And the writer category was won by Tom Bidwell for Katy<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The recipients of this year’s British Academy Children’s Awards were revealed during a ceremony hosted by Marvin and Rochelle Humes at the Roundhouse in London yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":479,"featured_media":15392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[1977,1978,632],"class_list":["post-15391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-bafta","tag-british-academy-childrens-awards","tag-hey-duggee","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"\n