BRITISH programmes dominate nominations for the prestigious
International Emmy awards for television.
Chris Evans's entertainment show Don't Forget Your Toothbrush,
holocaust documentary Anne Frank Remembered, and The Politician's Wife,
which starred Juliet Stevenson, are among those in the running for top
awards at the Gala in New York later this month.
The BBC picked up five nominations in the six programme categories,
Channel Four collected four, but the ITV companies notched up only two
-- both for programmes on Carlton.
Carlton's predecessor, Thames, is still involved in programme
production and picked up a co-nomination with the BBC.
The International Emmys are an offshoot of the awards for American
programmes made by its National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
It has already been announced that BBC director general John Birt will
gain recognition with a directorate Emmy, and Sir Peter Ustinov will be
the Gala host on November 20.
The BBC was also nominated for an International Emmy in the Children
and Young People's category for Little Lord Fauntleroy, an adaptation of
a Francis Hodgson-Burnett story about an American boy adopted by his
aristocratic English grandfather.
Other British nominations include Child of Chernobyl, (Zenith North
for Carlton UK), Bookmark -- Sex, Lies and Jerzy Kosinski (BBC), A Short
Film About Loving, (WDR, KOLN and Channel Four co-production), and Cold
Comfort Farm (BBC and Thames Television).
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