North
Square, the hard-hitting legal drama, ditched by Channel
4, has won four accolades. It has been named Best TV Drama
Series by the Broadcasting Press Guild. The show also
won the guild’s awards for Best TV Actor; Best TV
Actress and Best TV Writer.
North Square was created as Channels 4’s answer
to This Life, the successful BBC2 series and won
rave reviews but received only indifferent viewing figures.
The drama series, set in Leeds, was created by Peter Moffat,
a former barrister turned playwright and was liberally
sprinkled with bad language and behaviour. The often raunchy
show centred around a group of pushy young barristers
determined to win at all costs and not afraid to cut corners.
Although Channel 4 have abandoned plans for a second series
of the show, it has been suggested that the BBC are interested
in taking it over.
Longtitude, the epic four-hour drama starring Michael
Gambon and based on a best-selling book about the inventor
of the chronometer, John Harrison, was named Best Single
Drama. Best Documentary Series was the BBC’s A
History Of Britain, written and presented by Simon
Schama of Columbia University. Panorama’s investigative
film Who Bombed Omagh? was named Best Single Documentary.
Members of the Guild who voted for the awards are all
professional journalists who write about broadcasting.
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