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Clean sweep for actuality programmes
10/07/2001 12:30 - (SA)
Carel Lessing, Beeld
Pretoria - SABC3 and M-Net, with their respective flagship actuality
programmes Special Assignment and Carte Blanche made a clean
sweep of the Avanti nominations, the local awards that celebrate television productions.
Four deliveries of both programmes were nominated in the category for news
actuality.
e.tv's 3rd Degree, received no
nominations in this category, however, presenter Debora Patta was nominated
for the category best presenter.
The four nominations for the category best comedy went to e.tv productions.
Nominations for only 7 of the 46 NTVA Avantis categories were announced,
with nominations for soaps still outstanding as a result of the huge number
of entries received. A record number of 520 entries for the Avantis were
received this year.
The Avantis are to be announced this coming weekend at Caesars Gauteng with the Narrowcast awards (Television not intended for broadcasting) on Friday and broadcasting awards scheduled for Saturday.
An edited version of the award ceremony will be broadcast on SABC3 on
Saturday July 21 at 21:30.
The Avantis, the only independent, professional awards issued for the video and television industry, are a product of the National Television and Video Association (NTVA) of South Africa.
Nominations are as follows:
Best presenter: The Toasty Show? Kenneth Nkosi; Jam
Alley? Nimrod Nkosi; Phat Joe Live? Phat Joe and e.tv? Debora
Patta.
Drama series: Khululeka IV episodes 1,2,7; Soul Buddyz
episode 21; and The Bomb of Yizo Yizo.
Unique Drama: Angels in a Cage; Queen? Messenger & Malunde; Real
Illusion and Dr Lucille.
Music video: Urban Brew Studios?Music Video; Devereux-Harris
& Ass for Bayete; Oliver Mtukudzi & Lebo; Red Pepper Pictures for
Kabelo & Mzambiya? Jezi#10 and Threshold Collective for Johannes
Kerkorrel? Die Ander Kant.
Comedy series: Scoop Schoombie; S.O.S; Madam & Eve and The
Big Okes.
News actuality: Special Assignment? Bishop from Hyogy, Benni Dog
Unit, Voices in the Dark - Classroom Secrets and Emakhosikati;
Nicola de Chaude for Carte Blanche? Elder Abuse and Death in
Sierra Leone; Susan Puren for Carte Blanche? Brother Reunions
and The Helderberg Conspiracy.
News actuality inserts: Carte Blanche? The Line, A Woman with a
Mission and The Will to Live; Code 14: License to Kill and
Bucket Brigade; e.tv? Double Justice and the SABC? Mind
Over Matter and First People of the South.
- Beeld
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