Royal Television Society Awards shun talent shows

730AM GMT seventeen March 2010

Simon Cowell"s strike shows longed for out at the TV awards rite Photo PA

The Saturday night ITV bent shows were knocked about in the party difficulty by BBC4"s Newswipe With Charlie Brooker, call a outrageous hearten from the throng at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London.

BBC humerous party The Thick Of It, combined by Armando Ianucci and starring Peter Capaldi as a foul-mouthed supervision turn doctor, kick The Inbetweeners and Miranda to the pretension of most appropriate scripted comedy.

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Experimental cook Heston Blumenthal picked up the drum in the facilities and lifestyle array difficulty for his Channel 4 array Heston"s Feasts.

The programme, in that he recreated uncanny and smashing Victorian recipes, kick BBC3 array Don"t Tell The Bride and Channel 4"s The Sex Education Show vs Pornography.

There was a serve blow for Britain"s Got Talent decider Piers Morgan.

He was knocked about to the endowment for most appropriate presenter by Louis Theroux, who clinched the pretension for his BBC documentary A Place For Paedophiles in that he interviewed and sought to assimilate convicted paedophiles in America.

American promotion play Mad Men, that stars John Hamm and Christina Hendricks, won in the general category, whilst Big And Small Blame It On The Drain picked up the endowment for most appropriate children"s programme.

BBC soap EastEnders, that distinguished the 25th anniversary this year, kick The Bill and Casualty in the soap and stability play category.

BBC play The Street, combined by Bafta-winning bard Jimmy McGovern, won the esteem for most appropriate play series. The show was axed last year after the third series, that featured an garb expel together with Stephen Graham and Anna Friel.

Naomie Harris kick Julie Walters and Suranne Jones to the pretension of most appropriate singer for her opening in BBC One"s Small Island.

At the ceremony, that was hosted by Gavin and Stacey star Rob Brydon, she thanked her mother, observant "My silent was my accent coach. Without her I don"t think Hortense would have been half as great as she was."

In a stand in win for the instrumentation of Andrea Levy"s book Small Island, David Oyelowo picked up the endowment for most appropriate actor.

Iain Morris and Damon Beesley won the endowment for humerous party essay for E4 teenage humerous party The Inbetweeners, whilst stand up comic Harry Hill won in the party opening difficulty for ITV"s Harry Hill"s TV Burp.

Actress Miranda Hart won in the humerous party opening difficulty for her pretension purpose in BBC Two humerous party Miranda.

Coronation Street author Tony Warren was since the lifetime feat endowment for his work on the ITV soap, that celebrates the 50th anniversary this December.

Here are the Royal Television Society Awards in full

Scripted humerous party The Thick of It

Entertainment Newswipe with Charlie Brooker

Daytime and early rise programme Come Dine With Me

Arts Baroque

Documentary Wounded

History Garrow"s Law

Constructed significant array Famous, Rich and Homeless

Nations and regions programme A History of Scotland

Features and lifestyle array Heston"s Feasts Heston"s Victorian Feast

Children"s play Roy

Children"s programme Big and Small Blame it on the Drain

Multi-channel programme endowment Dating in the Dark

Presenter Louis Theroux A Place for Paedophiles

International endowment Mad Men

Science & healthy story Inside Nature"s Giants

Soap and stability play EastEnders

Single play Five Minutes of Heaven

Drama array The Street

Drama sequence Unforgiven

Actor (Female) Naomie Harris Small Island

Actor (Male) David Oyelowo Small Island

Writer Drama Peter Bowker Occupation

Writer Comedy Iain Morris & Damon Beesley The Inbetweeners

Entertainment opening Harry Hill Harry Hill"s TV Burp

Comedy opening Miranda Hart Miranda

Judges" Award Norma Percy

Lifetime Achievement Award Tony Warren