{"id":312599,"date":"2011-03-16T01:46:42","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T01:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/16\/double-rts-wins-for-cox-and-hart\/"},"modified":"2011-03-16T01:46:42","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T01:46:42","slug":"double-rts-wins-for-cox-and-hart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/16\/double-rts-wins-for-cox-and-hart\/","title":{"rendered":"Double RTS wins for Cox and Hart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"108.395047833\">\n        \t\t  <span><br \/>\n    <span>15 March 2011<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Last updated at <\/span><span>21:46 ET<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Pop star turned academic Professor Brian Cox was a double winner at the Royal Television Society Awards.<\/p>\n<p>The physicist won best presenter and took the science and natural history prize for Wonders Of The Solar System.<\/p>\n<p>Also taking two prizes was comedian Miranda Hart, who has won huge acclaim for her BBC sitcom Miranda. <\/p>\n<p>Jim Broadbent was named best actor for his role in Channel 4&#8217;s Any Human Heart, while Vicky McClure got best actress for C4&#8217;s This Is England &#8217;86.<\/p>\n<p>The series, which continued the story of characters first seen in Shane Meadows&#8217; film This Is England, was also the winner of the best drama writer prize, shared by Meadows and Jack Thorne.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC took the lion&#8217;s share of the awards, on Tuesday evening, with ITV taking two &#8211; the best entertainment performance for Ant and Dec and the entertainment title, which went to The X Factor.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Bennett-Jones, the comedy agent and founder of the Tiger Aspect production company, was given the lifetime achievement award.<\/p>\n<p>Cox beat newspaper editor turned CNN talk show host Piers Morgan and BBC Radio 1&#8217;s Reggie Yates to win best presenter.<\/p>\n<p>Cox began his career as a rock star, when his band Dare signed a deal with A&#038;M records in 1986. <\/p>\n<p>He later joined D&#8217;Ream, whose song Things Can Only Get Better was famously used by Tony Blair as the Labour Party election song in 1997.<\/p>\n<div>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-12755524#story_continues_2\">Continue reading the main story<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n<h2>RTS AWARDS 2011<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li> <strong>Presenter<\/strong>: Professor Brian Cox &#8211; Wonders of the Solar System (BBC Two)<\/li>\n<li> <strong>Actor (Male)<\/strong>: Jim Broadbent &#8211; Any Human Heart (C4)<\/li>\n<li> <strong>Actor (Female)<\/strong>: Vicky McClure &#8211; This is England &#8217;86 (C4)<\/li>\n<li> <strong>Entertainment<\/strong>: The X Factor (ITV1)<\/li>\n<li> <strong>Drama Series<\/strong>: Sherlock (BBC One)<\/li>\n<li> <strong>Lifetime Achievement Award<\/strong>: Peter Bennett-Jones<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- pullout-links--><\/div>\n<p>Cox studied at Manchester University while he was in the band, and in 2009, became a professor of particle physics at the same university.<\/p>\n<p>He has since gone on to become a radio and TV presenter. <\/p>\n<p>Hart collected the prize for best comedy performance and her show landed the award for best scripted comedy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m really thrilled because I don&#8217;t really like writing &#8211; I find it really hard work,&#8221; she said as she collected her scriptwriting prize.<\/p>\n<p>The best soap prize went to EastEnders, beating Coronation Street in its 50th year. But a BBC Four film looking at how the soap made it to the screen, The Road To Coronation Street, took the prize for best single drama.<\/p>\n<p>Following huge critical acclaim and audience numbers, ITV1&#8217;s Downton Abbey was left empty-handed, losing out on the drama series prize to BBC One&#8217;s Sherlock.<\/p>\n<p>The man behind Sherlock and the creative force on Doctor Who, Steven Moffat, was also given the judges&#8217; award for his outstanding contribution to TV.<\/p>\n<p>BBC One&#8217;s Five Daughters, which portrayed the real-life stories of a group of women working as prostitutes, who were murdered in Ipswich in 2006, was named best drama serial.<\/p>\n<p>The comedy writer prize was awarded for BBC series Getting On, starring and co-written by Jo Brand, which follows nurses looking after geriatric and terminally ill patients.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, CBBC show Horrible Histories won the children&#8217;s programme title.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read this article:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/news\/entertainment-arts-12755524\" title=\"Double RTS wins for Cox and Hart\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Double RTS wins for Cox and Hart<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 15 March 2011 Last updated at 21:46 ET Pop star turned academic Professor Brian Cox was a double winner at the Royal Television Society Awards. 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