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Britain Wins 5 International Emmys
Former American Idol judge Simon Cowell received an honorary International Emmy award on Monday at the annual prizes for television produced outside the United States.
Britain won five of the competitive prizes and Portugal took home its first-ever Emmy.
Cowell, who left Fox's hit talent show American Idol after last season, was presented with the Founders Award by News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch, who lauded Cowell as a "peerless executive" who had also boosted Fox's financial fortunes.
While Britain again dominated the 38th annual awards, winning five of the 10 awards, the Emmys were more widely international this year with Romania, Israel, Argentina, South Korea and Portugal, which won the telenovela prize for My Love, all taking home awards.
Top acting honours went to Bob Hoskins for The Street and Helena Bonham Carter for Enid, in which she plays children's author Enid Blyton. Neither was on hand to accept the awards.
The Street, which chronicles the lives of neighbours all living on the same street in Manchester, was named best drama series.
The series, which ran for three years also starred actors including Anna Friel, Matt Smith, Timothy Spall and Jim Broadbent.
In July 2009, Jimmy McGovern announced the programme was ending because of cuts to the Manchester drama department of ITV Studios, which made The Street for the BBC.
Best comedy series went to Israel's Traffic Light, about three friends in their 30s each enmeshed in differing stages of relationships.
Romania's The World According to Ion B., about a homeless man who finds success as a contemporary artist, won for arts programming, while Mom and the Red Bean Cake, a South Korean production about a mother fighting stomach cancer, won the documentary Emmy.
Britain's also won for children's programming for Shaun the Sheep, while Small Islandwas named best TV movie or miniseries.
CQC, Argentina's irreverent look at the week's news, won for non-scripted programming.
The Directorate Award was presented to Lorne Michaels, creator and producer of the long-running NBC comedy show Saturday Night Live, by Jimmy Fallon, one of the show's former stars, and 30 Rock star Alec Baldwin.
British productions were nominated in nine of the 10 categories, missing out in the Telenovela category.
waveguide.co.uk
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