Birmingham-based TV series My Name is Leon brought home the gold for BBC Two at the C21 International Drama Awards.
The C21 International Drama Awards recognize the best in global scripted creativity through one of the most highly regarded awards shows in the business. The awards are judged by more than 100 of the world’s leading drama commissioners and buyers
Winners: C21 International Drama Awards
My Name is Leon (Douglas Road Productions, Tiger Aspect, Ringside Studios, Vicarious Productions) brought BBC Two the Best TV Movie award. BBC Two also won for Best Returning Comedy-Drama Series with Inside No 9 (BBC Studios).
Pachinko, Apple TV+’s series based on the New York Times bestseller that chronicles the hopes and dreams of a Korean immigrant family across four generations, won Best Non-English-Language Drama Series. It is produced by Media Res and Blue Marble Pictures. Apple TV+ also took home Best English-Language Drama Series for Slow Horses, the spy thriller based on Mick Herron’s Slough House series of novels and produced by See-Saw Films.
Elsewhere, Sort Of, produced by Sphere Media for HBO Max in the US and CBC in Canada, was named Best Comedy-Drama Series, while HBO’s Succession followed up its success in Monday’s Rose d’Or Awards by taking the prize for Best Returning Drama.
The two talent awards went the way of Olivia Colman, who claimed Best Individual Performance in a Drama Series for her role in Sky Atlantic’s Landscapers, and Sarah Kendall who picked up Best Individual Performance in a Comedy-Drama Series for her work on Sky Max’s Frayed.
Welsh-language series Pigeon (Triongl, Cwmni Da, S4C) won the C21 International Drama Series Pitch Competition, while there were joint winners of the Studio21 Drama Series Script Competition: I Am Burd Girl from writer Laurence Turnbull and Clitorati from Jess Edwards.
Finally, the DQ Craft Award went to Maryland, Lucy Kirkwood’s one-off BBC drama starring Zawe Ashton and Hayley Squires.
View the full list of winners here.
Source: www.c21media.net
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