Awards Success

Steven Moffat (Doctor Who's Lead Writer and Executive Producer) has won the prestigious Judge's Award at the 2010 Royal Television Society Programme Awards. The ceremony was held at London's Grosvenor House Hotel earlier this week on Tuesday, 15 March.

The Sarah Jane Adventures was named Best Children's Drama and discussing the CBBC series, which stars Elizabeth Sladen as the Doctor's former companion, the RTS panel said, 'The winner was emotional and incredibly engaging - a wonderful drama that stands on its own as a terrific piece of storytelling. The cultural diversity of the cast, its high production values and creative storyline made it a joy to watch and kept you intrigued.'

Jim Broadbent (who can be seen in The Curse of Fatal Death) won Best Actor (Male) for his role in Any Human Heart and the Steven Moffat/Mark Gatiss detective show, Sherlock, scooped Best Drama Series.

The RTS panel said a few words about Steven Moffat's accolade, noting, 'The Judges' Award is given for an outstanding contribution to television, and there are few screenwriters in the world whose work boasts the same incredible range as tonight's recipient. Equally at home with horror, detective stories, situation comedy, action adventure and sci-fi, this year's winner is an author in the truest sense of the word... Channelling all that he had learned about structure into shaping mind-bendingly brilliant sci-fi and thriller plots, as well as placing a funny man/straight man pairing at the centre of extraordinary and impossible circumstances, with his friend Mark Gatiss he invited an entirely new audience to claim Holmes and Watson as their own. And in his downtime reinventing Doctor Who to overwhelming critical and ratings success from the get-go. There are few writers who would trade Steven Spielberg and Hollywood to work with the Daleks in Wales but this man did. Indeed, with a seemingly inexhaustible resource of utterly distinctive plots and the ability to use comedy liberally to form a devoted connection with the audience, our winner is living, typing proof of why television remains THE writer's medium.'

Congratulations to Steven Moffat, the entire team behind The Sarah Jane Adventures and all the winners at this year's RTS awards.

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