Press Release: Miscellaneous Announcements
ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards
Posted at 8:36AM Friday 02 May 2008
ITV3 today announces a six-week Crime Thriller Season, leading up to the first ever televised ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards, which promises to be a glamorous star studded occasion, celebrating crime and thriller fiction from film, TV and books. Cactus Television has secured the full support of major publishers and retailers to ensure this initiative starts as a big event, with posters and stickered books in shops and supermarkets, and adverts for the nominated works in the press. The ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards will be a glittering event at London's Grosvenor Hotel. The awards ceremony will celebrate the crème de la crème of crime fiction with awards focusing on the best of British and International crime thriller novels. Other awards will include the Breakthrough Award for a new author of note. ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards will also celebrate crime fiction off the page with awards focusing on the greatest crime and thriller films and TV drama of the year – along with the actors who brought the characters to life. Each award of the evening will be presented by celebrity faces with a connection to the world of crime fiction – from celebrated authors to actors whose portrayal's are admired the world over. Running up to the glittering ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards will be six weeks of the greatest of crime dramas. Each week will begin with a specially commissioned documentary profiling the six best crime writers working today. The six authors who have been chosen are Colin Dexter, Ian Rankin, PD James, Lynda La Plante, Val McDermid and Ruth Rendell. Viewers of ITV3 will then be able to vote between these authors to select the author who will win the first ITV3 Award for Classic TV Crime Drama. The documentaries will introduce the viewers to the personalities behind the shows, their writing methods, and the fabulous lifestyles their success has bought them. Each documentary will be followed by the very best episodes of the crime shows that came from these great writers. In detailed interviews we will learn how they create their mysteries, what makes them tick and uncover the secrets of what it takes to be a truly great crime writer. We will follow them around the places they write about and discover what research goes into their creations. We will also talk to the famous actors and actresses who have appeared in the shows about the writing and what it is they think makes the show so popular. We will also be talking to other well-known crime writers about their influence and their views on the 6 authors' works. As we learn about the individual authors we will also get a flavour of the genre as a whole and how it has developed over the years and how it continues to change all the time. About the new series, Emma Tennant, Controller of ITV3 and CITV says: "The ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards, and the preceding Crime Thriller Season, are the perfect way for ITV3 to cement it's reputation as the home of great storytelling and, in particular, great crime thrillers. The awards ceremony promises to be a fantastic, star-studded evening celebrating the very best crime thrillers from across the world. I look forward to hearing which characters, series and novels are the nation's favourites, culminating with the ITV3 Viewer's choice award for the top crime author" Amanda Ross, Managing Director of Cactus Television and Executive Producer adds: "This is the most popular genre of fiction, these authors are responsible for some of the most popular entertainment, books, film and TV so it's fantastic to give them the recognition they deserve. The big American authors like John Grisham and Patricia Cornwell have told us there's nothing like this anywhere in the world, so we're expecting strong international support." ITV3 Crime Thriller Season & Crime Thriller Awards are commissioned by Claire Zolkwer, Commissioning Editor, Entertainment on behalf of Emma Tennant, Controller of ITV3 and CITV. The Executive Producer is Amanda Ross and the series is Produced by Gareth Jones.
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