The BBC’s World War I drama Parade’s End has received four honours at this year’s Broadcasting Press Guild Awards. It was named best drama series, stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebecca Hall won best actor and best actress, while Sir Tom Stoppard won the writer’s award for adapting Ford Madox Ford’s novels. The awards, presented in London, were voted for by media journalists. ITV picked up best documentary for its expose on Jimmy Savile, which led to a national inquiry into child abuse. Broadcast in October last year, Exposure: The Other Side of Jimmy Savile showed several interviews with alleged sexual abuse victims of the DJ and TV presenter. It led to a UK-wide police investigation into historical abuse and set off a chain of events that resulted in the departure of the BBC’s then director general, George Entwistle. John Humphrys, whose interview with Entwistle on Radio 4’s Today programme preceded the DG’s resignation later that day, won the Harvey Lee Award for outstanding contribution to broadcasting.
