Critics love Russell
Brand picks up another award
Russell Brand has been named best TV performer by a panel of professional critics.On accepting his award at the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards, Brand said he was honoured to receive an award from ‘an organisation that, before I got this bit of paper, I didn't know existed’.
He also criticised the name of his award ‘for best TV performer in a non-acting role’ by saying: ‘Every last word in that is a devaluation of the actual achievement. It's like Best Non-Acting Performer... On A Wednesday.’
Meanwhile The Royle Family’s Queen of Sheba special was named best comedy or entertainment show.
And Paul Whitehouse’s spoof Radio 4 phone-in Down The Line was named radio programme of the year
Stephen Fry won the documentary award for The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive, and thanked the TV industry ‘for making such dross most of the time. It makes my work look so much better’.
Published: 23 Mar 2007
