Seven Emmy awards go to British productions
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NEW YORK - The time-traveling detective show "Life on Mars" picked up its second International Emmy for best drama series, leading a British sweep of seven of the 10 awards handed out Monday night at a ceremony that also honored "Law & Order" creator Dick Wolf.
Sam Waterston, who plays prosecutor Jack McCoy, presented the special International Emmy Founders Award to Wolf, thanking his boss for bringing "order into my life" by giving him steady employment for nearly 15 years.
Britain's David Suchet received the best actor Emmy for the TV film "Maxwell," about the final months of corrupt media tycoon Robert Maxwell's life. Best actress honors went to Lucy Cohu for the true-life drama "Forgiven," about a suburban housewife who reports her husband to authorities for sexually abusing their daughter and later decides to rebuild their lives together.
"The I.T. Crowd," which centers on the world of socially awkward information technology geeks working for a British corporation, won in the comedy category.
The latest Emmy was for the show's second and final season, which wrapped up the mystery of how time-traveling detective Sam Tyler, played by John Simm, ended up trapped in 1973 after a car crash.
The other British winners included "Strictly Bolshoi" (arts programming), the story of the first English male choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, creating an original work for Moscow's famed Bolshoi Ballet; the animated "Shaun the Sheep" (children & young people), and "The Beckoning Silence" (documentary) recounting a mountaineer's failed battle for survival in the Swiss Alps.
The winners were chosen from among 40 nominees from 16 countries competing for International Emmys, honoring excellence in TV programming produced outside the United States, in 10 categories.
The British monopoly was broken in the non-scripted entertainment category where the Emmy went to the controversial Dutch hoax-reality show, "The Big Donor Show."
Also, Jordan and Argentina made their mark by picking up their first-ever International Emmys.
Jordan was the surprise winner in the newly established Telenovela category for "Al-Igtiyah" (The Invasion), a love story about a Palestinian caught up in the chaos and destruction of the large-scale 2002 Israeli military incursion into the West Bank.
Argentina's "Television por la identidad" won in the TV movie/mini-series category.
The awards were presented by The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the largest organization of global broadcasters.
Britain's David Suchet received the best actor Emmy for the TV film "Maxwell," about the final months of corrupt media tycoon Robert Maxwell's life. Best actress honors went to Lucy Cohu for the true-life drama "Forgiven," about a suburban housewife who reports her husband to authorities for sexually abusing their daughter and later decides to rebuild their lives together.
"The I.T. Crowd," which centers on the world of socially awkward information technology geeks working for a British corporation, won in the comedy category.
The latest Emmy was for the show's second and final season, which wrapped up the mystery of how time-traveling detective Sam Tyler, played by John Simm, ended up trapped in 1973 after a car crash.
The other British winners included "Strictly Bolshoi" (arts programming), the story of the first English male choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, creating an original work for Moscow's famed Bolshoi Ballet; the animated "Shaun the Sheep" (children & young people), and "The Beckoning Silence" (documentary) recounting a mountaineer's failed battle for survival in the Swiss Alps.
The winners were chosen from among 40 nominees from 16 countries competing for International Emmys, honoring excellence in TV programming produced outside the United States, in 10 categories.
The British monopoly was broken in the non-scripted entertainment category where the Emmy went to the controversial Dutch hoax-reality show, "The Big Donor Show."
Also, Jordan and Argentina made their mark by picking up their first-ever International Emmys.
Jordan was the surprise winner in the newly established Telenovela category for "Al-Igtiyah" (The Invasion), a love story about a Palestinian caught up in the chaos and destruction of the large-scale 2002 Israeli military incursion into the West Bank.
Argentina's "Television por la identidad" won in the TV movie/mini-series category.
The awards were presented by The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the largest organization of global broadcasters.