THE YEAR’S BEST TV RECOGNISED AT THE VENICE TV AWARD
Two weeks after the Venice Film Festival international jurors met in Venice for the Venice TV Award 2022.
The Venice TV Awards, which recognises the year’s best television, has announced the 2022 winners. Two weeks after the Venice Film Festival, international jurors met in Venice for this annual event. The Awards, which is supported by the International Music + Media Centre [IMZ], the European Group of Television Advertising [EGTA], and the Association of Commercial TV [ACT], celebrates the past years televisual masterpieces.
Presided over by a jury of leading TV experts, the Venice TV Award saw trophies handed out to international TV shows across 16 separate categories; TV Series, TV Movie, Performing Arts, Documentary, Light Entertainment, News, Program Promotion, Branded Entertainment, Sports, Children/Youth, Comedy, Reality TV, Technical Quality, Cross-Platform, Telenovela and New Talent.
Sky Atlantic’s Landscapers, a four-part series dramatising the real-life story of murderous married couple Susan and Christopher Edwards, and staring Olivia Coleman and David Thewlis, was handed the award for Best TV Series.
Sky triumphed elsewhere as Life & Rhymes, a diverse and original show which draws the viewer into an invisible world of spoken word, won in Light Entertainment, while Romeo & Juliet, the National Theatre’s first attempt at a film production, won in the Performing Art category.
A fourth win came in the Children/Youth category and went to COP26: In Your Hands, a documentary giving a voice to a diverse group of young people, allowing them to air their concerns over climate change.
Other winners on the night included UK broadcaster Channel 4, which was rewarded in Best TV Film for Help, a programme staring Stephen Graham and Jodie Comer in which a young care worker forms an unlikely bond with a care home resident living with early onset dementia.
ITV News won in the News category for its coverage last year of the storming of the US Capitol building, while the winner in the Comedy category was HBO Max for Minx, a show about the first erotic magazine for women.
The Documentary category was won by French broadcaster Canal+ for Invincible, its portrait of the footballing pioneer Arsène Wenger, who changed the landscape of the English Premier League. Globo Network from Brazil won in Program Promotion.
There were 27 nominees from countries including the UK, Germany, USA, Brazil, India, France, Japan, Sweden, Italy, Canada and South Africa, among many other. One overall winner was chosen for each of the 16 different categories.
“The core of the future of TV lies in the development and production of high-quality stories and original content. Being able to see and judge high-quality engaging content at The Venice TV Award, is what makes this award so important and so relevant,” stated Karim Bartoletti, Executive Board Member of the Italian Association of Production Companies and Partner/Executive Producer at Italian production company, Indiana.
Full List of Gold Winners Venice TV Award 2022
TV SERIES
Landscapers – Sky Atlantic, United Kingdom – Production: SISTER in association with South of the River Pictures
TV FILM
Help – Channel 4, United Kingdom – Production: The Forge Entertainment, One Shoe Films
COMEDY
Minx – HBO Max, United States – Production: Lionsgate Television, Feigco Entertainment
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Arsène Wenger: Invicible – Canal+, France – Production: Federation Entertainment, Noah Media Group, Yvette Production
CHILDREN / YOUTH
COP26: In Your Hands – Sky Kids, United Kingdom – Production: Fresh Start Media Productions
REALITY TV
Love on the Spectrum U.S. – Netflix, United States – Production: Northern Pictures
NEWS COVERAGE
ITV NEWS: The Storming of the Capitol – ITV, United Kingdom – Production: ITN/ITV News
PROGRAM PROMOTION
ONAIR GLOOB – GLOOB, Brazil – Production: Globo
BEST OF TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION
Inaccessible Cities – Al Jazeera, Qatar – Production: AJ Contrast, Al Jazeera Digital
PERFORMING ARTS
Romeo & Juliet – Sky Arts, United Kingdom – Production: National Theatre in association with Sabel Productions/Cuba Pictures
CROSS PLATTFORM PROGRAMMING
Clara Henry – The revenge – Sveriges Television AB/SVTPlay, Sweden – Production: Sveriges Television
LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT
Life & Rhymes – Sky Arts, United Kingdom – Production: CPL Production
TELENOVELA
Festa é Festa (Life’s a Party) – TVI, Portugal – Production: Plural Entertainment
SPORT
Kiyou’s Kata – Kansai Television, Japan
BRANDED ENTERTAINMENT
LEGO Masters USA – FOX, United States – Production: Endemol Shine North America and Tuesday’s Child
NEW TALENT
In Harmony – Markus Øvre – University for the Creative Arts, United Kingdom