{"id":764,"date":"2022-08-01T15:02:29","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T14:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/tvresearchgroup\/?page_id=764"},"modified":"2024-04-30T16:19:18","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T15:19:18","slug":"critical-awards-in-television","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/tvresearchgroup\/critical-awards-in-television\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical Awards in Television 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Chris Packham wins the Critical Award in Television 2024<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Chris Packham\u2019s documentary Is it Time to Break the Law?<\/em><\/a> has won the Critical Award in Television (CATS) for its ability to draw attention to the climate crisis. Addressing the audience at Edge Hill University, Chris Packham thanked his director Adrian Sibley, the team at Proper Content and Channel 4 for their support in bringing the documentary together. The programme asks difficult questions about what can be done to get the message across that we need to do more about climate change.<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
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Chris Packham highlighted that he thought television could do more to drive the message home, including through drama and other genres, and he called on the students to press on: \u2018I’m very much of the mind that the future belongs to those young people, and we should give it to them. That doesn’t just mean listening to them in a patronising way; it means directly empowering them. I have enormous faith in youth. Youth is clear thinking. Youth is clear speaking and youth, importantly, is not risk averse.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The Critical Awards in Television also celebrated students who had made their own films on climate change. The best 2-minute programme made by a school student was won by now 16-year-old Thomas Grindy<\/a> who emphasised the importance of growing your own to more sustainable ways of living. He was given his award for a film that made \u2018brilliant use of the apocalyptic, the intergenerational, the poetic to provide us with something like hope, a mix, something like despair\u2019 as Head of Department of English & Creative Arts, Matthew Pateman, stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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