They’re your prize guys
SO, HAVE you done it yet? The deadline is midday today, remember, and if you miss it then I’d imagine you’re going to kick yourself.And then you’ll fall over. I’m talking, of course about casting your vote – or, rather, votes – in time for tonight’s NATIONAL TELEVISION AWARDS at which a coveted if unsightly trophy will once again be handed to the winner in each of 14 publicly polled categories.
Hosted for the first time by DavidWalliams (replacing Dermot O’Leary for reasons which reportedly may have something to do with a little joke Dermot made about Ant and Dec, but most likely just confirming that he’d rather stay in and watch Holby), it sees the good, the great and the decidedly average descending on London’s O2, all hoping to receive the ultimate seal of approval from the viewing public.
Needless to say, I’ve already been online to cast my own votes.
And I’m jolly glad I did, because once the process is complete a little picture of a grinning David Walliams flashes up, accompanied by a message saying: “Thank you. The award for brilliant voting goes to YOU!” which makes me go all fuzzy inside.
And would you like to hear who I voted for? No, of course you wouldn’t.
Why on earth would you give two hoots?
But I’ll eat my hat, although obviously not the grey one I got for Christmas, if honours don’t go to Sky’s drama Chernobyl, the BBC’s Killing Eve and Ricky Gervais’s Netflix comedy After Life.
Oh, and will Ant and Dec win the TV Presenter award for the 19th year on the trot? Dermot will be gutted if they don’t.
Also live tonight is the first in the new series of WINTERWATCH
with Chris Packham, Michaela Strachan, Gillian Burke and IoloWilliams.
For the next four nights they’ll be broadcasting (for the final time) from the Cairngorms National Park, even though it’s stupidly cold there, looking at how the wildlife is coping with the season’s traditional challenges.
There’ll be nightly reports on how the climate is utterly stuffed and it’s all our fault (OK, I’m guessing, but I’m unlikely to be wrong, aren’t I?).
There’ll also be more of those live wildlife streams I’m told are enjoyed by audiences as far away as France,America and India (how lovely, perhaps they’d like to pay for them).
But the bits I’m looking forward to most are the Squirrel Jump and World’s Strongest Badger competition.
These are part of the show’s Animal Winter Olympics, and presumably a pilot for when BBC loses the rights to the human ones.