The National Television Awards 2007 (2007) (TV)

User Rating:

1.5/10   

Release Date:

31 October 2007 (UK)

Plot Keywords:

Awards Show

Cast

Trevor McDonald	...	Himself - Presenter (as Sir Trevor McDonald)
Colin McFarlane	...	Voice Over (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Freema Agyeman	...	Herself
Brian Belo	...	Himself - Audience Member
Vicky Binns	...	Herself - Audience Member
Daniel Boys	...	Himself (archive footage)
Fern Britton	...	Herself - Audience Member
Kelly Brook	...	Herself - Presenter
June Brown	...	Herself - Audience Member
Darcey Bussell	...	Herself - Presenter
Jeremy Clarkson	...	Himself
Sue Cleaver	...	Herself - Audience Member
Charlie Clements	...	Himself - Presenter
Brendan Cole	...	Himself - Presenter
Graham Cole	...	Himself - Audience Member
Charlie Condou	...	Himself - Audience Member
Antony Cotton	...	Himself - Audience Member
Fearne Cotton	...	Herself
Simon Cowell	...	Himself
Mark Cueto	...	Himself - Presenter
Tess Daly	...	Herself - Audience Member
Daniela Denby-Ashe	...	Herself - Audience Member
Matt Di Angelo	...	Himself - Audience Member
Declan Donnelly	...	Himself
Perry Fenwick	...	Himself - Audience Member
Kelvin Fletcher	...	Himself - Audience Member
Dean Gaffney	...	Himself
Nitin Ganatra	...	Himself - Audience Member
Jason Gardiner	...	Himself - Audience Member
Joseph Gilgun	...	Himself - Audience Member
Philip Glenister	...	Himself
Ricky Groves	...	Himself - Audience Member
Lewis Hamilton	...	Himself - Presenter
Richard Hammond	...	Himself
Matt Healy	...	Himself - Audience Member
Harry Hill	...	Himself - Audience Member
Rupert Hill	...	Himself - Audience Member
Amanda Holden	...	Herself - Presenter
Eamonn Holmes	...	Himself - Audience Member
Craig Revel Horwood	...	Himself - Audience Member
Tom Hudson	...	Himself - Audience Member
Mark Indelicato	...	Himself - Presenter
Samantha Janus	...	Herself - Audience Member
Katherine Jenkins	...	Herself - Presenter
Jo Joyner	...	Herself - Audience Member
Vernon Kay	...	Himself - Audience Member
Jeremy Kyle	...	Himself - Audience Member
Marshall Lancaster	...	Himself - Audience Member
Ruth Langsford	...	Herself - Audience Member
Zak Lichman	...	Himself - Audience Member
Matt Lucas	...	Lou
Amanda Marchant	...	Herself - Audience Member
Sam Marchant	...	Herself - Audience Member
Kym Marsh	...	Herself (as Kym Ryder)
Scott Maslen	...	Himself - Audience Member
James May	...	Himself
Steve McFadden	...	Himself - Audience Member
Ant McPartlin	...	Himself
Gemma Merna	...	Herself - Audience Member
Dannii Minogue	...	Herself - Audience Member
Al Murray	...	Himself - Presenter
Tina O'Brien	...	Herself - Presenter
Dermot O'Leary	...	Himself - Audience Member
Sharon Osbourne	...	Herself - Presenter
Roxanne Pallett	...	Herself - Audience Member
Michael Parkinson	...	Himself
Arlene Phillips	...	Herself - Audience Member
Sinitta Renay	...	Herself - Audience Member
Verity Rushworth	...	Herself - Audience Member
Phillip Schofield	...	Himself - Audience Member
Jack P. Shepherd	...	Himself - Presenter
Janet Street-Porter	...	Herself - Audience Member
James Sutton	...	Himself - Audience Member
Matthew Tate	...	Himself - Presenter
David Tennant	...	Himself
Ryan Thomas	...	Himself - Presenter
Gabriel Thomson	...	Himself - Audience Member
David Threlfall	...	Himself - Audience Member
Kara Tointon	...	Herself - Audience Member
Jayne Torvill	...	Herself - Audience Member
Lacey Turner	...	Herself
Zoe Tyler	...	Herself - Audience Member
Phil Vickery	...	Himself - Audience Member
David Walliams	...	Andy
Liz White	...	Herself - Audience Member
Ricky Whittle	...	Himself - Audience Member
Holly Willoughby	...	Herself
Barbara Windsor	...	Herself
Jake Wood	...	Himself - Presenter
Kirsty Young	...	Herself - Presenter

Runtime:

UK:120 min (including commercials)

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

Royal Albert Hall, South Kensington, London, England, UK

Movie Connections:

Follows The National Television Awards (2006) (TV)

A low quality, dull and unnecessary awards ceremony (spoilers for award winners)

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Target audience stuff this awards ceremony. Where maybe the Oscar provide some interest, controversy and debate the overwhelming emotion I felt while watching this was apathy. Or maybe despair or depression but certainly no emotion that would come from involvement or passion (negatively or positively). The reason for this is the fact that almost everyone being nominated is from average shows and giving average performances. The one thing that I will give credit for is that the awards ceremony does not call their awards "best" anything, but rather each award is "most popular this" or "most popular that". This is at least forgivable because nobody could really pretend that any of these shows or people are the best in their field.

Of course this year to suggest that any television awards ceremony is truthful or honest is perhaps to suggest that the awards ceremony is not being true to the nominees. In the background of this ceremony was the shadow of robbery and scandal over premium rate telephone lines – money grabbing at the best of times but close to fraudulent when they are open long after winners have already been selected. This was alluded to but you could tell that everyone just wanted it to go away and Ant & Dec and all the other producers and executive producers getting rich would rather not have it mentioned.

Of course having Trevor MacDonald as the host near-guarantees that any sharp or cutting humour will be absent and indeed it is so. Obviously the producers had never seen Newsknight because MacDonald doesn't have a great delivery and most of his lines fall flat and the "audience reaction" shots are misjudged because nobody is actually laughing. The award categories are depressing because they do include talent show, reality show and entertainment programme as three of the eleven categories. Yes, you heard me – eleven. In a two hour ceremony. This means lots of clips and lots of commercial breaks.

The winners are sort of understandable because this is all voted for by the public and, as we know, the majority doesn't have very discerning taste or demand much from their "art". So it goes without saying that British actors who are brilliant in things like The Wire do not really get much of a mention here. No, Elba and West are very much sidelined by the likes of Dean Gafney and David Tennant. Actually the latter I don't mind so much because Dr Who deserves a bit of praise and it got two awards. However with BBC4 churning out great documentaries you do have to feel a bit sad that Top Gear won "factual programme". Other than Tennant, the acting "honours" went to people from soaps who I had never heard of, so maybe they genuinely are very good. Catherine Tate I have never watched so cannot comment on her winning comedy show and of course I could care less about the awards given to Celebrity, X Factor, Ant & Dec and their Saturday Night Takeaway.

Of course it is all dressed up in glitz and glamour but really the lack of diversity in the shows does make it duller than the lights can make it. Aside from Doctor Who I have never or rarely watch any of these shows and, watching all these clips and seeing the sheep in the audience from the public, I must admit that I'm fine with that. Everyone is in suits here and everyone claps but really the shows are bland an populist with quality being very much second to "giving the people what they want". A low quality, dull and unnecessary awards ceremony.