Last night, ITV played host to the annual National Television Awards, and whilst Doctor Who failed to scoop up any awards, David Tennant (The 10th Doctor), picked up the coveted 'Special Recognition' Award.
Tennant, who was sat in the audience with his wife (and Doctor Who actress) Georgia Moffett, seemed genuinely shocked and surprised to have won the award.
Check out the entire David Tennant segment from last night's awards in the player, below:
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Doctor Who and Matt Smith both won awards for the categories they were nominated in at this years National Television Awards.
Doctor Who won the award for Drama, beating off competition from Downton Abbey, Broadchurch and Call The Midwife.
Matt Smith won the award for Drama Performance, beating off competition from Martin Clunes (Doc Martin), Maggie Smith (Downton Abbey) and Miranda Hart (Call The Midwife).
Smith couldn't attend in person to accept the award, with Steven Moffat and Jenna Coleman accepting it on his behalf. Matt recorded a thank you video, which you can view below:
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Doctor Who failed to win any of the categories it was nominated in at this years National Television Awards.
Doctor Who was nominated in the Drama category, but lost out to Downton Abbey.
Matt Smith was nominated in the Drama Performance: Male category, but lost out to Melin star, Colin Morgan.
Karen Gillan was nominated in the Drama Performance: Female category, but lost out to Call the Midwife star, Miranda Hart.
Doctor Who wasn't totally ignored though, as I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here - (featuring Colin Baker - The 6th Doctor) - won the Entertainment Programme category.
This marks the second year in a row since the show's return in 2005 where Doctor Who has failed to pick up any awards at the NTAs. On a more positive note though, how many shows featured at this years awards will ever claim to celebrate a 50th Anniversary :)
MSN UK Entertainment have released a video (which you can watch below) with stars chatting about Doctor Who and Sherlock:
Mattavid Tennant is taking a double starring role as twin teachers at rival schools in Nativity 2, a sequel to Debbie Isitt's 2009 UK hit comedy.
Matt Smith (The 11th Doctor) and Karen Gillan (Amy Pond) have both scooped up an award at this year's National Television Awards.
Matt won in the Best Drama Performance - Male category, and Karen won in the Best Drama Performance - Female category. Doctor Who failed to pick up the award for Best Drama, losing out to ITV1's Downton Abbey.
There was some mild controversy backstage as Matt Smith was quoted talking to the Radio Times as saying "I've got a year of Who left", but later amended the statement, speaking to the BBC Entertainment News team stating he has "no plans to leave [Doctor Who]", and that he has "No idea who the next companion will be".
[Sources: NTA; Radio Times; BBC Entertainment News]
Doctor Who failed to win the Best Drama & Best Drama Performance categories at this years National Television Awards.
The Best Drama award, which the show has won for the past 5 consecutive years, instead went to Waterloo Road, in a shock twist that even the bookies couldn't predict.
Even the Best Drama Performance category failed to snag the show an award for Matt Smith, who lost out to David Jason.
Clearly this is a shock for fellow fans, especially as the show has ranked so highly at the awards in previous years.
There was, however, solace in the form of a 3-minute Doctor Who sequence at the be
ginning of the show, which featured Matt Smith and Dermot O'Leary. A search on YouTube for 'NTA Doctor Who 2011' will bring up the video.
Regardless of the outcome, it is DWO's opinion that Series Five was one of the finest for Doctor Who to date, with excellent writing, a fantastic cast, and a painstakingly hard working production team to boot. Chins up guys and gals - you were robbed!
The nominations were voted for by the public and the winners announced live on television earlier this evening.
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Tonight sees the announcement of the winners at the 2011 National Television Awards, where Doctor Who features in two categories:
Best Drama - Doctor Who
Best Drama Performance - Matt Smith, Karen Gillan
Regardless of the outcome, however, Doctor Who fans will be treated to a short Doctor Who themed sketch, in which Matt Smith and Dermot O'Leary travel in the TARDIS to the EastEnders and Coronation Street sets.
+ The National Television Awards, airs at 7:30pm on ITV1.
[Source: Steven Day]
