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November 23, 2011, Wednesday
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THE United Kingdom won five International Emmy Awards on Monday as "American Idol" executive producer Nigel Lythgoe received an honorary prize presented by Lady Gaga, who made a surprise appearance.
The Emmys, which honor television produced outside the United States, extended their reach at its 39th annual awards in New York.
While the UK dominated, winning five of 10 competitive categories, including best actress for Julie Walters and best actor for Christopher Eccleston, it was not a sweep as in recent years when it won as many as eight awards.
Belgium, Chile, Portugal, Canada and Sweden each won one award, with Chile winning its first-ever Emmy, for children's programming for "What Is Your Dream?"
Belgium won best comedy series for "Benidorm Bastards," a hidden camera show in which elderly people play tricks on younger folk.
The UK series "Accused," which chronicles the stories of suspects awaiting trial verdicts, was named best drama.
Eccleston won for his role on "Accused" while Walters triumphed for her performance as British Labour MP Mo Mowlam. Neither was on hand to accept their awards.
But the show got an injection of Hollywood glamour when Gaga took to the stage in an unannounced appearance to present the Founders Award to Lythgoe, who is also the executive producer of "So You Think You Can Dance," calling him her favorite executive in the business.
Among other honors, Sweden's "Millennium," a crime-solving drama that pairs an investigative journalist with an anti-social female computer hacker, won best TV movie or miniseries, while Canada won for its documentary, "Life With Murder," about a man accused of murdering his sister.
The arts programming and reality Emmys were both won by the UK's Twenty Twenty Television for the opera-world set "Gareth Malone Goes to Glyndebourne," and "The World's Strictest Parents," in which wild teenagers are sent to live with families run by strict parents.
Subhash Chandra, the media magnate behind India's Essel Group of companies and Founder of ZEE TV, India's first Hindi satellite channel, got the Directorate Award.
The Emmys, which honor television produced outside the United States, extended their reach at its 39th annual awards in New York.
While the UK dominated, winning five of 10 competitive categories, including best actress for Julie Walters and best actor for Christopher Eccleston, it was not a sweep as in recent years when it won as many as eight awards.
Belgium, Chile, Portugal, Canada and Sweden each won one award, with Chile winning its first-ever Emmy, for children's programming for "What Is Your Dream?"
Belgium won best comedy series for "Benidorm Bastards," a hidden camera show in which elderly people play tricks on younger folk.
The UK series "Accused," which chronicles the stories of suspects awaiting trial verdicts, was named best drama.
Eccleston won for his role on "Accused" while Walters triumphed for her performance as British Labour MP Mo Mowlam. Neither was on hand to accept their awards.
But the show got an injection of Hollywood glamour when Gaga took to the stage in an unannounced appearance to present the Founders Award to Lythgoe, who is also the executive producer of "So You Think You Can Dance," calling him her favorite executive in the business.
Among other honors, Sweden's "Millennium," a crime-solving drama that pairs an investigative journalist with an anti-social female computer hacker, won best TV movie or miniseries, while Canada won for its documentary, "Life With Murder," about a man accused of murdering his sister.
The arts programming and reality Emmys were both won by the UK's Twenty Twenty Television for the opera-world set "Gareth Malone Goes to Glyndebourne," and "The World's Strictest Parents," in which wild teenagers are sent to live with families run by strict parents.
Subhash Chandra, the media magnate behind India's Essel Group of companies and Founder of ZEE TV, India's first Hindi satellite channel, got the Directorate Award.
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