14th Asian TV Awards - Winners

Asian television industry’s most significant and celebrated event - The Asian Television Awards (ATA), continues to recognize excellence in programming, production and performance of major industry player within the Asia Pacific region through an awards ceremony held last December 3 in Singapore.

Here is the complete list of winners:

Best Documentary Programme (30 mins or less)

Winner - 6420 (now TV, Hong Kong)
Highly Commended - Dan Rivers - Killings Fields: Long Road to Justice (CNN International, Hong Kong)
Highly Commended - Dan Rivers - World's Untold Stories: A Forgotten People (CNN International, Hong Kong)

Best Documentary Programme (31 mins or more)

Winner - Yanomami: The Last Tribe (NHK, Japan)
Highly Commended - PAMIR - Cradled by the Skies (Kansai Telecasting Corporation, Japan)

Best Natural History Or Wildlife Programme Or Docu-Drama

Winner - Wild China (BBC Worldwide, Hong Kong)
Highly Commended - Death of the Megabeasts (Prospero Productions, Australia)

Best News Programme

Winner - Election Counting Day Coverage (IBN 18 Broadcast Limited, India)
Highly Commended - CNN Today (CNN International, Hong Kong)

Best Single News Story/Report

Winner - John Vause - China / Gold Machine (CNN International, Hong Kong)
Highly Commended - Kyung Lah - Japan / Elderly Shoplifters (CNN International, Hong Kong)

Best Drama Series

Winner - The Little Nyonya (MediaCorp Pte Ltd, Channel 8, Singapore)
Winner - 1895 in Formosa (Hakka Television Station, Taiwan)
Highly Commended - The Samurai Gentleman Episode 1: Road to Destiny (NHK, Japan)
Highly Commended - City Homicide Season 2 Episode 2 (Southern Star International, Australia)

Best Single Drama or Television Programme

Winner - Easy Money (Hakka Television Station, Taiwan)
Highly Commended - Scorched (ITV Global Entertainment, Australia)
Highly Commended - Love in the Season of Osmanthus (Hakka Television Station, Taiwan)

Best Comedy Programme

Winner - The Iromonea (Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, Inc., Japan)
Highly Commended - Gag Concert (Korean Broadcasting System, Korea)

Best Current Affairs Programme

Winner - Sunday Report: Sichuan Earthquake One Year On - The Unspeakable Truth (Television Broadcasts Limited, Hong Kong)
Highly Commended - Drugs Business Inside Prison Cell (PT. Cakrawala Andalas Televisi, Indonesia)

Best Children's Programme

Winner - Super Kid Game (Workpoint Entertainment Public Company Limited, Thailand)
Highly Commended - Classroom Genius (Fuji Television Network, Inc, Japan)

Best Entertainment (One-Off/Annual) Special

Winner - My School Rocks Asia Finals 2008 (The Walt Disney Company (SEA) Pte Ltd, Singapore)
Highly Commended - President's Command Performance (Mediacorp Pte Ltd, Channel 5, Singapore)

Best Entertainment Programme

Winner - 26 Hours / Day (Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, Inc., Japan)
Highly Commended - The Best House 1,2,3 - The Discovery of New Da Vinci (Fuji Television Network, Inc, Japan)

Best Game or Quiz Programme

Winner - Run for Money (Fuji Television Network, Inc. / Fuji Creative Corporation, Japan)
Highly Commended - Lharn Phoo Koo E-Joo (Workpoint Entertainment Public Company Limited, Thailand)

Best Music Programme

Winner - Indian Idol Season 4 Episode 1 (Miditech Pvt Ltd, India)
Highly Commended - Hip Korea - Rain (Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific, Singapore)

Best Reality Programme

Winner - Revealed - Chinese New Year (Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific, Singapore)
Highly Commended - Storm Surfers (Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific, Singapore)

Best Infotainment Programme

Winner - The New Anatomy Show (NHK, Japan)
Highly Commended - Hip Korea - Rain (Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific, Singapore)

Best Talk Show

Winner - We The People (NDTV Pvt Ltd, India)
Highly Commended - Blogtv.sg: Who Lives Around You? (MediaCorp Pte Ltd, ChannelNewsAsia, Singapore)

Best Animation

Winner - Little Krishna - Assault of the Lethal Bird (Big Animation Pvt Ltd, India)
Highly Commended - The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill Season 4 (Southern Star International, Australia)

Best Social Awareness Program

Winner - Inside Afghan ER (National Geographic Channel Asia, Singapore)
Highly Commended - Future Makers (Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific, Singapore)
Highly Commended - Ecopolis (Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific, Singapore)

Best Adaptation of an Existing Format

Winner - The Amazing Race Asia, Season 3 Episode 3 (SPE Networks - Asia Pte Ltd, Singapore)
Highly Commended - Project Runway Philippines ( Solar Entertainment Corporation, SBN, Philippines)

Best Cross-Platform Content

Winner - Hip Korea - Rain (Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific, Singapore)
Highly Commended - BITWORLD-Two Rooms: The Past and The Present (NHK, Japan)

Best News Presenter or Anchor

Winner - Martin Soong for Squawk Voice (CNBC Asia Pacific, Singapore)
Highly Commended - Kristie Lu Stout for CNN Today (CNN International, Hong Kong)

Best Current Affairs Presenter

Winner - Anjali Rao for Talk Asia (CNN International, Hong Kong)
Highly Commended - Najwa Shihab for Suafa Anda: The Election Channel Programs (PT. Media Televisi, Indonesia)

Best Entertainment Presenter

Winner -Jon Niermann for Asia Uncut (West Meets East Production, Singapore)
Highly Commended - Phanya Nirunkul for Yok Siam (Workpoint Entertainment Public Company Limited, Thailand)
Highly Commended - Cyrus Sahukar for Hole in the Wall - Season 1, Episode 1 (Turner Entertainment Networks Asia, Hong Kong)

Best Drama Performance By An Actor

Winner -Adrian Pang for Red Thread (MediaCorp Pte Ltd, Channel 5, Singapore)
Highly Commended - Qi Yu Wu for The Little Nyonya (MediaCorp Pte Ltd, Channel 5, Singapore)

Best Drama Performance By An Actress

Winner -Michelle Yim for Moonlight Resonance (Television Broadcasts Limited, Hong Kong)
Highly Commended - Robyn Malcolm for Outrageous Fortune Series 4 (South Pacific Pictures, New Zealand)

Best Comedy Performance By An Actor/Actress

Winner - Chusak Lamsuk for Raberd Thurd Theung (Workpoint Entertainment Public Company Limited, Singapore)
Highly Commended - Michael V for Bubble Gang (GMA Network, Inc., Philippines)
Highly Commended - Chua Enlai for Parental Guidance (Pics Talk Pte Ltd, Singapore)

Best Cinematography

Winner - Lonely Planet: Natural Born Traveller Episode 3 (Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific, Singapore)
Highly Commended - The Way We Live Episode 5: Living in the Shadow of the Volcano (August Pictures Pte Ltd, Singapore)

Best Direction

Winner - All Saints Episode 465 (Seven Network Operations Limited, Australia)
Highly Commended - Sudden Death (National Geographic Channel Asia, Singapore)

Best Editing

Winner - Supermen of Malegaon (NHK, Japan)
Highly Commended - Inside Afghan ER (National Geographic Channel Asia, Singapore)

Best Achievement in HD

Winner - Storm Surfers - Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific (Singapore)
Highly Commended - Inside Afghan ER (National Geographic Channel Asia, Singapore)

Best Terrestrial Channel of the Year

Winner - TBS (Japan)
Highly Commended - TVB Jade (Hong Kong)

Best Cable & Satellite Channel of the Year

Winner - Discovery Channel (Singapore)
Highly Commended - CNN International (Hong Kong)