TVNZ News & Current Affairs Qantas Award Finalists

TVNZ News & Current Affairs Programmes Take Bulk Of Qantas Award Finalists Placings

Monday 10th August, 2009

The finalists for this year's Qantas Film and Television Awards have been announced and TVNZ’s News and Current Affairs Programmes dominate the nominations taking 23 of the 33 finalist placings.

TVNZ has claimed all three of the finalist placings in three of the 11 categories including Best News or Current Affairs Presenter, Best Current Affairs Reporting (daily programme) and Investigation of the Year.

ONE News (6pm) and Tonight are finalists in the Best News category.

“I believe it’s a testament to the talent and professionalism of our staff that we have done so well in this year’s list of Finalists”, says Head of News and Current Affairs, Anthony Flannery.

“It’s great news that the prestigious category of Best News or Current Affairs Presenter will be fought out in-house between Paul Henry, Kevin Milne and Andrew Saville.”

TVNZ's Close Up has also taken all three nominations for Best Current Affairs Reporting for a daily programme.

The Sunday Programme has taken two of the three nominations for Investigation of the Year, and the Close Up Team has been named as the third finalist in this category for its scrutiny of an Auckland nursing home earlier this year. Producer, Kate McCallum worked under cover as a care-giver in the home and tested positive for the Super Bug following the expose.

“The consistently high quality of our new political show Q+A has been recognised by the Qantas Judges by being named as a finalist in the Best Current Affairs series along with the Sunday Programme.

The Q+A programme acknowledged by the Qantas judges was only the third episode of the highly regarded political show. It featured TVNZ Political Editor, Guyon Espiner interviewing Finance Minister, Bill English and Paul Holmes interviewing former Prime Minister, Helen Clark and her husband Peter Davis.

TVNZ Breakfast presenter, Pippa Wetzell will co-host the Qantas Award’s Gala Night where the winners will be announced on September the 5th at the Civic Theatre in Auckland.

Full list of News and Current Affairs finalists below:

News and Current Affairs Categories
Qantas Best News
3 News (TV3)
One News (TV One)
Tonight (TV One)
Best News or Current Affairs Presenter
Paul Henry – Breakfast (TV One)
Kevin Milne – Fair Go (TV One)
Andrew Saville – One News (TV One)
__Best News Reporting
Guyon Espiner – One News, Ele Peters (TV One)
Duncan Garner – 3 News, Secret Tapes (TV3)
Amanda Gillies – 3 News, Victoria Bush Fires (TV3)
Best Current Affairs Reporting for a weekly programme or one off current affairs special
Pete Cronshaw, Cara Darvill –20/20, Baby Business (TV2)
John Hudson, Stephen Butler, Leander Scott-Donelan, Portia Mao – Sunday, Bad Milk (TV One)
Mike McRoberts, John Stephenson –60 Minutes, Bread Basket/Basket Case (TV3)
Best Current Affairs Reporting for a daily programme
Robyn Janes, Louisa Cleave, Corinne Ambler, Mike Hosking – Close Up, Schools (TV One)
Donna-Marie Lever – Close Up, Family: The Gunman’s Mum (TV One)
Kate McCallum, Louisa Cleave, Michael Holland, Mike Valintine – Close Up, Rest Home (TV One)
Best Current Affairs Series
Native Affairs, Hikoi, Episode 9 (Maori Television)
Q+A, Episode 3 (TV One)
Sunday, Episode 14 (TV One)
Investigation of the Year
John Hudson, Stephen Butler, Leander Scott-Donelan, Portia Mao – Sunday, Bad Milk (TV One)
Kate McCallum, Louisa Cleave, Michael Holland, Mike Valintine – Close Up, Rest Home (TV One)
Ian Sinclair, Dale Owens – Sunday, Dr Disaster 2 (TV One)
Best News Camera
James Marshall – Breakfast, Skifield Prepares to Open (TV One)
Jared Mason – One News, US Election: McCain Campaign (TV One)
Cameron Williams – 3 News, Anzac Day in Tinui and Chatham Islands (TV3)
Best Current Affairs Camera
Scott Behrnes – Campbell Live, Merino (TV3)
Christopher Brown – 20/20, The Amazing Race (TV2)
Patrice Hutchinson – Native Affairs, Tini Whetu I Te Rangi (Maori Television)
Best News Editing
Kirsten Bolam –One News, Ironwoman (TV One)
Tony Clark – One News, National Party candidates in South Auckland (TV One)
Rebecca O’Sullivan – Sunrise/Nightline, Jetboat, Queenstown Artist and Retronude exhibit (TV3)
Best Current Affairs Editing
Paul Enticott –60 Minutes, No Fixed Abode (TV3)
Will Kong – Sunday, 17 Hours (TV One)
Paul Sparkes –Close Up, Rock School (TV One)

ENDS

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