Alternative Top TV Gala Evening!

On Friday 7 March
Tyneside Cinema at Gateshead Old Town Hall
20:30 - 22:00
£5 / £4

AV Festival 08 are handing the big screen over to the public on Friday 7th March from 8.30pm for an evening that promises to be an audiovisual delight!

So few of the '100-best' late night telly marathons seem to reflect the television that the general public really love. So AV Festival organisers created their own Alternative Top TV poll, to decide which truly brilliant British TV show to screen at this unique event.

This gala screening at the Tyneside Cinema - complete with an exclusive wine reception - will show the favourite British TV programme as voted by the general public.

The evening will be hosted by Ingrid Hagemann who previously worked in the North East as a radio presenter for 16 yrs and now hosts the 'Netball Super league' and Womens International Sport for Sky Sports. She is also Charities Ambassador for the Peoples Postcode Lottery in the UK.

An informed panel of entertaining guests will discuss the 12 nominations and say a word about their own favourite TV programmes in an informal discussion preceding the screening of the winning television show.

Guests include Andrew Dixon, Chief Executive, Newcastle Gateshead Initiative; David Haley, MD of Music Management Company Comet Music; Steve Drayton, Producer, The Afternoon Show, BBC Radio Newcastle & stand-up comedian; Barbara Gubbins, Chief Executive of the Children's Foundation; Adam Lopardo, Director, The Sponsors Club for Arts & Business; Roger Tames, Head of Sports Programmes for Nova International, formerly a presenter on ITV Tyne Tees; Michael Chaplin - TV writer of Monarch of the Glen, Dalziel and Pascoe & Wild at Heart and Mark Murray - Producer for many of Channel 4's 'Greatest 100 TV....' show programmes.

Come along for an evening of relaxed fun and laughter and to find out what the winning programme is!

The 12 nominated shows for Alternative Top TV are:

  • The Blue Planet (Natural history documentary, BBC, 2001)
  • The Buddha of Suburbia (Drama miniseries, BBC, 1993)
  • Early Doors (Sitcom, BBC, 2003)
  • Louis Theroux: When Louis met Jimmy (Documentary, BBC, 2000)
  • The Office (Mockumentary, BBC, 2001)
  • Peep Show (Sitcom, Channel 4, 2003)
  • The Power of Nightmares (Documentary, BBC, 2004)
  • The Prisoner (science-fiction drama, ITV, UK, 1967-1968)
  • Queer as Folk (Comedy drama, Channel 4, 1999)
  • Red Dwarf (Sci-fi sitcom, BBC, 1988)
  • Shameless (Comedy Drama, Channel 4, 2004)
  • Spaced (Sitcom, Channel 4, 1999)