Sky celebrated three BAFTA TV Award wins last night with Sky 1 HD’s A League of their Own, Sky 3D’s David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive 3D and Sky Sports’ coverage of last year’s Ashes all honoured.

With an eighth series set to launch this summer, Sky 1’s high energy supersized sports panel show, A League of Their Own, won the BAFTA TV Award for Comedy and Comedy Entertainment Programme. The show, hosted by James Corden alongside regular team captains Jamie Redknapp and Freddie Flintoff, and permanent panelist Jack Whitehall, has established itself a firm favourite with Sky customers, memorably inventing the ‘Mobot’, ‘tattooing’ One Direction’s Niall Horan, and introducing Olympic skeleton champion Amy Williams to the world of rally co-driving along the way. 

Sky 3D’s David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive 3D won the BAFTA for Specialist Factual.  Fulfilling a lifelong dream of the nation’s favourite naturalist, Natural History Museum Alive 3D is the result of a collaboration with the scientists of the Natural History Museum. Featuring ground-breaking 3D technology and spectacular CGI effects, the film was written and presented by David Attenborough and produced by Colossus Productions, a partnership set up between Sky 3D and Atlantic Productions to develop original 3D programming for both UK and international audiences. 

Last night’s win marks the second Specialist Factual BAFTA TV Award as a result of this successful ongoing partnership, with David Attenborough’s Flying Monsters 3D winning in the same category in 2011.  David Attenborough’s seventh project for Sky 3D, David Attenborough’s Conquest of the Skies 3D, is in production at the moment for broadcast on Sky 3D this Christmas.

Completing the hat trick of awards, Sky Sports won the BAFTA for Best Sport and Live Event for its coverage of the final day of the first Ashes Test last summer. Last night's win follows a number of other recent awards successes for Sky Sports, including best sports programme for its Ryder Cup coverage at the Broadcast Awards, best digital platform for Sky Sports Digital Media at the Sports Industry Awards and two RTS Awards for its coverage of the last year's Ashes and Sky Sports’ Gary Neville.

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Matt Beake
Corporate Communications, Sky
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