U.K. award to John McRae
The head of drama for TV2 (John Mcßae) has won the British Academy of Film and Television Arts award for the best dramalight entertainment show of the year, a six-part series called “Ballet Show.” The programme is a 8.8. C. family drama based on Noel Streatfield’s novel about three orphan girls taken into a ballet school. When telephoned and told he had won the award, Mcßae said it was the last programme he produced
before coming back to New Zealand. “I’ve never seen the show on air — it began in Britain last October, just after I got back here. “I’m sure we’ll get it here — when the 8.8. C. offers it for sale. These things usually take a year or two.” In 1973, Mcßae won a coveted American Emmy for “Tom Brown’s Schooldays,” a 8.8. C. production that ran here last year.
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34107, 20 March 1976, Page 5
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