OREANDA-NEWS. May 12, 2016. The Board of Ten Alps is delighted to announce that its television division has won a BAFTA for best factual series with its series 'The Murder Detectives', which ran over three nights on Channel 4 in November.  The ground-breaking programme involved a production team following every twist and turn in a police investigation into the murder of a Bristol teenager.

The same Ten Alps television production unit, Films of Record, also had a second nomination in the same category at the annual awards for 'Great Ormond Street', a series produced for BBC which focussed on the cases of individual children undergoing treatment for life-threatening illness at the London hospital.

The British Academy of Film and Television Awards ('BAFTAs') are recognised as the most prestigious TV and Film awards in the UK and enjoy worldwide recognition. It is rare for a single production company to secure two nominations for the BAFTA finals.

Ten Alps also won two of the categories in the BAFTA Crafts awards, which precede the main BAFTA event and recognise 'behind the scenes' technical excellence in British television, for work on 'The Murder Detectives'. Films of Record's Dave Nath took the award for Director, Factual, and Ben Brown for Editing, Factual.     

Ten Alps had a combined total of eight nominations in the Crafts Awards and main BAFTA awards.

Chief Executive Mark Wood said:

"These awards are a tremendous recognition of the talent we have in our TV business and the edge we have in our creative approach to factual programming, a genre which is commanding bigger audiences and more airtime.  Our strategy is to focus our factual and documentary production businesses on higher-value, returnable series and in particular to secure more commissions in the US. The imprimatur of a BAFTA has as much impact in that market as it does in the UK and will certainly assist our current discussions with broadcasters in both markets."

Ten Alps PLC trades as Zinc Media Group.