Content Innovation Awards

Endemol Shine Group and Kew Media were among the stand-out winners at the fifth Content Innovation Awards here in Cannes, while Sky picked up the Best Debut Drama Series award for its hit show Chernobyl. At a packed event at the Majestic Hotel, Chernobyl beat off finalists including Benedict Cumberbatch-starring Patrick Melrose and Bavaria Fiction’s Das Boot to take home the coveted scripted prize, with judges describing the show as “seminal television”. Produced in association with HBO and from Sister Pictures, The Mighty Mint and Word Games, Chernobyl tracks the disaster at the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in 1986, with the judging panel adding that the show was “innovative to the core.” See my cameo at the end!