Asian TV Awards 2011- Scored Runners up for Best Documentary Series!!!

About 2 weeks ago I was pleasantly surprised to find out the documentary series I hosted for Discovery Taiwan was nominated for Best Documentary Series at this years Asian TV Awards. Always up for an awards night anyway, so was very happy to be invited to join the Discovery table tonight.

This year it was held at the Shangri La Hotel, and they did a fantastic job with the menu – A lot of seafood and fish which was great! Only thing missing for me was juice! Entertainment included local funk hip hop group Sixx and an all girl dance group.

With Dominic Lau (E News Asia) and Joanne (LI TV Asia)

The best part as always was the chance to catch up with friends and make some new ones! Got to see Alaric Tay and Chua Enlai from the Noose (They won Best Comedy Program and were both runner up to Best Comedy Performance by an actor), Anthony Morse (His program – Hidden Cities on History was nominated for Best General Entertainment ) Dominic Lau & Oli Pettigrew (Both nominated for Best Entertainment Host), Henry Golding (His show was nominated for ), Jourdan Lee (Nominated for best Actor in a leading role), Linda Black (Co-host for the evening with her hubby Oli) and Rebecca Lim (Who was a Guest presenter on the evening). Click here to see all Asian TV Awards 2011 the nominations.

Also caught up with Kav, who worked on our documentary “Eye on Taiwan : The Search for Lost Happiness and the Search for Lost Fertility for Discovery. We got nominated for best Documentary Series which was awesome. Was was even more awesome, was we actually were runners up – scoring a “Highly Commended” Status. Congrats to the production team Samsara Films, Chandi Jayawickrama, Karina Holden, Kavitha, Joyce Huang, August, Umesh, the rest of the team and Discovery Networks!! Click here to see all the Asian TV Awards 2011 winners!

It was also fantastic to to meet many of the hardworking creatives and business heads behind the scenes.

Big thanks to Discovery Networks Asia Pacific for their kind invitation to join them and Congrats to Discovery for their 3 Wins!!! All in all a great night to celebrate Asian TV!

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With Discovery Networks Asia Showing off their 3 Trophies for 2011

With Alaric Tay and Chua Enlai, The Noose Best Comedy Program Winners

With TV Host Henry Golding

Eye on Taiwan – Search for Lost Fertility – Best Documentary Series 2011 Runners Up!!! – Highly Commended:)

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