English Entertainment
BBC wins two interactive Baftas
MUMBAI: The BBC scooped two trophies at the 2003 Bafta Interactive Awards. One was for the Celebdaq website and the other was for the interactive radio drama Dark House.
Celebdaq is the virtual stock exchange website which allows users to buy and sell shares in celebrities. It won in the Online Entertainment category for the best use of the internet to deliver a pure entertainment experience.
Celebdaq was created by the BBC’s Interactive Drama & Entertainment department. It was one of the first BBC online formats to successfully transfer to television, becoming a series on BBC Three.
Meanwhile Dark House invites listeners inside the heads of its three protagonists and, at regular three-minute ‘switching points’, allowed them to change the perspective of the drama by voting by text or by telephone. The show is a joint production between BBC New Media’s creative research and development team, BBC Radio and Music Interactive, Radio 4 and Radio Drama.
