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Sheridan Smith at the 2012 Whatsonstage.com Awards
Sheridan Smith at the 2012 Whatsonstage.com Awards

ITV broadcasts 2013 Olivier Awards from Opera House

Date: 29 January 2013

The 2013 Olivier Awards, which take place on 28 April at the Royal Opera House, will be broadcast by ITV and BBC Radio 2.

As last year there will be a free live event for the public, with the event being screened in Covent Garden piazza.

Four-time Whatsonstage.com Awards host Sheridan Smith will be one of the hosts of this year's Oliviers, which are again produced in partnership with Mastercard. Julia McKenzie, another double Olivier Award winner, will provide this year’s Awards voiceover.

The agreed ITV broadcast package includes an Olivier Awards ceremony highlights programme broadcast on the night, shortly after the ceremony ends. Exact broadcast time will be confirmed nearer the date.

Executive producer for the Society of London Theatre will be Julian Bird, and Lee Connolly and Fiona Clark for ITV Studios.

This year also sees the return of the 'BBC Radio 2 Audience Award for the Most Popular Show', the only Olivier  decided by members of the public. Voting was launched on the Elaine Paige on Sunday programme on 27 January and will close on 18 March.

Further details of the Olivier awards ceremony will be announced nearer the date but will include "performances from some of the nominated musicals, tributes to this year's Special Award winners and some very special guests".

Voting in our own Whatsonstage.com Awards - the original, biggest and best audience-voted awards - is open until 31 January. Click here to vote now!

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It is a shame to see ITV have ended up with this show as ITV's will shorten the awards broadcast. The BBC did a good job of broadcasting the awards live on the red button last year after the first year when it truly was awful. That is except for the breaks to see all that rubbish taking place outside the opera house and talking to the public in the market when they should have been concentrating on what was going on on stage inside the opera house. Much better to show the awards live on this without the extra stuff. Just show the blooming show we do not need to see the rest and Elaine Page should if she has to present the really pointless Radio 2 award, for shows that have been running for some time in the west end, present the award during the main show on stage. Not in the Covent Garden market tent stage. - ILS

30 Jan 13


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