Channel 4 triumphs at Grierson documentary awards

Channel 4 has won a trio of awards at the prestigious Grierson Documentary Awards with Hugh's Fish Fight, True Stories: Body Snatchers of New York and The Arbor all celebrating a win.

The acclaimed Hugh's Fish Fight picked up the award for Best Documentary series, and was commended for being "a brilliant piece of campaigning journalism and incredibly, managed to make fish interesting.  With great passion, craft values and genuine integrity, it achieved something few TV series do: real impact."

True Stories: Body Snatchers of New York won the Best Current Most Entertaining Documentary. The programme won praise from the jury for its "gripping and elegant account of the macabre story of a funeral parlour that traded in selling human tissue and bone without relatives' consent.  The lighting, the sound, the camerawork, the editing were all outstanding. Access to the main players in the story was remarkable.  Above all, the storytelling was judged just right."

The critically acclaimed film The Arbor, for More4, which told the story of tragic playwright Andrea Dunbar, won the award for Best Cinema Documentary. The jury chairman summarised the jurors' thoughts saying: "The Arbor ambushes you in a good way.  This is a moving and truly original film whose courageous creative approach makes a lasting impact."